Sport

If at first you don’t succeed, switch sports and try again. That’s the motto for Shrewsbury’s Nick Beighton as he looks to finally get hold of a Paralympic medal.

Alderley Edge’s Isobel Wardle will collect her GCSE results like every other Year 11 student this week, but the Cheadle Hulme pupil will do so knowing that, whatever happens, she has had the best summer of her budding golf career.

There was to be no golden goodbye to these most storied of Olympic Games, when mining medals seemed, at times, almost ridiculously easy.

Team GB are already guaranteed at least one medal on the final day of competition at Rio 2016 when Joe Joyce goes in the super-heavyweight boxing final.

The Rio 2016 Olympics might be winding down but Team GB showed they are not taking their foot off the pedal as they were able to celebrate their most successful away Games ever following the conclusion of the penultimate day of action.

As golden as the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been for Team GB the penultimate day of action has the potential to be another memorable one.

Day 14 started out slowly but turned into an absolute cracker for Team GB as Britain’s women’s hockey outfit and showjumper Nick Skelton secured historic golds.

Great Britain’s women hockey players have already created history, but on Day 14 they will be looking to finish the job off as they go for gold at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

Alistair Brownlee became the first athlete to secure successive Olympic triathlon titles as he and brother Jonny secured a fantastic one-two on Day 13 of Rio 2016.

Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark may have had to wait an extra 24 hours but they should finally collect their sailing gold for Team GB on an exciting day 13 at Rio 2016.

Great Britain were celebrating a first-ever Olympic hockey final on day 12 as their women’s side beat New Zealand 3-0 to set up a showdown for gold with the Netherlands.