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London 2012's legacy will bring "gold for decades', says Mayor

  • London 2012

By David Gold at the London Media CentreAugust 16 - London Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to turn this summer's Olympic and Paralympics into "gold for decades to come" here today.

If we can take our cue from those Team GB athletes who have worked so blindingly hard for this moment


Tickets go on sale for first event at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow

  • Cycling

By Stuart NewmanAugust 16 - Tickets go on sale today for the debut of the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on cycling's international stage when Glasgow hosts a round of the UCI Track World Cup Classics later this year.

Cup also scheduled.The triumvirate of top meetings has enabled British Cycling, in the wake of the Team

action in Britain twice over the next few monthsIt will offer British cycling fans a chance to see the Team

GB stars in international action for the first time since the Olympics as they battle for places in

The Track World Cup Classics in Glasgow promises to be a great spectacle for cycling fans as our GB athletes


John Bicourt: Peering through the golden glow of British athletics only to find dark shadows

  • Inside the Blogs

those who are.So let's look at the performances and results of those members of the British athletics team

achievement would be to tally the points for finishing positions one to eight.On this points table GB

this last four years – is a head coach whose "famously uncompromising approach" was to get the Olympic team

In London Team GB's cyclists secured nine medals – seven gold, one silver and one bronze.If British athletes


Exclusive: Sports Minister wants British football team at Olympics to continue

  • Football

LondonAugust 15 - Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson is refusing to give up on the possibility of Team

GB being represented in future Olympic football tournaments despite the Football Association withdrawing

 "The Team GB [football] experiment has been a great success and added to London 2012 in a way that

Wales.Both the men and women's teams were knocked out in the quarter-finals.But several of the members of Team

GB, including Manchester United's Tom Cleverley, claimed that the event had been a valuable learning

GB football team will impact more on the women, where the Olympics is the pinnacle of the sport.Britain's

celebrates with players after winning their London 2012 match against Brazil at Wembley Hope Powell's team


Royal Mail will put London 2012 Paralympic gold medallists on stamp after U-turn

  • London 2012 Paralympics

former Olympics Minister Dame Tessa Jowell and will produce stamps to celebrate each individual or team

town.Royal Mail had not planned to do the same for the Paralympics and were instead proposing to feature the Team

GB winners on a series of six stamps instead that would not be available until several weeks after the

The stamps for Team GB's gold medallists have been such an emblematic part of our celebrations during


Royal Mail will put London 2012 Paralympic gold medallists on stamp after U-turn

  • Collecting and Heritage News

former Olympics Minister Dame Tessa Jowell and will produce stamps to celebrate each individual or team

town.Royal Mail had not planned to do the same for the Paralympics and were instead proposing to feature the Team

GB winners on a series of six stamps instead that would not be available until several weeks after the

the Royal Mail to change their mind and issue stamps featuring each Paralympic gold medallist from Team

The stamps for Team GB's gold medallists have been such an emblematic part of our celebrations during

GB gold medal winners stamp collection makes it a win to remember


We want to be Britain's best women's team, declares Team GB hockey coach

  • Hockey

By David Gold at Team GB House in LondonAugust 15 - After claiming a memorable bronze medal, Britain's

women's hockey coach Danny Kerry has set his sights on turning his squad into the "leading women's team

Coach Danny Kerry is full of optimism for the future of Team GB women's hockeyKerry said he would continue

to aim high with the team, who came close to winning the Champions Trophy for the first time in January

I think women's hockey can be and should be the premier team sport in the country."

They have certainly made a good step in that direction, as of all the main team sports in the Olympics

for GB's London 2012 women's hockey teamAugust 2012: No bad blood between us and Argentina, says GB


UK Sport looks ahead to success at Rio 2016 after superb home Olympics

  • Rio 2016

By David Gold at UK Sport headquarters in LondonAugust 14 - UK Sport chair Baroness Sue Campbell has hailed Britain's superb performance at London 2012 but said that they now faced the challenge of transferring a "unique" moment for sport in the country into "a future vision", as they aim to improve on their medal haul for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

in the 5,000 metres on the final weekend.Taking the bigger picture, the other major achievements for Team

GB were the 29 gold medals won overall, which UK Sport's special advisor for performance, Peter Keen

We can say this is the most successful British Olympic team ever."

