I have included:- the form sheet to fill in Phrase and Vocab. sheet Poetry Aid ‘comic strips’ -4 Information about the modern Pentathlon profiles about the 3 competitors mentioned so far Joe Choong Olivia Green Kerenza Bryson

I have put together some information about the triathlon in Paris. Official entry form Phrase and Voc. sheet ‘Comic’ blank Information about Alex Yee and Beth Potter Information about the Triathlon Medal table showing GB at top

I have downloaded the Canoeing sheet for Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross’ There is a Phrase/ Vocabulary sheet and a Poetry Aid sheet… 3 sheets created years ago - sheet 1 would be good for differentiated work. There is information on all 4 of our experienced Olympic canoeists -Adam Burgess , Joe Clarke, Kimberly Woods and Mallory Franklin.

Magte Chunneiiang Mary Kom is a former boxer and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (2016-22). Mary has a number of notable firsts for a female boxer from India. She was the only female Indian boxer to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics -in the flyweight category she won bronze. She is the only boxer to win the Amateur Boxing Championship 6 times. At the 2014 first Indian female boxer to win gold at the Asian Games. At the 2018 first Indian female boxer to win gold at the Commonwealth Games. She has been ranked No.1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association. In 2017 the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports appointed her and Akhil Kumar as national observers of boxing. Mary’s parents were concerned that boxing would stop her finding a husband. She found a husband, they had 2 children and she returned to boxing. Her husband supported her - gave up his job to look after the children- so she could continue. Mary has opened a boxing academy in Imphal and been a Member of Parliament. * Take me as an example and don’t give up Mary Kom Sources Wikipedia RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi

I have created four sheets about cricket. One is a phrase sheet to encourage children to write about their experiences about playing or watching cricket The second is a Poetry Aid sheet in case they would like to put their thoughts in poetry form. The third sheet is a cricket word search with answer sheet. There is a sheet of cricket equipment and field positions List of basic vocabulary There are 4 sheets showing a simple sentence with their meaning of many of the words used in cricket

Eric Liddell (1902-1947), an outstanding Olympic athlete over 100/200/400m, is remembered for refusing to race on a Sunday at the 1924 Olympic Games because of his Christian beliefs. He was born in China to his Scottish missionary parents the Rev and Mrs James Dunlop Liddell. He was educated at Eltham College, Blackheath (1908-1920). Through time it has been forgotten that he was also a missionary in China for 18 years- his life was cut short by an inoperable brain tumour which he suffered while interned at the Chines Weishein camp.

The Lionesses start the World Cup in Brisbane, Australia, against Haiti. on Saturday,July 22nd. I have put together 2 pieces of information - the Lionesses and the FIFA World Cup for Women. There is a brief history and information about the nickname. A full list of the women’s national football team. 4 profiles - Sarina Wiegman and England team, Keira Walsh, Lucy Bronze, Mary Earps and Ellen White - record goal scorer (retired) A Lioness word search (answers provided) Information about the FIFA world cup The 8 groups - England are in Group D with Denmark, China and Haiti The 10 stadiums Big match dates Dates for England’s group games List of early matches There are several differentiated vocabulary and phrase sheets A blank comic strip A poetry aid Pictures of the flags of the 32 competing teams, a list of the teams and a word search (answers provided) Stadium word search (answers provided) 4 clipboard pictures I hope this information proves useful.

Sally is a former world class British track and field athlete who was active between 1984 and 1997. Sally is the only British female athlete to have won all 4 majors - Olympics, World, European and Commonwealth titles She is also the first female 400m hurdler in history to win the Olympic and World titles and break the world record (52.74 secs in 1993). She was also an accomplished long jumper, heptathlete and 100m hurdler. She retired in September 1997 after a recurrence of an Achilles tendon injury forced her to pull out of the World Championship semi-final. ( Read her* Athletics career*) She was named World and European Female of the Year in 1993 and made an MBE in 1993 and an OBE in 1998.C When Sally retired from athletics she worked as a television presenter, predominately for the BBC until 2006. She co-hosted Body Heat (1994/6) for ITV with Mike Smith and Jeremy Guscott. She is now involved as one of the ambassadors for McCain’s Track & Field partnership with UK Athletics. In 1993 received a MBE and in 1998 an OBE… In 2011 Sally was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex.

