DCMS Blog
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Wednesday night rounded off a momentous day for women’s football in this country, with Chelsea Ladies taking on Arsenal Ladies and Lincoln Ladies up against Doncaster Rover Belles.
Continue reading "Women's football comes forward as the Paralympics come home" »
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Shauna Mullin, Team GB beach volleyball player provides an insight into training, preparations and hopes for the London Olympics.
Continue reading "Smashing beach volleyball myths and my road to 2012" »
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Richard Stock, Explore Rowing Programme Manager, dips an oar into rowing history and explains how Explore Rowing is bringing the sport to the whole community.
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Ciaran Williams, captain of the Great Britain men's handball team, explains more about the game and his hopes that good results at London 2012 could be a catalyst for getting more people involved in the sport.
Continue reading "Fun, fast and physical - the lowdown on handball" »
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With less than 500 days until the start of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we want school children from across the country to feel part of this once in a lifetime event. The School Games will help to do just that.
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James Thomas, Head of Operations at Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, give us the lowdown on the no-holds-barred world of wheelchair rugby, its charity projects and the tournaments helping British players get in shape for the Paralympic Games.
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With less than 500 days until London 2012, it is not just the athletes themselves who are gearing up for the competition - the sport science and medical support teams are also preparing for next summer. Dr Ken van Someren, Director of Sport Science at the English Institute of Sport (EIS), explains more about the work of these behind-the-scenes staff.
Continue reading "How sport science is evolving in countdown to the Games" »
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Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, chair of the Commission on the Future of Women’s Sport, explains why sports governing bodies would benefit from opening their doors to more women.
Continue reading "What can sport learn from Lord Davies' review of women on boards?" »
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The excitement for London 2012 is really building as next week we hit one of the biggest milestones before the opening ceremony. On Tuesday 15 March we’ll celebrate 500 days to go until the games begin with tickets going on sale.
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Mixed doubles badminton champion Nathan Robertson, who won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, counts down to next year’s London Games and the chance to take home the coveted gold medal.
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Jordanne Whiley, world number ten women's wheelchair tennis player on her story so far and her medal and legacy hopes for 2012.
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I was able to tell the media this week about the steady progress that has been made in delivering the Olympic and Paralympic Games this year at the Government’s London 2012 Annual Report press conference.
Continue reading "London 2012 – on time, on budget...on your marks for tickets" »
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Darren Henley, author of the Music Education in England review on the importance of Music Education.
Continue reading "Children and young people should receive the best possible Music Education" »
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On the eve of the 2011 Indoor Hockey World Cup, Indoor novice (and Outdoor England star) Darren Cheesman reflects on his journey to the top of the game.
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Rimla Akhtar, Chairperson of the Muslim Women's Sport Foundation on the challenges and achievements of her organisation.
Continue reading "Increasing the focus on minority ethnic women and girls' sport" »
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Sports and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson on the importance of this year in the build up to London 2012 and the big sporting events happening in 2011.
Continue reading "A decisive year for London 2012 and a look ahead at sporting events in 2011" »
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Sports and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson applauds the England cricket team and explains why he believes it is crucial to get more women to play sport.
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Sports and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson reflects on the 2018 bid, and the Lee Valley White Water Centre, opened this week.
Continue reading "World Cup disappointment; Olympic anticipation" »
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Nigel Walker, National Director, English Institute of Sport (EIS) blogs on the importance of sports science and medical support.
Continue reading "Supporting elite athletes is key for 2012 success & beyond" »
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So it is all over now. And fans at home as well as everyone in the 2018 bid team are understandably gutted.
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Some of you, I suspect – or those, at any rate, old enough to hazily remember pounds, shillings and pence - will have a childhood memory of penny arcades.
Continue reading "A short history of the One-Armed Bandit" »
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Birmingham City Council Leader Mike Whitby explains why his city has every reason to look forward to the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Woke up this morning to see a picture of a crumbling bridge in Delhi on the front page of the Guardian just as India gets ready to host the Commonwealth Games.
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Last week was dominated by an almost continuous stream of meetings about the Comprehensive Spending Review.
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Darren Campbell, Youth Sport Trust School Sport Ambassador, discusses why the Sainsbury’s UK School Games will provide talented young athletes with a taste of competing at an elite level event.
Continue reading "Talented youngsters in sport need championship experience" »
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I had another hectic start to the week with a trip to the Olympic Park – this time to present the quarterly financial results. The build is really coming along and it’s fantastic to see how fast everything is moving. The project is in remarkably good shape – still on time and within budget.
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Many sports fans grew up with sky-high sporting ambitions – childhood dreams of playing at Wembley in an FA Cup Final, holing a putt at St Andrews at The Open or walking down the steps at Lord’s and on to the pitch for a Test Match.
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Last night I had dinner with Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry who between them are responsible for the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics (Stephen is in fact responsible for all the ceremonies and Danny specifically for the opening ceremony).
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It’s been a busy week on the London 2012 front with the International Olympic Committee in the capital to see how our plans for the Games are going.
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So far, I think I am making good progress on my DCMS priorities.
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It’s certainly been a week of extremes in British sport.
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I want to start out by congratulating the England team on their performance on Wednesday against Slovenia. It was a much improved performance and they thoroughly deserved their win.
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This is the first of what will be regular previews of my week ahead, I hope they will shed some light on the day to day work of a Sport and Olympics Minister.
