By Andrew WarshawJuly 28 - On a somewhat disappointing opening day of sport for the host nation, Team

GB's women's football team – playing in their first ever Olympics – bucked the trend by doing their

GB scorers."

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By Mike Rowbottom in The Mall in LondonJuly 28 - Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson said here today after watching Britain's world champion cyclist Mark Cavendish (pictured, on right) fail to earn a medal in the Olympic men's road race that there was a danger of home medal predictions becoming unrealistically inflated.

, en route for the medal ceremony, commented: "It's obviously disappointing, but we have a talented team

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By Mike Rowbottom at The Mall in LondonJuly 28 - The was no "icing on the cake" here for Britain's all-conquering Tour de France cyclists – but the Games themselves were sweetly enhanced by a road race which initial reports indicated had drawn more than a million spectators out into the balmy, sunshine of Surrey and central London.

last of nine climbs up the short but steep incline of Box Hill, and with only five riders, the British team

of the peloton left them to do the bulk of the work.For what Cavendish had described as "the dream team

The team were incredible."They left everything out on the road."I am so proud of them."

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By Andrew Warshaw at WimbledonJuly 28 - She may only be the British number four and unlikely to win a tennis medal but Elena Baltacha has a special reason for treasuring every moment of London 2012.

an Olympian, it just means so much to me," Baltacha, who will play both singles and doubles, told a Team

GB press conference here."

By Andrew Warshaw at the Olympic Stadium in LondonJuly 28 - For weeks, the rumour mill had been in full swing as the betting patterns changed, sometimes almost by the hour.

 The decision to leave the former England football captain out of the Team GB squad left organisers

Olympians to nominate a teenager to light the Olympic cauldronOr would Games boss Sebastian Coe and his team

his or her own special contribution to British sporting life.All we had been promised officially by Team

GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt was that the decision had been unanimous and that it would be a "wow" moment.And

By David Gold at the London Media CentreJuly 27 - Anthony Joshua has "a great chance" of glory at London 2012, according to Seoul 1988 Olympic gold medallist Lennox Lewis.

Anthony Ogogo, Anthony Joshua, Josh Taylor, Fred Evans, Luke Campbell, Tom Stalker and Andrew Selby of Team

GB boxingTwenty-two year old Joshua's star is on the rise after a superb performance at the World Amateur

again expected to win the most, ahead of the United States, but there is now a genuine belief that Team

GB could challenge Russia and Germany for third place.My first Olympics was Tokyo, in 1964, a Games

match my own most bizarre Games experience.In 1980, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had ordered GB

By Andrew WarshawJuly 27 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan has played down suggestions by FIFA President Sepp Blatter that Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale could be banned for pulling out of the Olympics if there was an official complaint that he did so under false pretences.

Bale (pictured above) withdrew from the Olympic squad with a back injury just before Team GB coach Stuart

I think Sepp Blatter needs to get closer to Team GB."

GB."

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By David Gold at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 26 - Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer says he hopes Stanislas Wawrinka, with whom he won the Olympic doubles gold four years' ago, beats British number one Andy Murray in their first round London 2012 clash at Wimbledon.

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By Andrew Warshaw at Old Trafford in ManchesterJuly 26 - On the eve of the London 2012 Opening Ceremony and more than half-a-century after their last appearance at the Olympic football tournament, Britain's men came within nine agonising minutes of pulling off an historic victory tonight but ultimately ran out of steam as party-poopers Senegal ruined Ryan Giggs' special night.

GB captain and, at 38, the oldest outfield player ever to appear in the men's event.Now, instead, Team

GB will almost certainly have to beat the United Arab Emirates on Sunday (July 29) to stand a realistic

Before Team GB took the field, the first part of the evening's double header in Group A saw hotly favoured

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organisers of the Olympic football tournament had more red faces today when the official programme for Team

GB listed Welsh midfielder Joe Allen as being English.

Given the constant debate over the rights and wrongs of an all-British team, the mistake (pictured top

) could hardly have been more embarrassing.Allen, 22, is one of five Welshmen in the Team GB squad despite

the opposition of the Welsh Football Association which has always feared a combined team could jeopardise

quick to issue an apology, saying "new programmes are now being printed with the correction in time for Team

the South Korean flag was mistakenly used alongside the names of the North Korean women's football team

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre in the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 26 - British running legend Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has become the overwhelming favourite to light the Olympic Flame at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony tomorrow night after a series of huge bets were placed on him to receive the prestigious honour.

Olympics, the last time the capital hosted the Games, where he served as a teenage assistant to the Team

GB leader.Minutes prior to the London 1948 Opening Ceremony at Wembley Stadium, it was discovered that

Britain was the only team without a flag to march behind.Bannister was duly despatched to commandeer

When Ryan Giggs leads the Great Britain team out against Senegal at Old Trafford later today, it will

Munich.Charles Hughes, a coach at the Football Association (FA) and the manager of the England amateur team

The choice of ground would lead to a bigger attendance and a better display by the British team," said

GB football team warm up before training"Because most of us were from the Isthmian league, and

That proved to be the very last British football team until 2012.

By David GoldJuly 25 - Reigning Olympic champions, the United States, were given an almighty scare by France in their opening match of defending their women's football title, but eventually came through to register a 4-2 win at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

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By Andrew Warshaw July 26 - FIFA President Sepp Blatter says Gareth Bale could be banned from playing any further friendly matches for his club, Tottenham Hotspur, for the duration of the Olympic Games.

any complaint would be made against Bale since the Welsh Football Association is not affected.Team GB

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