By Tom DegunSeptember 18 - More than three quarters of disabled people in the United Kingdom feel undervalued by society despite the positivity surrounding the London 2012 Paralympic Games, research suggests.

Paralympian David Weir shows his four gold medals as he takes part in the London 2012 Victory Parade for Team

GB and ParalympicGB athletesThe survey, which questioned 351 people with disabilities before the Games

I'm contracted to GB until 2013. I'll be an amateur going into next year anyway, whatever happens."

that accelerated the Beijing three's decision to defect.The departure of Derek Mapp from BABA may see Team

fight pro career seems to have reached an impasse.So there's a puncher's chance we may still see all Team

By Tom DegunSeptember 15 -  The 70,000 Games Maker volunteers, so widely praised for helping to make the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games a huge success, are set to be honoured with a special limited edition stamp, the Royal Mail have announced.

fireworks display during the Paralympic Opening Ceremony and a First Class stamp shows the ParalympicsGB team

September 27"Royal Mail has been delighted to mark the build-up to the Games and the successes of the Team

GB and ParalympicsGB gold-medal winning athletes with a series of stamp issues," said Andrew Hammond

Coe.The final London 2012 stamps come after Royal Mail produce stamps to celebrate each individual or team

By Mike RowbottomSeptember 15 - Great Britain's male and female handball teams may have failed to progress from the group stages at the London 2012 Olympics, but the value of their individual players to the European game has been emphasised since the Games finished as members of both squads have either joined or resumed playing with professional clubs.

twice in their second win, 36-23 against FIF, which helped make her the second top scorer so far in a team

Fairbrother is also in Denmark, where she returned to Esbjerg for another season.She will face her GB

21-20 opening win over Silkeborg.Marie Gerbron is now playing handball in NorwayOther members of the GB

women's handball team include Marie Gerbron, who is now playing with Bravo Håndballklubb Tromsø in Norway

men's Olympic handball team are also back in action, with Mark Hawkins returning to Aftureldingar in

chair an independent review of British Judo following the criticism it received during London 2012 over Team

the Olympics, British Judo Association (BJA) chairman Densign White criticised some members of the team

elite performance expert and consultant who most recently served as head of performance services for Team

GB at the London Games.The BJA has announced it is "delighted with the calibre of the panel members

By Tom DegunSeptember 14 - Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell will be the keynote speaker at the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) Girls Go Gold conference this month, which is designed to encourage young female athletes to reach their full potential in their chosen sport.

Kingdom who it is hoped will be inspired by the recent success of London 2012.Seven of the medals won by Team

GB at the London 2012 Olympics were won by GSA alumnae and this year, the conference will take place

By David GoldSeptember 12 - Ireland's Jason Smyth, who won the T13 100 and 200 metres titles at the London 2012 Paralympics, will not be rewarded for his success by having a post box in his hometown painted gold.

Royal Mail had promised to paint a post box for every member of Team GB that won a gold medal at the

Roulston from Royal Mail responded: "Royal Mail announced in June that it was to mark the achievements of Team

GB and ParalympicsGB by issuing gold medal stamps for gold medal winners and painting a post box gold

post box gold in the athlete's home town"We were clear that this tribute was for athletes representing Team

GB and ParalympicsGB."

Duncan MackaySeptember 11 - Charles van Commenee is to step down as UK Athletics head coach after the team

contract expires in December.Van Commenee said he would quit as a "matter of creditability" unless the team

at least eight medals in athletics including a minimum of one gold.Despite being widely praised, the team

GB won three gold medals in the space of an hourDe Vos and Warner had hoped that van Commenee would

"But now it needs the new energy and approach by the new leadership team through to 2017."

"I look forward to seeing the future successes for the GB and Northern Ireland team through to Rio and

By Tom Degun at the Queen Victoria Memorial in LondonSeptember 10 - A million flag-waving supporters lined London's streets today to salute the British heroes from this summer's Olympic and Paralympic Games in what was an historic day in the capital.

Featuring around 700 Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes aboard 21 giant floats, British stars including

display followed the speeches in a fitting climax to what has been a wonderful London 2012 that saw both Team

GB and ParalympicsGB finish third on their respective medals tables.The parade set out from Mansion

2012 victory parade, bottom of our agenda, says Paralympic chiefAugust 2012: Timings revealed for Team

GB and ParalympicsGB London 2012 victory paradeAugust 2012: Team GB and ParalympicsGB set for London

By David GoldSeptember 10 - Britain looks set to have the opportunity to be represented in basketball at future Olympic Games despite the objections of Wales.

Wales, Scotland and England joined together to form a British team for this summer's Games after the

Both have given up something extremely important to them for the benefit of the game in the UK.Team GB

seven years at the BOA helm has encompassed the most successful Olympic performances by a British team

Still active as a sportsman at 50, he won a silver medal with the fencing team at the 1906 Intercalated

defied the British Government to send a teamAs a result of the efforts of Follows and others a British team

BOA does not regard it as appropriate to select athletes or other individuals for accreditation to Team

GB who have at any point committed a serious doping offence".Current BOA chairman Lord Moynihan listens

By Tom DegunSeptember 8 - David Stone claimed the final ParalympicsGB cycling medal of London 2012 as he produced a superb display to defend his mixed T1-2 road race title at Brands Hatch.

The success enabled Britain to top the Paralympic cycling medals table – just as Team GB did in the Olympics

Formula One driver Alex Zanardi ended his fairytale story at the Games with silver in the mixed H 1-4 team

Brands Hatch, the famous motor-racing circuit.And he only just missed out on a hat-trick as his Italian team

medallists the United States and ahead of third-placed Switzerland in the 18km race.The triumphant US team

By David GoldSeptember 8 - Bob Watson, a member of honour of the European Hockey Federation (EHF) and a key figure in the British game, as well as a former treasurer of the British Olympic Association (BOA), has died after a long fight with illness at the age of 78.

Bob Watson's influential role in "professionalising" hockey helped Stephen Batchelor (foregound) and Team

GB strike gold at the Seoul 1988 OlympicsEHF President Marijke Fleuren said: "In the modern age of the

By David Gold at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonSeptember 6 - Britain's Paralympians have achieved their total London 2012 medal target, surpassing the total from Beijing four years ago.

It is testament to the talent, dedication and skill of the athletes who make up the team as well as to

With funding already secured for Paralympics GB in the run up to Rio I am confident that disability sport

By Mike RowbottomSeptember 6 - Today Helena Lucas struck a blow for the home nation – and women – as she won sailing gold in the 2.4mR class as the only female in the field, and Britain secured a further bronze at the Weymouth and Portland venue as world champions Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell finished third in the SKUD class on a day when lack of winds prevented further racing.

crew had been just one point behind second-placed Germany but received a four-point penalty after the team

ParalympicsGB commented: "The GB team is hugely disappointed that the medals at a Paralympic sailing

bronze medallist was careful not to take anything for granted having seen the Olympic experience of Team

GB colleagues Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson, who were seven points ahead before the medal race but lost

Sailing medal since the sport joined the full Games programme at Sydney 2000 but the British Sonar team