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Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: ‘I want to show the world that refugees can do anything’
Sport

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: ‘I want to show the world that refugees can do anything’

Boxer Cindy Ngamba was the first person ever to win an Olympic medal for the refugee team. She speaks to the Big Issue about her incredible journey from being a Cameroonian refugee in the UK to stepping into the boxing ring at the Olympics

‘We’re going to war’: Meet the wheelchair rugby stars ‘normalising disability’ at the Paralympics
Paralympics

‘We’re going to war’: Meet the wheelchair rugby stars ‘normalising disability’ at the Paralympics

Perceptions around disabled sports are changing, not least thanks to awareness of tough, contact sports such as wheelchair rugby

Privately-educated athletes ‘significantly over-represented’ among Team GB’s Olympic heroes
Paris Olympics 2024

Privately-educated athletes ‘significantly over-represented’ among Team GB’s Olympic heroes

Team GB’s Paris 2024 Olympics medal winners featured a ‘disproportionately overrepresented’ number of athletes who attended private schools, according to analysis from the Sutton Trust

Could London follow Paris’ Olympic efforts and make River Thames clean enough to swim?
Rivers

Could London follow Paris’ Olympic efforts and make River Thames clean enough to swim?

Paris Olympics: ‘The city is under siege. I just want it all to be over’
Robert McLiam Wilson

Paris Olympics: ‘The city is under siege. I just want it all to be over’

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