With the Tour de France’s Grand Depart in Yorkshire this summer, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the first women’s Tour of Britain, cyclist Lizzie Armitstead is preparing for a massive year. The 2012 Olympic […]
Sport | Jenny Jones secures first ever GB medal on snow in slopestyle
“Britain just dominated the slopestyle”. Of course, this is not strictly true. Any rational observer would see that Norway’s silver in the men’s, Finland’s in the women’s, and a gold medal in each for the […]
Sport | Sochi Winter Olympics Preview
This year in Sochi at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Team GB have the chance to become the most successful Winter Olympics ever, targetting 3-7 medals this year. The last time Britain managed to win 3 […]
Sport | An Underdog Story – Nick Buckland's journey to Sochi
Each week, LS Sport bring you the most inspiring sporting achievements which you may not have heard about, in our new ‘An Underdog Story’ blog. In a week which has seen Great Britain qualify for […]
Sport | Opinion – Fantastic Farah deserves Sports Personality award
As we approach this year’s BBC Sports Personality Awards, it seems a formality that the main prize is Andy Murray’s for the taking after becoming the first male British winner at Wimbledon since Fred Perry […]
Sport | Micheal Phelps – The comeback conundrum
Michael Phelps has nothing more to prove in the sport of swimming, so talk of a comeback seems somewhat bizarre. Now aged 28, Phelps will be 31 by the time the next Olympics are held in […]
Blogs | Adjusting Focus
Tom Stoddart has been there to photograph some of the most pivotal moments in the recent history of the world. He saw, amongst other things, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unrelenting famine in […]
Leeds Handball need the magic touch
Author: Emma Horrell Handball. A word that makes most people think of a foul in football. Until recently, few people in the UK had seen or played a game of handball. […]
Nautical nakedness for Club’s calendar
9.11.12 The University’s Boat Club (LUUBC) is to produce its “most nakedest calendar yet”, with shoots taking place across Leeds and York. Organiser, rower and model Nick Gandy described the preparations for the LUUBC calendar […]
Athletes A-Pauled by Post Olympic Cuts
This week Britain’s marathon superstar Paula Radcliffe had her national lottery funding cut. The 38 year old confessed that with her ongoing decline in performance she was unsurprised by the cut but it is a […]
Olympic athletes – born or made?
With the 2012 Olympics now behind us, and a reported surge in people taking up sport, one question remains, could any of us “average joes” with the right diet and training ever make it […]
Voyeur avoids jail despite spying on Chinese Olympians
A man caught red-handed spying on Chinese athletes while they were getting dressed has been spared jail.