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Who are Team GB's athletes to watch Team GB will be represented by its largest ever delegation for an Olympic Games on foreign soil, with 376 athletes and a further 22 reserve athletes set to compete across 26 sports at the Tokyo 2020 Games. It is second only to the 541 athletes selected for the London Olympics in 2012. For the first time in its 125-year history, Team GB will also be taking more women than men to a summer Olympic Games. Of the 376 athletes selected, Team GB is taking 201 female (53.5%) and 175 male athletes (46.5%) to Tokyo thanks to impressive qualification performances from...

A record-breaking seven past and present Durham University students have been chosen to represent their respective home nations at the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games. Six sporting stars will be representing Team GB in Hockey and Rowing, as well as one recent graduate who will be representing Canada in Fencing. The athletes were recently congratulated during a group Zoom call with Durham University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart Corbridge. Leading the way to Tokyo is twenty-one-year-old Fiona Crackles, a Sport and Exercise Sciences student in her second year, representing Team GB as part of t...

Dina Asher-Smith: Athletics - women’s 100m, 200m and 4x100m The headline act on the British team, Asher-Smith won three medals at the 2019 World Championships - including 200m gold - and has her sights firmly set on matching that achievement in Tokyo. Sam Atkin: Athletics - men’s 10,000m Based in the United States since moving there as a teenager for his studies, Atkin, now 28, made a huge breakthrough when he moved fifth on the British all-time 10,000m list in December 2020 to qualify for Tokyo. Niclas Baker: Athletics - men’s 4x400m Baker smashed his personal best to win the British 4...

By Jeanne Dailey, Air Force Research Laboratory / Published February 04, 2021 The Air Force Research Laboratory held an induction ceremony to transfer 13 officers from the U.S. Air Force into the U.S. Space Force Feb. 1, at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Col. Eric Felt, director of AFRL's Space Vehicles Directorate (center), presided over the event with distinguished guest speakers, Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland, USAF (ret.) (left) and Col. Mike Mullane, USAF (ret.) (right), both of whom administered the oath of office to the new Space Force Guardians. (U.S. Air Force photo/John Michael...