Sue Barker is a former professional tennis player and television presenter. During her tennis career she won 15 WTA tour single titles including the 1976 French Open aged 20. She also won 12 doubles titles. She reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 3 on 20th March 1977. She won her last doubles title in 1982 at Cincinnati and played her last professional match in 1984. Her mentor throughout her career was Arthur Roberts. He began coaching her in 1966 when she was 10 years of age. In 2004, recalling her French Open win in 1976,she said,* I’m still incredibly proud of what I achieved.*** She retired from playing tennis to presenting it! From 1985 until 1990 she became a commentator and sports reporter for Australia’s Channel 7. She then joined British Sky Broadcasting. In 1993 she joined the BBC and was a regular guest on* Today at Wimbledon* with Harry Carpenter. In the 1990’s hosted BBC Wimbledon Highlight show with Pam Shriver. In 1994 took over as host of* Today at Wimbledon*. From 2000 until 2022 she anchored the 2 week long broadcast of the Wimbledon tennis championships for the BBC. Sue had a long broadcasting career. She enjoyed commentating on many sports- from horse racing to the Olympics. - summer and winter. From 1997 until 2020 she presented* A Question of Sport*- a programme which viewers very much enjoyed watching. In 2000 received an MBE for services to sport and broadcasting. In 2016 received OBE for broadcasting and charity. In 2021 received CBE for broadcasting and charity. In 1982 met Cliff Richard. In 1988 married Lance TanKard Autobiography ‘Calling the Shots’ published in 2022. Sources Wikipedia Passing the Torch - Sportswomen who Inspire

Clare has close family links with horse racing and between 1988-1993 was a leading amateur flat jockey. In 1990 she was the Champion Lady Rider. She then moved onto commentating on horse racing. She is an English broadcast journalist and author. Her memoir My Animals and Other Family, looking at her life growing up in racing yard won the 2012 National Book award for* Autobiography of the year. She has reported on 7 Olympic Games and presented 5 Paralympic Games. (Read her Broadcasting Career- 30 years covering sport and many other events) She has written columns for* The Sporting Life, Racing Post, Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard,* and regularly writes in the Waitrose Weekend. She is now focusing on women’s sport and had a great time doing women’s football show for C4, women’s super League matches for BT Sport, women’s tennis for the BBC and BT. She is a patron for a number of charities (Read* Charitable activities*) She believes strongly that improving coverage and investment in Paralympic and women’s sport will have far reaching benefits In 2013 received OBE for services to broadcasting and journalism. In 2020 appointed ,for 2 years, president of the Rugby Football League. In her tenure she hoped women’s game would turn professional. In 2022 she received a CBE for services to sport and charity. Clare is definitely one of the UK’s renown sports broadcasters. Sources Wikipedia Women in Sport by Rachel Ignotofsky *Passing the Torch Sportswomen who Inspire Mary Peters Trust

Sharron is a former English swimmer who represented GB in the Olympics and European championships. She has attended 12 consecutive Olympics -3 as a competitor and 9 as a commentator. She also competed in the international community spanning 20 years. She learned to swim when she was 6 years of age. By the age of 8 she was training seriously. Aged 11 swam for the British national team. Aged 13 represented GB at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Aged 14 won 2 bronze medals at the 1977 European Championships. Aged 15 won 2 gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in the 200 ` and 400 individual medleys. Aged 17 she won a silver medal at the 1980 games in the 400m individual medley Aged 18 ‘called time’ to build her television profile and career in modelling. Aged 27’ returned’ to the pool. Aged 32, in 1994, finally retired having been British champion 22 times , broken 200 British swimming records and held 5 World Masters records( eligible when over 30) When she retired she worked for various media organisations and programmes. (Read* Publications, media programmes and other work*) Given a MBE in 1993 in recognition for her sevices to swimming. In 2005 supported London’s bid for the 2112 Olympics. On BBC’s Question Time made a strong case for bringing the Games to London. She is a patron of the Disabled Sport Rngland and SportsAid. She has her view on trans women.In 2023 criticised Nike for using Dylan Mulvany, a transgengender woman to model their products. There is talk that her silver , won in 1980, could still be turned into gold. The gold medallist, Petra Schneider, from East Germany, has admitted that the victory was drug enhanced.

