Tag: olympic games
The greatest Gymnast of our time coached and mentored by coach...
Aimee Boorman is an American artistic gymnastics coach. She is the head coach of 2013, 2014, and 2015 world champion, and 2016 Olympic All-Around gold medalist Simone Biles....
The greatest 400m race in History & The Amazing Achievement of...
Anna Botha, a name that not many in the sporting World had heard of before Rio 2016, made a name for herself on the night...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Maarit Teuronen – Boxing (Finland)
As recently as the early 1990s, boxing gyms were bastions of masculinity where few women would tread. Slowly but surely, female boxers broke down those...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Janneke Schopman – Hockey (Team USA)
Johanna ("Janneke") Dorotheo Maria Schopman is a Dutch field hockey player who played as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch as well as for the Netherlands national team. Schopman...
RIO OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Karen Brown – Hockey (GB)
Karen is a former England and Great Britain International and has worked for the England Hockey Board since 2005. Having won 355 caps, she...
RIO OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Keiko Miura – Hockey (Japan)
Keiko Miura is a female field hockey field player from Japan, who is playing for Sony Bravia Ladies. She plays as a defender and is the striker of the penalty corner in her league...
Rio 2016 sees an increase in competing female athletes, but what...
Women first took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, four years after the first Olympic Games of the modern era in...
Jane Figueiredo coaches Diver Tom Daley & Dan Goodfellow to Olympic...
Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow - 10m Platform Synchro Divers won bronze at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on Monday 8th August 2016 - both...
RIO OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Jane Figueiredo – Diving (GB)
Jane Figueiredo, born in Zimbabwe, is currently the Head Diving Coach at the High Performance Centre in London (the 2012 Olympic Pool) and coach...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Mary Joe Fernandez – Tennis (USA)
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in three Grand Slam singles tournaments and won two Grand Slam women's doubles titles and two Olympic gold...