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RFU chief rules out Sir Clive's return

  • Rugby Sevens

By Tom DegunOctober 9 - Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief executive Ian Ritchie has ruled out an imminent return to Twickenham for Sir Clive Woodward, who left his post as director of sport at the British Olympic Association (BOA) last week.

World Cup-winning coach left the BOA after six years with the body, the highlight coming when he helped Team

GB to a record-breaking performance at the London 2012 Olympics as Deputy Chef de Mission as they won

futureThe RFU is currently advertising for a head of athletic performance to work with the England team

will continue to chair the British Judo review panel and I am also delighted to accept a role as a Team

GB Ambassador, this along with my position on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Entourage Commission


Caborn spearheads key changes Amateur Boxing of England

  • Boxing

By Tom DegunOctober 9 - Richard Caborn, the new chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE), has spearheaded a number of key changes to the way the organisation is governed as part of an on-going process of modernisation.

about reforming the body.The reforms are designed to capitalise on the success of the British boxing team

shows a rise of 30 per cent since 2008.At the elite level, four of the five boxers who won a medal for Team

GB at the London Olympics came through the ABAE's talent systems.In total, the ABAE's talent systems


David Owen: Why British Olympic sport may miss a man it should have made better use of

  • Inside the Blogs

old leading article from The Times the other day.It was published exactly 100 years ago and bemoaned Team

GB, saying: "Post London 2012 is the right time for me to leave the BOA".Sir Clive Woodward talks at

sports, including team events in sports we usually conceive of as individual, such as athletics and

GB in the first dozen years of the 21st century yet more spectacular.After all, our Olympic team sports

GB ambassador and will continue to chair the British judo review panel).Matching that 65-medal home


The journey of a London 2012 Games Maker

  • The Big Read

By Mike RowbottomMy friend Russell was one of the 70,000 whose efforts as Games Makers helped the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics run as smoothly as in a happy dream. His task was to oversee a part of the cycling course for the road racing and time trial events, which meant that, as a long-time cycling enthusiast, he had the opportunity to watch some of his heroes and heroines whizzing past while, of course, making 100 per cent sure that all was in order roadside.Russell's Olympic journey was probably typical of that made by many of his fellow volunteers, and...

This was followed up by Cadbury's attempt at 'Let's have a team game and do some jumping up and down'

really is truly awful.Greg Rutherford of Great Britain won gold in men's long jump as he wears the Team

GB kit"The Team GB kit is nearly wonderful, but again the new 2012 agenda pushes it too far, rendering

Someone in the crowd had an iPad with a TV feed, so we could keep up with the race and we knew GB had

It was as if Danny Boyle and his team were saying 'Forget all the doom-mongers, the people who doubt


Alan Hubbard: Let's not forget to thank Major, Clegg and the late Welch for the success of London 2012

  • Inside the Blogs

dedication but all have acknowledged how much they owe to the support they have received from coaches, team

governing bodies and stakeholders, producing a blueprint of an aspirational target of fourth place for GB

Winter Games Clegg parted company with the BOA at the end of 2008, succeeded both as chief executive and Team

GB Chef de Mission by Andy Hunt, whose own position is now believed to be under threat as winds of change


British Bobsleigh names teams for new season

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

By Mike RowbottomSeptember 30 - British Bobsleigh has announced its team selections for the upcoming

, followed by the Junior World Championships from December 17-22 in Cesana, Italy.The women's GBR 1 team

The second British team is driven by Victoria Olaoye, while Mica McNeill, who took silver in last season's

Paula Walker (front) will lead the Great Britain 1 women's team"This is the first time for many years

The Performance team will be joined this year by the former Swiss head coach, Dominik Scherer, as head

leading bobsleigh mechanics.Lee Johnson has now taken up full-time responsibility for development of GB


Christie seeks action replay as GB short track skaters get season underway in Heerenveen

  • Skating

By Mike RowbottomSeptember 27 - British short track speed skater Elise Christie, included in the team

The Invitation Cup will be fantastic for the team to get some serious racing in ahead of the World Cup

Unfortunately Mari Deland, who got her GB squad qualification time at the trials, will not be able to

travel with the team to Holland due to injury."


