Keeping up to date with UK sports information
Keeping up to date with sports information from the UK has never been easier. The wide coverage of sports – from radio and television to newspapers and online – means that information is always to hand and is constantly being updated.
It is understood that the most popular sport in the UK and the one that receives the most coverage, is football. You only have to think about the breadth of coverage any time the England team qualify for a major tournament to understand how phenomenally popular football is and how intense the level of support can be.
Moving away from football, other popular sports in the UK include rugby, cricket and athletics. The success of the 2012 London Olympic Games brought home to many people in the UK the popularity of athletics, and the country’s medal winners were rightly hailed throughout the country. Cycling has also become a very popular sport to follow, not least since Sir Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France in 2012 and then enjoyed Olympic success.
If you want to follow some individual sports events in the UK, some of the better known and most covered in terms of media and public interest include the Open Golf Championship, or British Open, which takes place in July of each year; the Wimbledon Tennis Championships; the Grand National horse race at Aintree; and the FA Cup Final.
An exciting aspect of keeping up to date with sports information is to track what various UK sports personalities are doing. The UK has produced some of the world’s highest-profile sports stars in recent decades, from David Beckham to Andy Murray and from Ellen MacArthur to Lewis Hamilton.
Many of the county’s best-known sports people have Twitter accounts, which you can follow, but in any case, the newspapers and other media outlets are never short of an opinion or two from some of those involved in sports in the UK.
Take the example of Max Mosley, the one-time president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body overseeing Formula One and other motorsports. Mosley, a former amateur motorsport driver himself, was at the heart of motorsport for decades and retains a key interest in all matters motorsport related. Max Mosley’s comments on the crash involving Formula One driver Jules Bianchi, in which he collided with a recovery vehicle during the Japanese Grand Prix in October 2014, resulting in serious injuries, caught many people’s attention. Mosley was a key player in the improvement of safety standards in Formula One, so his assertion that officials were not to blame for a crash he called a “freak accident” was very relevant.
Keeping up to date with information on sports in the UK is easy, but comments such as those made by Max Mosley are a good example of why, with so much information out there, you gain so much more insight into a particular sport by following the comments of someone who has played a central role in the sport itself.
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