Tag: Olympics
Spain’s Olympic swimming star Ona Carbonell makes BBC’s 100 Women List
SPANISH swimmer Ona Carbonell has made it onto the BBC’s 2022 100 Women list, which highlights ‘inspiring and influential women from around the world’....
Sailing: Mallorca stages first major Olympic classes regatta in two years with Trofeo Princesa Sofia
THE 51st Trofeo Princesa Sofia sailing competition reaches its climax on Saturday
The regatta has featured over 1,000 sailors, 800 boats and competitors from 62...
Hip-wiggling Spanish athlete retires after competing in world record eight Olympic Games
AT EVERY Olympic Games over the last three decades, race walker Jesus Angel Garcia Bragado has represented Spain, hip-wiggling over 50kms while never breaking...
Barcelona’s People’s Olympiad: The story of the 1936 Protest Olympics that were derailed by the Spanish Civil War
BY Shannon Chaffers
THE Tokyo Olympic Games will soon come to a close despite an initial rocky start under a shroud of controversy with Japan...
Queen Letizia of Spain sports vibrant red as she wishes luck to Spanish team ahead of Olympics
THE Queen of Spain sported a scarlet dress when she met the Spanish Olympic team on Friday.
Queen Letizia dressed in the traditional Spanish shade...
BREAKING: Tokyo Olympic Games postponed until next year over coronavirus
THE Tokyo Olympic Games will not be held in 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
They will instead take place in the summer of...
Cruise Control! Australian duo takes home crown at Mallorca Olympic sailing event
AUSTRALIAN world champions Mat Belcher and Will Ryan received the highest accolade in the 49th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar sailing contest.
The nautical pair took...
Spain has just won its first Winter Olympic medal in 26 years
Spain's newest hero Regino Hernández has just won a bronze medal in the snowboard cross event.
Born in Ceuta and raised in Mijas Costa, the...
Mireia Belmonte is voted Spain’s best sportswoman at an award ceremony in Madrid
The 27-year-old, known as the ‘first woman from Spain ever to claim Olympic gold in swimming’, collected the award with fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal who was voted best male and Sebastian Coe, the architect of the 2012 London Olympics, who won the lifetime achievement award.
Spain’s Olympic sailing champion Xabi Fernandez navigating worlds most gruelling ocean challenge
Seven teams of intrepid yachties are travelling across the world and back on the longest route since the event’s inception in 1973.
Spanish golfer Rafael Cabrera-Bello wins gold medal for global success at Rio Olympics
He was the highest ranked Spanish golfer at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro coming fifth with fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia just three places behind him.
Ten things you definitely didn’t know about King Felipe VI
There's a lot more to King Felipe than meets the eye
Olympic Irish boxer Paddy Barnes under heavy fire for joining controversial MGM Marbella gym
The gym’s connection to the Kinahan cartel has sparked controversy
Spanish golfer Rafael Cabrera-Bello eyes up Ryder Cup place
Cabrera-Bello now wants to secure a place on Europe’s Ryder Cup team
Golfer Sergio Garcia excited for opportunity to compete in Olympics
Playing at the games will be a "dream come true"
An expat’s guide to the Spanish Olympic team
AS Rio gets set for August 5’s Grand Opening Ceremony, many expat sports fans on the Costa will want to root for their ‘local’...
What if Marbella entered the Olympics?
What events could Marbs expect to win Olympic medals in?
Fears over Zika are swarming Olympic golf tournament as biggest players drop out
The games have been overshadowed by the virus
Spain’s Muguruza and Nadal could play mixed doubles at Rio olympics
Garbine is fresh off her upset victory over Serena Williams at the French Open
Spain WILL compete at Rio Olympics despite Madrid doping lab suspension
Spain’s participation in Brazil was thrown into doubt after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) suspended the Madrid headquarters for failing to meet international standards
Spain’s Olympic team robbed at gun point in Rio
The attack will add to concerns over safety at the upcoming games
Sergio Garcia and Jose Maria Olazabal in Olympics bid
Spain's top golfers plot Rio success at La Reserva Golf Club
Rafael Nadal wants to represent Spain at Rio Olympics
The superstar added that Djokovic is the man of the moment
Spanish Olympic gold medalist contracts Zika in Brazil, throws Rio 2016 into doubt
There are now a total of 32 confirmed Zika cases in Spain, three of which are pregnant