Olympic Modern Pentathlon News

A TEACHER has resigned from her job to concentrate on an audacious bid to qualify for the GB Olympics team.

"Why is he carrying a candle?" Do you start with a history lesson about ancient Greece? Or maybe a philosophical discussion of the symbolism of fire? A crash course in Canadian geography? Even settling on the basics feels daunting at 7:30 a.m., after too little sleep and too many glasses of red wine at a Christmas party the night before.

SINGAPORE: Over the next two days, 26 athletes from the Asia-Oceania region will take part in the sport of modern pentathlon to vie for a chance to compete at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games next year.

With a backgorund in ultimate fighting and football, Todd Hays was an unlikely candidate to drive the U.S. to its first bobsled Olympic medal in almost 50 years.

BRITAIN'S top sport stars said they were spurred on towards competing at the upcoming Olympic Games in Vancouver and London after being named as the British Olympic Association's athletes of the year.

Details of how the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games plans to transform Greenwich Park into a top-class equestrian venue have been unveiled.

The single, most ridiculous attempt by curling's braintrust to reinvent their delightfully simple game is thankfully just an embarrassing footnote in a storied history.

WORK to restore a royal park after it is used for Olympic horse-riding could go on until 2015, according to a planning application.

While Chicago won't host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2016, Lake County will host an Olympic-style event next summer when 300 elite athletes journey to the area to participate in the National Junior Disability Championships in Lake Forest and Deerfield from July 18-25. This is the first time the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association of Lake ...

PLYMOUTH fencers Corinna Lawrence and Toni Denham displayed a cutting edge finishing first and third, respectively, at the Milner-Barry Cup in London.

Corsham swimming star Stephanie Millward has capped a memorable few days by winning a BBC West Sports Personality of the Year award.

MODERN PENTATHLON University of Bath-based duo Sam Weale and Freyja Prentice have been given a helping hand in their respective bids for glory at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

OLYMPIC gold medallist Dame Mary Peters is the guest of honour for the 2009 Sports Awards evening at the Villa Marina on Thursday, April 8. Dame Mary represented Northern Ireland at every Commonwealth Games from 1958 to 1974 inclusive.

BARRIE WELLS has 2million in his jacket pocket that he wants to hand over to athletes who think they can win gold medals.

Christmas Connection, a longtime charitable agency in Oklahoma City, will have a nice new "store" for its holiday shoppers.

A QUARTET of Dartford school girls competed at Gillinghama s Medway Sports Complex in the regional schools biathlon.

ATHLETICS Multi-terrain specialist Tom Fisher smashed the course record to win the Avebury eight-mile event organised by Marlborough Running Club.

Native son Jim Thorpe is regarded as the greatest athlete to set foot on Oklahoma soil.

MODERN pentathlon rising star Alice Fitton is making her mark on the European scene.

A SET of ten-year-old triplets from Nailsworth have come away with a national team title at the British Modern Pentathlon Championships in Wolverhampton.