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The US women's team pose with their swimming silver medals

Madden helps USA to team silver in thrilling Women’s 4x200m event

Current 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 student Paige Madden helped the United States to silver in an absorbing Women’s 4x200m Relay Final in Paris.

1 August 2024

Alumna Annie Campbell-Orde with her silver medal

Alumna Annie Campbell-Orde wins superb rowing bronze

麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 alumna Annie Campbell-Orde struck a brilliant bronze in Paris as part of Great Britain women’s eight rowing side.

3 August 2024

Great Britain's Samuel Reardon, Laviai Nielsen, Alex Haydock-Wilson and Amber Anning celebrate after winning a bronze medal

Loughborough take stunning double bronze on exhilarating night in Paris

Loughborough athletes added another two bronze medals to the tally after an electrifying night in Paris.

3 August 2024

Daniel Wiffen poses with his bronze medal

Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen wins 1500m Freestyle bronze

Daniel Wiffen’s incredible Paris campaign continued after securing his second medal of the games in the Men’s 1500m Freestyle.

4 August 2024

Beth Potter and Alex Yee pose with their bronze medals

Potter and Yee bring home bronze in Triathlon Mixed Team Relay

Triathletes Beth Potter and Alex Yee won a battling bronze for Great Britain after a thrilling Mixed Team Relay Final in Paris.

5 August 2024

Great Britain's Katy Marchant, Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell celebrate with their gold medals won in the Women's Team Sprint finals

Sophie Capewell smashes world record to win gold

An incredible ride from cyclist Sophie Capewell helped Great Britain's Women’s Team Sprint break the world record to win a glorious gold in Paris.

5 August 2024

Children playing football in the sunshine

Loughborough helps outline potential roadmap to UK Capital of Sport

A partnership, involving 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网, has helped outline the potential roadmap to making a UK Capital of Sport a reality.

7 August 2024

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Every day travellers across the globe are flocking to popular destinations, eager to relax and create memories.

7 August 2024

New discovery fundamentally changes the way we understand Charles Darwin’s most beloved plant – the sundew

A new study has found a symbiotic relationship that has evolved between Darwin’s favourite carnivorous plant and a specific type of fungus which lives inside it and helps it digest its prey.

13 August 2024

a line of police stand in debris thrown during a riot

The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and Wales

The violent unrest that has caused so much damage in the UK has not in fact happened across the UK. It has almost been exclusively confined to England.

9 August 2024

Katarina Johnson-Thompson poses with the British flag

Three more medals secured for Loughborough on a historic night in Paris

Loughborough-linked athletes won three more medals on a historic night for athletics in Paris.

9 August 2024

The full GB team celebrate with their 4x400m bronze medals

Brilliant bronze for Loughborough in Men’s 4x400m Relay

Loughborough athletes were instrumental in the Men’s 4x400m Relay, helping Great Britain to win a stirring bronze medal on the penultimate night of sporting action in Paris.

10 August 2024

Loughborough closes out the first stage of the games with 16 medals

As the curtain comes down on two weeks of thrilling sporting action in Paris, Loughborough-linked athletes will return home with an incredible 16 medals – three more than Tokyo 2020 with the Paralympic Games still to come.

11 August 2024

silhouette of a woman writing with a quill

The Amorous Prince by Aphra Behn was the #MeToo play of the 17th century

Seventeenth-century writer Aphra Behn (1640-89) made her name in London’s theatre world as the playwright who provided the Duke’s Theatre Company (the theatre company chartered by King Charles II at the start of the Restoration era) with some of its biggest hits.

13 August 2024

US election 2024: how Trump and Vance are trying to weaponise Kamala Harris’s multiracial identity

“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now, she wants to be known as Black.”

15 August 2024

Strongman Eddie Hall in a science lab carrying out a jumping test with two academics.

Eddie Hall case study: Scientists investigate the secrets behind former World’s Strongest Man winner’s super strength

Scientists from 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 have been able to investigate the phenomenal power of former World’s Strongest Man winner and deadlift champion, Eddie Hall.

1 September 2024

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Nottingham Forest to play the Club’s B Team home games at 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 Stadium

Nottingham Forest is delighted to confirm that the Club’s B Team home games will be played at 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 Stadium for the 2024/25 season.

16 August 2024

A picture of a satellite in space, covered in solar panels.

New research project to create ultra-lightweight solar cells for space applications

A research collaboration between Loughborough and Cambridge Universities has been set up to develop ultra-lightweight solar cells for use in space applications.

21 August 2024

Boozy science: Mathematicians unlock the secrets of ouzo’s cloudy transformation

Mathematicians at 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 have turned their attention to a fascinating observation that has intrigued scientists and cocktail enthusiasts alike: the mysterious way ouzo, a popular anise-flavoured liquor, turns cloudy when water is added.

22 August 2024

a wheelchair tennis player playing a shot from the baseline

麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 research paves the way for wheelchair tennis success in Paris (VIDEO)

With the Paralympic Games just a few days away, Professor Vicky Tolfrey has discussed how 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 research has positively impacted wheelchair tennis performance.

22 August 2024

a female wheelchair rugby player playing in a match

麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 researchers collaborate with World Wheelchair Rugby

Over the last several months, 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网 research has been taking place to support World Wheelchair Rugby’s (WWR) commitment and strategy to increasing female participation in the sport.

23 August 2024

Olivia Breen: “Any kind of medal in Paris would be amazing” (VIDEO)

Going into her fourth Paralympic Games, 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网-based athlete Olivia Breen has eyes on another podium place.

28 August 2024

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Jonathan Broom-Edwards: “'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins' changed my mental resilience” (VIDEO)

In preparation for the 2024 Paralympics athlete Jonathan Broom-Edwards has shared his training regime and mindset as he embarks on a third consecutive Games.

28 August 2024

Tom Young: The defending Paralympic champion now has all eyes on Paris (VIDEO)

After winning a stunning gold medal in Japan three years ago, T38 sprinter Tom Young is ready to defend his title at the Paralympic Games in Paris.

29 August 2024

Great Britain's Tully Kearney (centre) on the podium with the gold medal after winning the Women's 200m Freestyle - S5 Final,

Kearney clinches Loughborough’s first gold at the 2024 Paralympic Games

Tully Kearney stormed to victory in the Women’s 200m Freestyle S5 to secure Loughborough’s first gold medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.