Only one Englishman who had a great Olympic career ever stood for the IOC presidency before Sebastian Coe, and Coe will try ...

Tributes have been paid to Dick McTaggart, the only Scottish boxer to win an Olympic gold medal, who has died aged 89.

winning the gold medal in a time of 13.5. His second gold medal was less of a surprise, for he tied the world record of 13.2 in Bern, Switzerland shortly before the Rome Olympics. In Rome, he won in ...