Rio 2016 comes to an end and so now does "Rule 40"

So, here goes....

Well done to:

Adam Peaty - GOLD - 100m breaststroke

Adam Peaty, British Gas Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2013

Jack Laugher & Chris Mears - GOLD - 3m synchronised springboard
Jack Laugher -  SILVER - Men's 3m springboard

 

Jack Laugher (top), Chris Mears, British Gas Diving Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2012

Nicola Adams - GOLD - Women's flyweight boxing

Nicola Adams, Team England Boxing - Commonwealth Games 2014

Mo Farah - GOLD - 5,000m and 10,000m

Mo Farah, British Athletics Grand Prix, NIA Birmigham 2013

Bradley Wiggins - GOLD - Men's team pursuit cycling

Bradley Wiggins, Tour of Britain, Derbyshire 2012

Ed Clancy - GOLD - Men's team pursuit cycling

Ed Clancy, Sheffield Grand Prix Cycling 2013

Jazz Carlin - SILVER - Women's 400m freestyle swimming, Women's 800m freestyle swimming

Jazz Carlin, Swim 4 Leukaemia, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2014

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor - SILVER - Women's 200m individual medley

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, British Gas Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2013

Joe Joyce - SILVER - Men's super heavyweight

Joe Joyce, Team England Boxing - Commonwealth Games 2014

Jessica Ennis-Hill - SILVER - Heptathlon

Jessica Ennis-Hill, London Olympics home-coming, Sheffield 2012

Tom Daley & Dan Goodfellow - BRONZE - Men's synchronised 10m platform

 Dan Goodfellow (right) and Ross Haslam, British Gas Diving Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2012

Tom Daley, British Gas Diving Championships 2012

Greg Rutherford - BRONZE - Men's long jump

Greg Rutherford, Great City Games, Manchester 2016

4x100m relay team - BRONZE - Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita

4x100m relay team, Anniversary Games, London 2016

4x400m relay team - BRONZE - Christine Ohuruogu, Emily Diamond, Eilidh Doyle and Anyika Anoura

Emily Diamond, British Championships, Birmingham 2016

Not forgetting Katarina Johnson-Thompson and the great performances that she has put in this year

Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Anniversary Games, London 2016

Oh, and good luck to:

Hannah Cockroft 

Hannah Cockroft, IPC Grand Prix, London 2016

Ellie Simmonds

Ellie Simmonds, British Gas Swimming Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 2013

Which goes to show that you don't have to go to Rio to photograph top athletes in action. Sometimes they are there on your doorstep.  So, get out there and get shooting!

It’s 500 days to go until the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

This week marks 500 days to go until Rio de Janeiro hosts the 31st Olympiad on Friday 5th August 2016.

London 2012 exceeded everyone's expectations - the crowds, the atmosphere and the performances - 29 golds, 17 silver and 19 bronze which took us to third behind only the US and China.

Boxer Joe Joyce who won the Super-Heavyweight crown at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has set his sights on adding the Olympic title as well.

Seb Coe and his team built on the roller-coaster of the winning bid to lead a world-class games experience.  Three years down the line we are still enjoying the effects of sports participation and British athletes doing well.  The Olympic park is being transformed into a lasting legacy and I look forward to be at the stadium again this year for the Anniversary Games.

Team England reveal Boxing squad for Commonwealth Games

Nicola Adams looks to make history for a second time as female boxing makes its debut in the Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games England have today announced the boxing team that will compete for England at the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (23 July – 3 August 2014).

The team is made-up of eight men and three women who will make history by competing in the first ever Commonwealth Games to feature female boxing.

The three female selections are 2012 Olympic flyweight (51kg) champion, Nicola Adams, 2014 European championship silver medallist, Natasha Jonas, who will box at lightweight (60kg), and the 2012 world champion, Savannah Marshall, at middleweight (75kg).

The male picks include the 2013 world championship bronze medallist, Antony Fowler, at middleweight and two European championship bronze medallists in Charlie Edwards at flyweight (52kg) and Joe Joyce at super-heavyweight (91kg).

The team is completed by bantamweight (56kg), Qais Ashfaq, lightweight (60kg), Pat McCormack, light-welterweight (64kg), Sam Maxwell, welterweight (69kg), Scott Fitzgerald and heavyweight (91kg), Warren Baister.

 Antony Fowler, Liverpool, 75kg

 Charlie Edwards, Croydon, 52kg

 Joe Joyce, London, 91+kg

Natasha Jonas, Liverpool, 60kg

 Nicola Adams, Leeds, 51kg

 Pat McCormack, Washington, 60kg

 Qais Ashfaq, Leeds, 56kg

 Sam Maxwell, Liverpool, 64kg

 Savannah Marshall, Hartlepool, 75kg

 Scott Fitzgerald, Preston, 69kg

 Warren Baister, Sunderland, 91kg