By Tom DegunOctober 25 - Five-time Paralympic equestrian gold medallist Sophie Christiansen has visited youngsters at David Lloyd Maidenhead fresh of the back of her star turn at the London 2012 Paralympics.

cerebral palsy, stormed to three gold medals at Greenwich Park during the Paralympics in the individual, team

Sophie Christiansen won three gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympics in the individual, team and

freestyle dressage events Christiansen was one of 36 David Lloyd athletes selected for Team GB and ParalympicsGB

25 - England women's national football coach Hope Powell says a way must be found to allow a unified Team

GB squad to participate in future Olympic Games to help develop the sport.

, the Football Association (FA) announced that the Olympics would no longer feature a British men's team

GB must be allowed to participate at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and thereafter."

GB."

The challenge will obviously be how we get a Team GB – if the principle is agreed."

Those Team GB games told me there was a potential appetite for people to come and watch women's football

sport and that the public vote will be adversely affected by the revelations.We are assured that all Team

GB Olympic cyclists and those with Team Sky are clean as the proverbial whistle.But after what we have

daughter of an Olympian, too – the former Wolves and England footballer Bill Slater who represented Team

GB at the Helsinki 1952 Games).Other redoubtable women on the panel are Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Denise

Sports Personality of the Year (might as well hand that to Usain Bolt now); Coach of the Year; and Team

By Mike RowbottomOctober 23 - Britain's short track speed skater Elise Christie has established herself as world number one over 1,000 metres after her performances in the weekend's 2012-2013 campaign opener in Calgary.

consistently skating 1:28's during the course of the weekend.Stuart Horsepool, performance director of GB

The rest of the team struggled with the fast paced set on the Canadian ice.Olivier Jean (C) of Canada

finishes in their events, but were disappointed not to reach an individual final.In the men's relay, the team

overtaking the Russians, who went on to win silver in the final.Horsepool said: "It has been hard for the team

By Tom DegunOctober 23 - British taekwondo star Jade Jones has admitted she is looking to regain her motivation for a big 2013 after she became Britain's first ever Olympic champion in the sport at London 2012.

The two medals we won at the Games (with Lutalo Muhammad also winning taekwondo bronze for Team GB in

By Tom Degun at The Savoy in LondonOctober 18 - British boxing star Nicola Adams has made yet more history after the lightweight became the first female fighter ever to receive an award from the Boxing Writers' Club.

I particularly want to thank Rob McCracken at GB Boxing and Alwyn Belcher who coached me when I first

It's been an amazing year for me and the GB Boxing team."

By Tom DegunOctober 16 - Sebastian Coe is set to be elected as the new British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman next month after Richard Leman, his sole rival for the prestigious position, announced his withdrawal from the race for the role.

Leman, the President of GB Hockey and a member of the gold medal winning Team GB men's hockey squad at

Having had the opportunity to compete for Team GB at the Olympic Games, I have always viewed my service

45 minutes in the Olympic Stadium when Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford struck gold for Team

GB in track and field; David Weir's astonishing performances on the track and in the marathon.These

By Mike RowbottomOctober 15 - Amanda Reddin, who coached Beth Tweddle to Olympic, world and European success, has been named head national coach for British Gymnastics' women's artistic programme.

development, takes up her appointment on November 1, with the first task being to put in place a coaching team

Reddin – who herself competed at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics – has led the club to multiple British team

at world level for Great Britain.In 2002, Reddin was named UK Coach of the Year and she has been a Team

GB coach at four Olympic Games."

three of the five members of the 2012 Olympic team."

By Mike RowbottomOctober 14 - Britain's Olympic and Paralympic rowers will return to Dorney Lake as part of a one-off event to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

venue on Saturday October 20 and Sunday October 21 as a special event to mark the Jubilee year.Team GB

set to step down from the position at the end of this month after leading the ParalympicsGB archery team

Hazel (pictured top) has been in the position for six years and after leading the British team to medal

But I live in South Wales, which is a fair drive to Lilleshall (where Archery GB is based), and I spend

Archery GB has already begun the search for Hazell's replacement to lead the senior elite programme."

I think that over the past six years GB Paralympians have set the standards for the rest of the world

Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010.She subsequently won a gold medal in the Indian capital in the women's team

We won the three-tournament European GP Series, coach Russell Earnshaw led a GB Students side to the

would expect all the other rival teams to have ticked those boxes as well as we have.England Sevens team

In defence they try to stay connected as a team and force errors or lead teams into areas in which they

run as well as possible and it's a process you have to invest time in to turn a great team of players

into a team that is great.

By Mike RowbottomOctober 12 - Double Commonwealth champion David Carry has announced his retirement from swimming after ending his career at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

I have made so many amazing friends on the team and have shared some big highs and lows with them and

2006, he has shown real fighting spirit and dogged determination to maintain his place amongst the GB

swimming altogether as he begins his new role with Red Sky Management in Edinburgh, as part of the Red APL team

I will be part of the team who deliver high performance experiences where sports and business come together

By Tom DegunOctober 10 - Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) President Pat Hickey has claimed that golf star Rory McIlroy can carry the Irish flag at the Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony if he represents the country at the Games.

You know it was over two years ago when Rory made some rash comments about representing Team GB," he

By Andrew WarshawOctober 9 - The Olympic football tournament will no longer feature a men's British team

Despite Team GB reaching the quarterfinals at London 2012, the move will not be repeated at the next

However, Horne said that a British women's team in four years' time was not out of the question."

At London 2012, Britain fielded a football team at the Olympics for the first time since 1960, although

at Munich 1972 an all-British team was knocked out in the qualifying stage.Contact the writer of this