Nicole Cooke

...a century. They came fourth in the overall medals table. Those honoured afresh Wednesday included cyclists Victoria Pendleton, Nicole Cooke, Edward Clancy, Jason Kenny and Rebecca Romero; sailors Ben Ainslie, Philippa Wilson, Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb; athlete...

...left out of Wales summer matches instead of Mark Jones and Mike Phillips’ nightclub antics. Phew! BLUES medical student Jamie Roberts has made the transition to international rugby after playing four different positions in his first four internationals. Blues...

...Peter Edwards 10 years ago but it was only completed last year. His portrait joins NHS founder Aneurin Bevan, poet Dylan Thomas and former rugby star Barry John and is expected to go on show next month. Library spokesman Paul Joyner said: "Ryan is an example...

...VIPs, whose identities are not revealed until the last minute, have included Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Nicole Cooke, 100m runner Christian Malcolm and Wales rugby players Stephen Jones, Martyn Williams and Neil Jenkins. This year, Rhondda Cynon Taf...

...Wales Foundation patron. The competition winner takes up his new role alongside Olympic and world women’s cycling champion Nicole Cooke. The pair join the Cardiff-based Kidney Wales’ longstanding patrons Katherine Jenkins, Max Boyce and Gerald Davies. Tim...

...have done this year.” Ellie, who now trains every day at the Swansea pool, was honoured alongside other Welsh sports stars like Nicole Cooke, Geraint Thomas, Tom James and her team mate David Roberts. She added: “When I opened the letter for my MBE it was...

...Cross Keys, in Caerphilly county borough, was a mechanic for Team GB's cyclists in Beijing, working on Welsh gold medallist Nicole Cooke's bike, among others. The 57-year-old has worked full-time for two years helping prepare and maintain bikes for the country's...

...Cooke’s desire for winning has never been easily sated. When she was 11 she won the Welsh cyclo-cross championship and promptly announced on television she wanted to win Olympic gold. Last summer, aged 25, she fulfilled that goal when she won the women’s road...

...of Welsh sports legends Jamie Baulch, Dai Young, Garin Jenkins, Neil Jenkins, Christian Malcolm, Matt Elias, Stephen Jones, Nicole Cooke and Robbie Regan have all been unveiled as the Mystery Runner, whose identity is always kept secret until the last minute. Of...

...One world championship, and Rebecca Adlington, who won two swimming gold medals in Beijing. We will look at Hamilton's claims tomorrow, but now, having said an Olympian should win, we have to assess the strength of Adlington's case. It should be said, first...

...will be stilt walkers in town, funfair rides, fire juggling and street entertainers. This summer’s Olympic gold medallist Nicole Cooke was the 2004 Nos Galan Mystery Runner - and entered Mountain Ash town centre riding her championship bike. “Preparations...

...Rebecca Adlington, Joe Calzaghe, Lewis Hamilton, Victoria Pendleton, Andy Murray, Chris Hoy, Christine Ohuruogu, Phil Taylor, Nicole Cooke and Wayne Rooney. Photographs: Getty Images/EPA/Reuters/Tom Jenkins Your IP address will be logged If you need help...

...country’s athletes can emulate their success at the 2008 Games in Beijing, when athletes including Welsh road cyclist Nicole Cooke and swimmer David Davies won 30 medals – nine of them gold. Jackson said: “We have to give our sports people the opportunity...

...for this year's award - announced from Liverpool on Sunday night - alongside Olympic gold medalists Chris Hoy, Nicole Cooke, Rebecca Adlington and Ben Ainslie, plus Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton. Calzaghe could struggle to make a successful title...

...nominations for this year's award – to be announced in Liverpool on Sunday night - alongside Olympic gold medallists Chris Hoy, Nicole Cooke, Rebecca Adlington, Christine Ohuruogu, Bradley Wiggins, Rebecca Ronmero and Ben Ainslie, plus Formula One world champion Lewis...

...such a brilliant job of personalising glory, in the most beguiling way', James Lawton, Chief Sports Writer, The Independent Nicole Cooke: 'Nicole is a true champion. To be one, you have to have the ability to push yourself beyond the limits of normal human...

...Jim Clark. Clark went one better in 1965, when he won his second world championship, but was pipped by a cyclist, Tom Simpson. Another, longer lean spell for Scots then ensued, until in 1973 along came our second winner, three-time F1 world champion Jackie...

...such a thing as a sailing keepy-uppy, he's be the one bouncing along the ocean wave with a bow balancing on his knee. Nicole Cooke won Britain's first gold in Beijing beneath the ramparts of the Great Wall of China. Has any ball started to roll within the...