OLYMPIC torchbearers will cheer home runners during the third annual Penwith Radio Five-Mile Run this weekend.
Dave Jackson, Sarah Blight, Tassy Swallow, Keia Wardman and Keith Songhurst will be positioned at route markers as the runners head from...
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Olympic torchbearers to support runners during Penwith race
Signs are looking champion for Olympic ace Helen
OLYMPIC champion Helen Glover visited Causewayhead last week to officially open two street signs.The images were installed at the top and bottom of the shopping thoroughfare earlier this year in a bid to attract new people to the area.Their introductio...
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Cornwall Olympic champion Helen Glover joins Festival of Sport
Olympic gold medal-winning rower Helen Glover and former England and Arsenal defender Lee Dixon joined thousands of others at the inaugural Human Race Festival of Sport, writes Petra Mann.The new mass participation sports event at Marazion, near Penza...
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King Harry joins Team GB
The King Harry Ferry played host to a group of Olympic Champions as they headed to St Mawes for a special rowing event.
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Olympic rower Helen Glover to attend Festival of Sport in Marazion
This weekend, Olympic gold medal-winning rower Helen Glover will join thousands of sports enthusiasts at the Human Race Festival of Sport in Marazion, West Cornwall.
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Ben Ainslie does not rule out another Olympic effort
FALMOUTH’S four-time gold medallist Ben Ainslie has reaffirmed that he has yet to make a decision on his Olympic future.
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Team GB to take on Cornish gig rowers at St Mawes
Team GB rowing Olympic medallists will be competing against crews of Cornish gig rowers off St Mawes Harbour next Wednesday.
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Flames of fun blaze brightly in the drizzle
FORGET the Olympic Games having a Greek origin – a new version was home-grown in Gweek.The village hosted an afternoon of fun and games, including what organisers described as a new element to the sporting programme – shower-dodging.Karen...
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Journalism student shares memories of the Games
A JOURNALISM student got an unparalleled view of the Olympic and Paralympic Games when working as a volunteer.Edward Hurst, from University College Falmouth, was chosen from thousands of applicants to become a game maker in the press operations team at...
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Porthleven trio’s Olympic fundraising effort
Two brothers from Porthleven collected plenty of gold, silver and bronze when they fundraised with an Olympic Torch.
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First-aid volunteers tell of Olympics life-saving
Volunteers working as first- aid cycle responders during the Olympic sailing events helped to save the life of a pensioner who suffered a suspected heart attack.Paul Jones, a British Red Cross first aid volunteer, was patrolling the Esplanade in Weymou...
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Truro hospital worker helps save life at Olympic event
A Cornish first aider helped save the life of an 86-year-old Olympic spectator recently after he suffered a suspected heart attack.
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Falmouth firm’s Olympic success story
THE Olympics may be over, but for one Falmouth company, the memories of the games will linger on forever.
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Ainslie ‘would love fifth gold’
Cornwall's Ben Ainslie hints that he is targeting a fifth Olympic gold medal in 2016
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Will Ben Ainslie go for gold at Rio 2016?
Despite saying he was unlikely to try for a fifth Olympic Gold, Ben Ainslie has hinted that he will targeting another medal in 2016.
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Mawgan fete welcomes Olympic guest
While the Olympics has been the theme of choice for countless community events this summer, few can boast their very own Olympian presence – apart from Mawgan Parish Church.
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Olympic golden girls to take on pilot gig racers
Olympic golden girl Helen Glover will be back in Cornwall to put her rowing skills to the test against a uniquely home-grown sport.The Penzance-born gold medallist will be part of a team taking on the crew of a Cornish pilot gig.The event will be stage...
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Olympic counties: Does it matter where medal-winners come from?
A breakdown of Team GB's Olympic success reveals some areas with more prizes
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Free activity sessions for learning disabled
To celebrate the Olympic success of 2012's summer of sport Cornwall’s leisure centres are inviting people with a learning disability, their carers and support workers to try out the
facilities of their local leisure centre free of char...
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We salute our Westcountry Olympic heroes
Their names now blaze brightly in the pages of Olympic history.After years of punishing training regimes Westcountry athletes clinched a glittering collection of medals for the nation's display cabinet.The haul included three gold, one silver and a br...
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Daley dedicates bronze to father
British diver Tom Daley dedicates his Olympic bronze medal to his late father, Rob.
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