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Louis Smith

December 2021

  • BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL. Amber Davies 'Campbell' and Company. Photo Helen Maybanks

    Bring It On: The Musical review – Lin-Manuel Miranda leads the cheer

    Love Island’s Amber Davies tops a charismatic cast, including Olympic gymnast Louis Smith, in a spirited show co-created by the Hamilton man

November 2018

  • Gymnastics - Artistic - Olympics: Day 1<br>RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 06: Louis Smith of Great Britain on the pommel horse in the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Team qualification on Day 1 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Rio Olympic Arena on August 6, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images).

    'I hope my legacy inspires gymnasts' – Olympic medallist Louis Smith retires

    After three Olympics and four medals, pommel-horse specialist Smith has decided not to target Tokyo 2020

January 2017

  • Bradley Wiggins

    ‘Just don’t call me a celebrity’: Bradley Wiggins takes leap with The Jump

    The retired cyclist Bradley Wiggins has signed up for Channel 4’s winter sports-based reality TV show on a lineup that also includes Robbie Fowler, Louis Smith, Jade Jones and Kadeena Cox

November 2016

  • Iman Amrani

    Louis Smith’s ban is just a distraction from Britain's real race issues

    Iman Amrani
    Yes, the gymnast’s drunken antics were Islamophobic, but from Prevent to hate crimes there are far more serious issues facing British Muslims today
  • Marina Hyde

    Sportblog
    Louis Smith’s ban? British Gymnastics needs to get off its high horse

    Marina Hyde
    The Olympic silver medallist has been suspended for two months for what amounts to blasphemy by his sport’s governing body that seems to have an inflated view of its own importance
  • Louis Smith pictured at the Rio Olympics.

    Louis Smith lands British Gymnastics ban after video appearing to mock Islam

    Ban and reprimand follows video showing gymnast and Luke Carson shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’

October 2016

  • The four-time medallist Louis Smith said he apologised to people in the Muslim community for the ‘incredibly offensive’ video.

    Louis Smith misses Olympics celebrations after offensive video

  • Louis Smith

    Louis Smith could be disciplined over video appearing to mock Islam

August 2016

  • Amy Tinkler competes during the floor exercise at the 2016 Olympics

    GB gymnasts have rivalry between men and women, says coach Van Hoof

    Team GB’s men’s gymnastics technical director, Eddie Van Hoof, said after the men’s Olympic success Amy Tinkler’s bronze medal was ‘a huge sense of relief because we are competitive between the two disciplines’

July 2016

  • Greg Rutherford as a superhero flying over London

    Ten to watch: meet Team GB's sporting superheroes

    They won our hearts at London 2012: can Team GB do it again? We salute our top athletes, from Greg Rutherford to Ellie Simmonds, as they fly into Rio for the 2016 Olympics

June 2016

  • Max Whitlock and Louis Smith.

    Louis Smith v Max Whitlock, Rio's hottest rivalry

    Louis Smith left sport for reality TV, now he wants to return to the Olympics. Max Whitlock has overtaken him to become one of the world’s best gymnasts. How are Britain’s men’s team – close friends since childhood – handling the competition?

April 2016

  • British Gymnastics Championships<br>LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - APRIL 10:  Louis Smith wins silver and Max Whitlock wins gold in the Pommel Horse event at the British Gymnastics Championships at the Echo Arena on April 10, 2016 in Liverpool, England.  (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

    Louis Smith apologises for criticising gymnastics judges after defeat

  • Louis Smith and Max Whitlock

    The agenda
    The Agenda: Olympic hopefuls get serious and the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix

October 2015

  • Britain's Max Whitlock performs on the pommel horse during day one of the Women and Men's Apparatus Final at the 2015 World Gymnastics Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 31, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ANDY BUCHANANAndy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

    Max Whitlock pips Louis Smith to world gymnastics gold medal in Glasgow

    Whitlock ended Britain’s 112-year wait for a men’s gold medal at the world championships, beating Smith by 0.1 of a point in the final
  • Gymnastics - World Gymnastics Championships - Practice Day - Glasgow SSE Hydro Arena

    Louis Smith: ‘You can’t put jazz hands on when you do a pommel horse routine’

    The three-times Olympic medallist splits his time between the public eye and the pommel horse having returned to gymnastics, following an extended break after London 2012, for fear of wasting his talent
  • Olympic gymnast Louis Smith.

    Me and my tech
    Louis Smith: ‘There's some messed up stuff on the internet – but porn's all right’

    The Olympic gymnast on living in a ‘brilliant party house’, his 50 pairs of headphones and why he wouldn’t want to travel in a driverless car

April 2015

  • Britain's Louis Smith competes in the Po

    Britain’s Louis Smith wins pommel gold at European Championships

    Gymnast Louis Smith has ended his wait for gold at a major championship after finishing first in the pommel at the European Championships in France

March 2015

  • Daniel-Purvis

    Daniel Purvis crowned champion at British Gymnastics Championships

    Amy Tinkler took the women’s all-round British gymnastic crown at Liv erpool from Claudia Fragapane, while the reigning men’s holder, Max Whitlock, only performed on the bars due to illness

December 2014

  • Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special

    Louis Smith triumphs in Strictly Come Dancing special

    Olympic gymnast wins festive contest overseen by Sir Bruce Forsyth

August 2014

  • Contestants of Tumble

    BBC hopes celebrity gymnastics show Tumble will win ratings gold

    Broadcaster needs new programme judged by Olympian Louis Smith to be a success after Saturday flops
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