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Five thousand calories for the rower, seven miles in the pool for the swimmer, 1,200 bounces for the trampolinist - not to mention all the sweat and tears. It's just a typical 24 hours for these Olympic hopefuls
Posted: May 20, 2012, 6:00 am
Telegraph View: The Olympic torch is lighting up the country.
Posted: May 20, 2012, 6:00 am
The world was watching, but the start of the Olympic torch relay was really rather British.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 8:00 pm
Nick Skelton's Olympic prospects received a further boost after the veteran rider won the Grand Prix of Hamburg with Big Star.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:17 pm
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark became Britain's first ever 470 Womens World Champions in Barcelona.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 4:26 pm
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark became Britain's first ever 470 Womens World Champions in Barcelona.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 4:26 pm
World triple jump silver medallist Phillips Idowu beats a top-class field at Diamond League meeting in Shanghai.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 3:00 pm
Triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie said waiting to start the London 2012 Olympic torch relay at Land's End was "one of the more nervous moments in my life".
Posted: May 19, 2012, 1:08 pm
Savannah Marshall celebrated her 21st birthday by being crowned Britain's first women's world boxing champion.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 12:54 pm
Follow live updates from our team of writers as the London 2012 Olympic torch relay begins at Land's End in Cornwall on May 19, 2012.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 12:40 pm
Olympic champion sailor Ben Ainslie says hosting the Olmpic torch is an enormous occasion as he kicked-off the 8,000 mile relay in Land's End.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 9:45 am
Triple Olympic gold medallist sailor, Ben Ainslie is the first torchbearer as the Olympic flame begins its 70-day tour of the UK in the build up to the London 2012 games.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 9:26 am
A new radio show finds Britain's Olympic gold medallists, says Jim White.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 6:00 am
Spyros Gianniotis, not just a world champion swimmer, but an athlete whose allegiances can be divided neatly between Greece and Great Britain.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:25 am
Metropolitan Police will have 70-strong security force to protect the Olympic torch.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:23 am
London's most remarkable torchbearer stays sprightly with hard work and sweets, she tells Oliver Pickup.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:18 am
Torch lighting is one link between the old and new Olympics, but not all are so welcome, says Paul Kelso.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:16 am
TV presenter Konnie Huq remembers how her role in the Beijing 2008 torch relay was disrupted by a protestor angry at China's human rights record.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:13 am
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby explain how they designed the London 2012 Olympic torch.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:10 am
The 1948 relay was chaotic but, as one of the runners recalls, it captured the country's giddy mood.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:08 am
The relay might symbolise Olympian ideals, but it began as Nazi propaganda, writes Brendan Gallagher.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:05 am
Sir Steve Redgrave: arrival of torch on British soil has made London 2012 Olympics seem that much more real.
Posted: May 19, 2012, 5:02 am
Ellen Gandy fronted 2012 bid - now she joins Telegraph's Olympic team.
Posted: May 18, 2012, 9:00 pm
Sir Steve Redgrave on the pain behind Carlos's black power salute.
Posted: May 18, 2012, 9:00 pm
Three-time Olympic gold medallist prepares for opening leg of torch journey by securing landmark title.
Posted: May 18, 2012, 8:32 pm