My Favourite Pin Story - Scott Daniells

  • My Favourite Pin Story

However as he was wearing a Team GB hat, t-shirt, shorts, shoes, had a Union Jack painted on his face

and was waving a Team GB flag I gave him a Team GB pin that I had managed to pick up as he didn't have


Mike Rowbottom: Please let Shelley Rudman have the luck that Wilf O'Reilly didn't get in a third Olympics

  • Inside the Blogs

That is, short track speed skating, whose British team members earned seven World Cup medals last season

– to draw inspiration from it.Among those who took the opportunity of visiting the Olympic Village, Team

GB House and to various practice sessions was Shelley Rudman, who took Olympic silver in the skeleton

distance of it, however, she needs to negotiate a critical season which will start for her and her team-mates

separated by two years – he came to Lillehammer with ambitions still burning brightly, although his young team-mate


Sir Chris Hoy to help promote track cycling in Glasgow

  • Cycling

By Tom DegunSeptember 25 - Britain's most decorated Olympian Sir Chris Hoy is set to help spearhead a campaign to promote the sport of track cycling in Glasgow ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the Scottish city.

one of the stars of the London 2012 this summer when he claimed two gold medals in the keirin and the team

Following the GB team's outstanding success at London 2012, and building on this legacy to Glasgow and

forward to supporting the Glasgow schools legacy programme and I'll be in the Velodrome to cheer on the GB

team."


British Wrestling begins shake-up after London 2012

  • Wrestling

By Duncan MackaySeptember 24 - British Wrestlng, widely criticised in the build-up to London 2012 for recruiting foreign athletes to represent Britain at the Olympics, have begun the process of rebuilding following the resignation of performance director Shaun Morley and the sacking of head coach Nikolai Kornieiev.

were behind the controversial policy of recruiting Ukranian and Bulgarian-born athletes to represent Team

GB at London 2012.

Morley, Shaun's father, the chairman of British Wrestling, has refused to criticise the high performance team

bid failed to come through in time for London 2012, but both she and Butkevych are due to be the only GB


Lottery funding provides boost for future of British deaf sport

  • Latest

By Emily GoddardSeptember 24 - UK Deaf Sport is set to receive more than £125,000 ($203,000/€157,000) in National Lottery funding ahead of next year's Deaflympics – a welcome boost following the withdrawal of funds from UK Sport in 2008.

, the new investment from Sport England will come as a welcome injection of funds to support the UK Team

UK Deaf Sport will do its utmost to make it another successful summer for a British sporting team when

doubles gold medal for more than 50 years and Britain's only gold of the Taipei 2009 DeaflympicsA British team

the last Deaflympics in 2009, competing in eight sports and winning 10 medals, with a similar sized team

next year's event.Sport England's chief executive Jennie Price added: "The phenomenal performances of GB


Brown becomes first Paralympic athlete to compete in archery World Cup final

  • Archery

By Duncan MackaySeptember 21 - Britain's Danielle Brown will make another slice of sporting history when she becomes the Paralympian to feature in archery's World Cup final at Hibiya Park in Tokyo after being given a late wildcard. 

able-bodied event at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and won a gold medal in the women's compound team

Games experience has boosted my chances of glory at London 2012, says Danielle BrownAugust 2011: GB


New British ice sledge hockey squad named

  • Para Ice Hockey News

By David GoldSeptember 20 - Britain has announced a 16-strong ice sledge hockey squad for the 2012-2013 season as the race to qualify for the Sochi 2014 Paralympics heats up.

qualified for at Turin 2006.Caroline Bonner, the captain of the European women's ice sledge hockey team

The development of the GB Sledge Hockey programme has been amazing and we aim to demonstrate that Paralympic

success doesn't just happen in the summer," team manager Red Geddes said.The squad will now prepare

Our target has always been to develop a team capable of winning a medal by the 2018 Paralympic Games


Restructuring leaves Sir Clive Woodward's future at BOA in doubt

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackaySeptember 19 - A planned restructuring at the British Olympic Association (BOA) following London 2012 could put the future of several leading figures, including Sir Clive Woodward, in doubt.

has been criticised for the failure to get the dozens of London 2012 sponsors to commit to backing Team

GB beyond this year.

travel to Brazil with Sir Clive tomorrow when the BOA begin the search for a pre-Games training camp for Team

GB in the build-up to Rio 2016.