Top Olympic tips for mental resilience to enhance success
Team GB’s lead psychologist Jess Thom reveals her advice to athletes to boost focus and performance
Team GB’s Phoebe Gill, 17, uses Emma Raducanu for inspiration in medal hunt
Team GB’s Phoebe Gill says she has been able to balance her A-level studies with her running as she vies for 800m glory
Purple reign: why Paris Olympics track could be the fastest in history
The Stade de France track has a new colour and, organisers hope, could provide the platform for a host of new records
Mystery solved after 116 years: how the King helped prove marathon really is 26m 385yds
Joe Neanor set out to prove length of 1908 Olympic race – and the official distance since then – was correct
Johnson-Thompson one of 50 athletes to use revered World Cup dressing room
Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be one of only 50 athletes at the Paris Olympics with access to the same dressing room as France’s 1998 champions
Inside the Olympic medal factories: how Team GB are shaping up in key sports
Big names eye gold in athletics and swimming while Britain hope to improve on their rowing showing from Tokyo
24 for Paris 2024: must-watch Olympians who will light up the Games
Our writers pick six GB athletes, six Australians, six Americans and six from around the world who have stories well worth following
Katarina Johnson-Thompson reveals uncertainty over fitness before Paris
The heptathlete is aiming for her first Olympic medal. Despite concerns over tendonitis, she has ‘found joy’ during preparations
Nina Kennedy among three Australians to fine-tune for Olympics with wins in London
Reigning world champion clears 4.85m in women’s pole vault, as Mackenzie Little and Oliver Hoare also win Diamond League events
Keely Hodgkinson delights London crowd to lay down Olympic marker
The 22-year-old confirmed her status as red-hot favourite for gold in Paris with a sensational victory in the 800m at the London Diamond League
Makers of ‘spray-on’ trainers hoping to strike gold at the Olympics
Swiss company On will make history in Paris and is challenging the sneaker superbrands
Daryll Neita wants to ‘destroy’ British teammate and rival Dina Asher-Smith
Team GB’s Daryll Neita admits she wants to ‘destroy’ teammate Dina Asher-Smith when the pair compete in individual sprints
‘It’s in reach at the Olympics’: Gabby Thomas on the science of speed and hunting down Flo-Jo’s record
Harvard graduate in neurobiology is favourite for the 200m gold in Paris and has her sights set on a 36-year-old mark
Zharnel Hughes hits back at rival Noah Lyles over Netflix putdown
The Team GB sprinter has said the jibe ‘raised all the red in me’, while he has been using Linford Christie clips as motivation in his push for Olympic gold
‘I’m free to run – and I run to feel free!’ The asylum seekers who dream of sporting glory
A Paralympic shot putter, an elite cyclist, an amateur table tennis player and more reveal why sport means so much to them – and the obstacles they have to overcome