The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Some of Britain's greatest athletes have come out of retirement to champion the London Olympics in 2012 by taking part in a display of art.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes is transformed into a work of art to launch the Cultural Olympiad.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes is to be transformed into a work of art to launch the Cultural Olympiad.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
MERSEYSIDE athletes David Forrester and Chris Smith have received some training tips from former Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Barack Obama played basketball the morning of his victory in the Iowa primary, and continued the tradition in every subsequent primary. The athlete Kelly Holmes laid her kit out in an exact order the night before a race. Superstitious habits are common; who doesn't cross their fingers, start at the sight of a black cat, touch wood and avoid walking under ladders?
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Dame Kelly Holmes talks about winning double gold at the Athen Olympics and how it changed her life.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Should young Becky Adlington, our splendid double gold medallist swimmer, be given a damehood in the next honours list? The very question is absurd, let alone the answers it elicited in a debate on Five Live the other morning. Unfortunately, Kelly Holmes had earlier dared to suggest that Adlington was perhaps a little on the youthful side, with much yet to achieve, which prompted some listeners to...
edblog (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
It was Day 12 of the Beijing Olympics yesterday, which meant I got so engrossed in my oil painting of a naked Jill Douglas ravishing Dame Kelly Holmes I forgot to do any blogging of Sports Issues. It was quite a piece of bad timing, because yesterday was another notable day of Sports Happenings. The big news was Usain Bolt, for once in his life running as fast as he could for the entire distance, in...
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
PM Gordon Brown and Dame Kelly Holmes are lending their support to netball's bid to become a participation sport at the Olympics.
Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Amazingly, it is already four years since I was hired to entertain our Olympic athletes at the coming home party after the Games in Athens in 2004. It was an exhilarating event held in the toy store, Hamleys, in London. Big names such as Tim Henman, Kelly Holmes and Paula Radcliffe were absent, but I had the honour meeting many of the events top rowers, yachtswomen and Amir Khan, the champion boxing...
Buzz Patrol (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Move over Kelly Holmes, the U.K’s new Olympic sweetheart is Becky Adlington. The 19 year old had already secured her Gold medal in the 400 m freestyle. BUT on Super Saturday our new heroine broke the world record to win her second gold in the 800 m freestyle. Do we hear Dam Becky Adlington? Or [...]
The Sun (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
KELLY HOLMES says Paula Radcliffe’s poisonous spider bite could be a lucky omen
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Rebecca Adlington is on the verge of a middle-distance double comparable to Kelly Holmes in Athens four years ago.
The Sun (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
MEDAL winner Dame Kelly Holmes gives her tips for fighting obesity as Olympics kicks off
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
and the top 80 suggestions have been listed at and it'??s interesting to note that in that list is a certain Dame Kelly Holmes at Athens 2004 which just goes to prove that the Olympics are the ultimate for sporting emotion.
