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Drugs cheats Chambers and Myerscough in but no place for Meadows

  • Athletics

By Duncan Mackay at Team GB House in LondonJuly 3 - Dwain Chambers, who at times admitted he gave up

hope of competing at London 2012, was today named in Team GB, along with another former drugs cheat,

It is a real honour to be selected as part of Team GB today," said Chambers, who, at 34, will be making

GB.

I am very proud to have nominated such as strong team of athletes to Team GB," said Van Commenee.

Andy Hunt, Team GB's Chef de Mission, is backing the team to be successful."

GB this summer."


Superstar Marta to lead Brazil's women footballers at London 2012

  • Football

By David GoldJuly 3 - Brazil's women's football coach Jorge Barcellos has named the 18-strong squad which will compete at this summer's Olympic Games in London.

Team training is going well," said Barcellos."

The way this team have gelled you could say we have the medal in our hands."It depends on us."

later.Its final group game is against hosts Great Britain on July 31 at Wembley.Barcellos will hope his team

storiesApril 2012: Bring on Brazil, declares buoyant British women's football coach PowellApril 2012: Team

GB footballers face tough London 2012 test following group draws



Sinclair brothers make respective British London 2012 teams

  • Football News

Sinclair will be joined by his brother, Scott, after Stuart Pearce named the Swansea forward on his Team

GB football squad for the London 2012 Olympics.

squad at Wembley Stadium.Scott looks likely to be a key member of the first British men's football team

was surprisingly left out by Pearce.Martin (pictured above, left) got involved with the seven-a-side team

Holloway.He will be aiming for glory in the Paralympics weeks after Scott and the rest of the Olympic team

one point from a draw with the Republic of Ireland.Martin is not the only star on the seven-a-side team


There's not a manager around who picks on sentiment, insists Pearce

  • Football

By Andrew Warshaw at Wembley Stadium in LondonJuly 2 - Team GB coach Stuart Pearce suffered the anticipated

desperation to end his career by competing at London 2012 would be enough to earn him a place as one of Team

GB for London 2012July 2012: I'd have picked Beckham, says former manager ErikssonJune 2012: Bale's

London 2012 dreams in tatters as injury forces withdrawal from Team GB football squadJune 2012: Beckham's

omission shows there is no room for sentiment in Team GBJune 2012: Beckham left out of London 2012 by

Team GB


Skelton set for sixth Olympics as equestrian jumping quartet named in Team GB

  • Equestrian

the four jumping athletes of Scott Brash, Peter Charles, Ben Maher and veteran Nick Skelton will join Team

GB for the London 2012 equestrian competition at Greenwich Park along with their horses.

Charles, the 52-year-old from Hampshire, will be making his Team GB debut at London 2012 although he

GB," he said."

Also named is the Team GB travelling reserve Tina Fletcher, the 47-year-old from Oxfordshire who is riding

This announcement completes the selection of the Team GB equestrian team for the London 2012 Olympic

The selected jumping team athletes mirror the other Team GB equestrian teams, in that they are a mix


Giggs and Bellamy defy Welsh FA as they join Team GB for London 2012

  • Football

expected, defied the wishes of the Football Association of Wales (FAW) when they were confirmed by Team

GB men's football coach Stuart Pearce as part of his 18-man squad for the London 2012 Olympics here

GB member I have not looked at their individual nationality."

GB," said Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt (pictured in second picture, right)."

GB."

GB football squadJune 2012: Beckham's omission shows there is no room for sentiment in Team GBJune 2012

footballers will make Team GB London 2012 squad


I'd have picked Beckham, says former manager Eriksson

  • Football

manager Sven-Göran Eriksson is the latest figure to express surprise at David Beckham being omitted from Team

GB as one of the three over-age players at the London 2012 Olympics.

It's Stuart Pearce's job to pick a team that he thinks can win."

of athletes and celebrityJune 2012: Beckham's omission shows there is no room for sentiment in Team

GBJune 2012: Beckham left out of London 2012 by Team GBMay 2012: "No pressure" on Team GB

to pick Beckham, says CoeApril 2012: Ronaldo urges Team GB to pick Beckham for Olympic football


Men's Euro sprint relay blunder "must not happen again at home Games", says Van Commenee

  • Athletics

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic Stadium in HelsinkiJuly 1 - Britain's male sprint relay team crashed

out of their European Championship final here as, just a day after the women's sprint team had been

- went on to earn a surprise victory in a national record of 38.34sec ahead of the defending French team

here effectively confirmed he will be picked for the London Olympics when the selectors announce their team

friend.Van Commenee described the latest relay debacle – the fourth such reverse the British men's sprint team

day.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesJune 2012: GB

women's 4x100m relay team will miss out at London 2012 after being disqualifiedJune 2012: Grabarz and


New Retail Pins

  • Collecting and Heritage News

July 1 - London 2012 released some new retail pins last week across a number of themes.

1098 - 1103.The next set are new logo pins, this time in a pewter effect seen in some pictogram and Team

GB pins.


GB women's 4x100m relay team will miss out at London 2012 after being disqualified

  • Athletics

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic Stadium in HelsinkiJune 30 - Britain's women's 4x100 metres relay team

final after finishing second, only to find 15 minutes later that they were disqualified.The British team

But Jones used her Twitter page to criticise UK Athletics for not giving the team sufficient race opportunities

Stadium later this summer.Martina might have been in the same position as the British women's sprint team


Bale's London 2012 dreams in tatters as injury forces withdrawal from Team GB football squad

  • Football

By Andrew WarshawJune 30 - Team GB's chances of picking up a men's football medal at London 2012 have

GB squad, Bale's absence will be a further disappointment to those who have bought tickets for the football

GB shirt, which angered Welsh supporters."

GB at OlympicsNovember 2011: Wales fans aim anger over Olympic Team GB at Bale and RamseyOctober 2011

: Bale poses in Team GB shirt to fuel London 2012 speculationOctober 2011: I won't stand in way of Gareth

GB football team sparks anger


Mike Rowbottom: Beckham and Farah – everyday tales of athletes and celebrity

  • Inside the Blogs

So David Beckham is left out of Team GB for the Olympics.

over and transfer of the Olympic Torch, it was obvious how desperate he was to get the nod from the Team

GB coach, Stuart Pearce, who had travelled out to the United States a few weeks earlier to watch him

For the team it was a bad day.

I want to be picked on what I can bring to the team.


Lack of finance forces Cook to give up London 2012 taekwondo appeal

  • Taekwondo

By Duncan MackayJune 29 - Aaron Cook will definitely not compete at London 2012 after dropping legal proceedings against the British Olympic Association (BOA), because he claims he can no longer afford to fight against his exclusion.

The world number one had been controversially overlooked by GB Taekwondo for the -80 kilogram spot, who

In the best interests of Team GB, I have decided not to take up the offer to be first reserve for London

"I will sit down with my team though and consider my best way forward in the coming months."


Beckham's omission shows there is no room for sentiment in Team GB

  • Football

dismay and head-scratching as David Beckham, the country's most iconic footballer, being left out of Team

GB.

The BOA has not yet received from the FA the list of players who are being nominated for Team GB, so

GB squad," Beckham said."

GB June 2012: Former international Gallacher hopeful four Scottish footballers will make Team

GB London 2012 squadJune 2012: Bellamy to be one of Team GB's three over-age players for London

GB to pick Beckham, says Coe