Katherine Grainger (left) and women's double sculls partner Anna Watkins played a big part in helping Team

GB exceed medal expectations at London 2012In beating Russia to third spot, Britain exceeded expectations


British cycling stars back "inspirational" Go-Ride Games for youngsters

  • Cycling

By Stuart NewmanAugust 14 - Team GB stars Lizzie Armitstead and Ed Clancy are supporting British Cycling's

in London and British Cycling launched a programme to find young talent," said Armitstead, who won Team

of London 2012 when she claimed silver in the road race.Lizzie Armitstead is hoping the success of Team

Similarly, Clancy, a member of the gold medal winning pursuit team at London 2012, is keen to see as


Team GB and ParalympicsGB set for London open-top bus victory parade on September 10

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 14 - Britain's top stars from the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics are set to appear in an open-top bus victory parade through the capital on September 10 with millions of flag-waving supporters expected to line the streets to cheer on the likes of Sir Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis.

Palace.The parade will be held on a Monday, the day after the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games, and Team

GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt has already called for children to be let off school to attend."

GB ambassadors, to take part after they have been a regular feature across all venues supporting Britain's

London will do our amazing 2012 Olympic team proud, with a celebration every bit as inspiring as the

No one expected Team GB to do quite as amazingly well as they have done."


Badminton England name Jakob Høi as new head doubles coach

  • Badminton

By David GoldAugust 14 - After a disappointing performance at London 2012 Badminton England are already planning ahead to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games following the announcement of Jakob Høi (pictured) as their head doubles coach.

We want him to bring that drive to the GB programme."

He is an outstanding coach and will be an excellent addition to the team we are building for the next

2012 Olympic badminton competitionHøi, who also enjoyed great success with Denmark's youth national team

coaches of Badminton England it has been confirmed to me that I will meet a great organisation, a great team


Jim Cowan: Olympic legacy or Wimbledon Effect?

  • Inside the Blogs

Team GB has finished an unprecedented third in the medals table, fantastic crowds have turned up to watch

announcements from Prime Minister David Cameron that elite funding will be maintained and that competitive team

fighting anti-social behaviour as well as in understanding the ethics of hard work, of being part of a team


Why not host the Olympics again? jokes London Mayor

  • London 2012

By David Gold at the London Media CentreAugust 13 - London has made an "unanswerable case" to stage the Olympics and Paralympics again in the next 20 years, the city's Mayor Boris Johnson joked as he lavished praise on the Games.

expectations and won 29 gold medals, 17 silver and 19 bronze.Sir Chris Hoy won gold in the cycling team

, six of which are gold"The crowning achievement of the whole effort, a truly astonishing effort by Team

GB," Johnson said."


Moynihan to step down as BOA chairman

  • ANOC News

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 13 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan has today announced he will be stepping down from the position in November after seven years in the role.

will leave the role just a day after the conclusion of the London 2012 Olympics where he helped steer Team

GB to a record medal haul of 65 medals, 29 of them gold."

Nick Clegg, vice-chairman of the British Olympic Association Albert Woods and Princess Anne to watch Team

).Colin Moynihan speaks at a Team GB London 2012 press conferenceHowever, his chairmanship ends on a

The role I have played in the success of Team GB and in witnessing the creation of sporting history will


Moynihan determined to better London medal haul of Britain's "greatest team ever" at Rio 2016

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun at Team GB House in LondonAugust 13 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan

says he is already looking for Team GB to better its superb performance at London 2012 at the next summer

top-placed United States and runners-up China and, somewhat surprisingly, ahead of fourth-placed Russia.Team GB

But looking at these Games, the team has excelled."

GB athletes to twice strike gold at London 2012"It's been a team that has worked together, it's been

Andy Hunt, the BOA chief executive and Team GB Chef de Mission, echoed Moynihan's praise for the British

GB, says MoynihanJuly 2012: Team GB set target of 48 medals and fourth place at London 2012