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Team GB Olympians and Paralympians received a hero's welcome home today in London, with thousands of people gathering in Trafalgar Square to see the returning athletes after a successful summer. A GB record was set this summer after our athletes returned with 67 medals, which is two more than they managed at London 2012. The Paralympians also beat their previous performance with 147 medals - 27 more than four years ago. Thousands of people turned out in Trafalgar Square to welcome stars...

Seven professional rugby players had to be rescued when they got stuck in a hotel lift because they broke the weight limit. The Sale Sharks stars, included Wales' all-time great scrum half Mike Phillips, South African prop Brian Mujati and Samoan centre Johnny Leota, spent an hour and a quarter trapped inside the lift because at 755kg they were more than 120kg above the maximum weight limit. Fire crew and an engineer were called out to the lift at the Hilton hotel in...

A date has been set for the much-anticipated bout between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitshcko. The two heavyweights have been given the green light after WBO and WBA heavyweight champion Tyson Fury vacated his belts after being ruled medically unfit to compete. According to The Telegraph, the Joshua Klitshcko fight has been set for 10th December, with confirmation expected this week. The bout is expected to fetch a whopping £30 million and garner record viewing numbers from across the World as...

By Math Morrison  Yesterday two sets of football fans united off the pitch for a protest march. Charlton Athletic and Coventry City fans stood shoulder to shoulder in protest against their respective owners, owners who through their clueless knowledge of football seem hell-bent on running their clubs into the ground. Fifteen years ago the same two teams met in in the Premier League, yet this weekend the clubs meet in League One, the third tier in English football. The going-ons off the...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter TLE Sports Editor David de Winter & Richard de Winter discuss the England football team's qualifiers against Slovenia & Malta, England's 2-1 series victory over Bangladesh, Jessica Ennis-Hill's retirement, Johanna Konta's rise to the WTA top-10 rankings and the managerial sack-race.

The time of year when events pick up pace in the horse-racing world is fast approaching. Between many exciting festivals leading up to Christmas, and the usual queue of news regarding jockeys, trainers and retirements, let’s take a look at some of the stories headed your way this October. Almanzor to Miss Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe The winner of the Irish Champions Stakes, Almanzor, has been removed from this coming Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, which is scheduled...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter I watched England labour to a fairly fortunate draw in Slovenia last night in what, before the match at least, felt like a new beginning for the national side.  Captain Wayne Rooney was dropped to the bench after an inauspicious start to the season for both club and country.  This was heralded as a watershed moment for England (mostly by the media), ushering in a new era of...

Sport News 24/7 It’s not every season that Leeds United reach the second international break of the season with the same manager in situ as started the season. Well, it’s not every season under Massimo Cellino’s stewardship that they do, anyway. In that regard, phase one of Garry Monk’s mission is complete. He flirted with the sack after an insipid start but this is, after all, a results business and results came good. So, what then, is phase two of...

Sport News 24/7 An unbeaten under-12s primary school football coach has applied for the England job, although he says he'll only take it if the money is right. Just weeks after Sam Allardyce was forced to leave his position as England Head Coach, Sam Chambers of  Weeden Bec Primary school in Northamptonshire has submitted his application after phenomenal success with his under-12s team. As well as sending the FA a copy of his CV he wrote a covering letter outlining why he is the...