She learn to swim when she was only 3 years old. Rebecca is a former swimmer who specialised in the freestyle events and won 2 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics -the 400m and 800m freestyle. In the 800m she set a new world record of 8min 14.1secs. She was the first GB woman to win swimming gold since Anita Lonsbrough in1960 She went on to win many more medals for GB. In the 2012 Olympic Games in London she won bronze in both the 400m and 8oom. After the Games she decided to only do the 400m and not compete in 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. She retired from competitive swimming on 5th February 2013 aged 23. Since retiring from swimming she has worked for BBC TV as a swimming pundit at Olympic and World championships and made various other media appearances. She is running her own learn to swim programme called* Becky Adlington Swim Star* and promoting sport at any opportunity. She has received a lot of recognition. In 2009 she was appointed an OBE. (For full list see* Recognition*) She is an ambassador for the Encephalitis Society ( an inflammation of the brain) which her sister suffered from in 2005. It makes me more determined. It makes me train harder Rebecca’s comment in 2012 Sources Wikipedia Passing the Torch Sportswomen who inspire Mary Peters Trust

Nicola Adams became the first female boxer to become an Olympic champion in 2012. At the London Summer Olympics she won fly weight title. She went on to successfully defend her title at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She began her career as an amateur representing Haringey Police Community Club. She went on to win the entire set of amateur championships available to her - Olympic, Commonwealth and European Games titles. She turned professional in 2017 and went on to capture the WBO flyweight title. She only fought 6 ties as a professional - winning 5 and drawing her last contest. In her rematch with Maria Salinas she suffered a torn pupil and after consultation retired, undefeated. I’m immensely honoured to have represented our country- to win double Olympic medals and then the WBO championship belt is a dream come true. Nicola Adams. (Nicola became the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.) Sources Wikipedia Women in Sport by Rachel Ignotofsky

Robbie Brightwell was captain of the GB team at the i1964 Olympics in Tokyo. He was a 400m runner. He came fourth in the individual 400m; the 4x400 men’s team won silver. He married Ann Packer-( the surprise GB winner of the individual 800m gold medal ) after the Olympics. After his own disappointment in the individual 400m he had encouraged the reluctant Ann to run in the 800m. Both received MBEs in 1965 for their services to athletics.

Mary Denise Rand (nee Bignal) is a former English track and field athlete. In 1964 she won the gold medal for the long jump, in a new world record - 6,76 metres, at the Summer Tokyo Olympic games. At the same Olympics she also won silver in the Pentathlon (5 events) and bronze in the 4 x 100 relay. Mary remains the only GB athlete to win medals in a single games.

Ann, at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, was the unexpected winner of the 800m winning in world record time of 2:01.1 minutes. This was only her eighth race over the distance. She had already won silver in the 400m. Her local club was Reading Athletic club where she competed in 200m, 400m, 800m, 4 x 100 and 4 x400 relays, hurdles and long jump. After winning the gold she announced her retirement. She, with her future husband, Robbie Brightwell, were awarded MBEs in 1965 for services to athletics. In 2011 they published a book detailing their careers Robbie Brightwell and his Golden Girl:The Posh and Becks of Yesteryear. Source Wikipedia

Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur on the 7th February 2005 broke the world record for a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe with a time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. The very next day she became a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) and granted the rank of Honorary Lieutenant Commander, Royal Naval Reserve on the same day Born in 1976 she went on a yacht for the first time aged just 4. Aged 8 she began saving up for a boat of her own! Aged 18 she sailed solo around Great Britain . Aged 20 she raced across the Atlantic. Aged 29 she sailed solo no-stop around the world in her trimaran B&Q/Castorama. (Read her Professional Sailing Career and Sailing Records)- it is incredible what she achieved. Ellen retired in 2009 having set up many sailing records along the way. In 2003 she set up the Ellen MacArthur Trust (now the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust) to help 8-24 year olds to regain confidence while recovering from cancer, leukaemia and other serious illnesses. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which promotes the use on the circular economy, was launched in 2010. It does this by developing and promoting the concept of recycling rubbish to make new products by working with business, policy makers and academics. This world, that I thought as a child was the biggest, most adventurous place you could image, is not that big, and there’s an awful lot of us on it. Ellen MacArthur Sources used Wikipedia Women of Sport by Rachel Ignotofsky

Tanni was christened Carys Davina Grey but when her sister saw her for the first time she referred to her as ‘tiny’, pronouncing it ‘tanni’- the nickname stayed. She was born with spina bifida. (Spina bifida is when a baby’s spine and spinal cord do not develop properly in the womb - causing a gap in the spine.) This did not stop her from enjoying and competing in sports. As a young athlete she competed in wheelchair basketball. Tanni became an outstanding GB Paralympic champion in wheelchair racing, winning 11 gold medals over 100-800 metres between 1992-2004, plus 4 silver and 1 bronze medals. She broke/held over 30 world records and won the London Marathon 6 times between 1992-2002. She retired from competing on 27th February 2007 Tanni continues to be an inspiration for disabled athletes. Her contribution to inclusivity and equal rights for the disabled resulted in her becoming The Right Honourable The Baroness Grey-Thompson in the 2012 New Year’s honours list. Her autobiography Seize the Day was published in 2001. Sources Wikipedia Women in Sport by Rachel Ignotofsky

Dame Katherine Granger began rowing in 1993 while attending university in Edinburgh. She competed in both the double and quadruple skulls, plus the coxless pairs. In 2000, at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia, medals were awarded to females for the first time in rowing- she won a silver in the quadruple skulls event. For a number of Olympics she gained medals but it was not until 2012 that she won gold in the double sculls with her partner Anna Watkins. I n 2012 she was the first female to win medals at 4 consecutive Olympic games. In 2016, in Rio, she won a further silver medal with Victoria Thornley after having a break of 2 years from the sport! In the 2017 New Years Honours list Katherine was awarded a DCM (Dame Commander of the British Empire) for services to sport and charity.

In 1908 Florence Madeline (Madge) Caves became Great Britain’s first female Olympic figure skater . In those days, during the winter, men and women enjoyed figure skating but women were not allowed to compete in competitions- they thought it would cause too much stress on a woman’s weak body. Madge was such an amazing skater that she gained notoriety and respect from the skating community to become an Olympic champion gold medalist. Men only took part in competitions before Madge competed - officials checked the rules to try to stop her but found there was no explicit rules to exclude women. She became a regular at the Prince’s Skating Club in Knightsbridge. In 1899 Madge met Edgar Syers (18 years her senior). Together they competed in pairs competitions and in 1900 they came second in one of the first pairs events staged in Berlin. Also in 1900 they got married. Edgar became her coach and started to teach her the more fluid International style. In 1902 she entered to compete in the Championships in in London which was regarded as an all male event. They reluctantly allowed her to compete and she came second. The winner Ulrich Salchow was so impressed by her performance that he offered her his gold medal. In 1903 the ISU Congress voted 6 to 3 in barring women from the championship!! In 1905 the ISU Congress established a separate ladies’ event- held at a different date and venue from the men’s event. Madge won the first two events. The Summer Olympics in London in 1908 saw Madge compete as an individual and in the pairs event with her husband Edgar. Madge won the gold; together they won bronze. Madge retired after the Olympics due to fading health. She died of heart failure on 9th September 1917 The Syers produced 2 books The Book of Winter Sports (1908) The Art of Skating (1913) Her bravery and excellence helped future women show their talents to the world. Besides being a proficient figure skater she was a gifted swimmer and equestrienne. Sources used Wikipedia and *Women in Sport * by Rachel Ignofsky