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GB Canoeing receives additional host nation place for London 2012

  • Canoeing

By Tom DegunJune 16 - Just over 24 hours after nine athletes were selected for Team GB to compete in

Further to yesterday's British Olympic Association (BOA) selection of nine canoe sprint athletes to Team

GB, GB Canoeing is pleased to confirm that it has been awarded a women's host nation place, in line

The GB Canoeing International Panel will meet on Monday 25 June 2012, when they will determine who will

It is great to be part of a big team this time round and I can't wait to be back here at Eton Dorney

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesJune 2012: Brabants to join GB's nine-strong flat-water canoe sprint team


Queen rewards Tessa Jowell by making her a Dame in Birthday Honours list

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackayJune 16 - Tessa Jowell, without whom London's bid for the 2012 Olympcis and Paralympics would not have happened, has been made a Dame in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, it was announced today. 

with having helped turn around Britain's Olympic fortunes, culminating in Beijing four years ago when Team

GB finished fourth overall in the medals table with a total of 19 gold medals.Prior to joining UK Sport


Nightmare for Team GB's Dan Sliwinski as injury ends Olympic swimming dream

  • Aquatics

By Mike RowbottomJune 16 - Dan Sliwinski, selected to swim for Britain in the men's 100 metre breaststroke at the London 2012 Games, has been forced to withdraw because of an injury to a shoulder tendon.

A replacement swimmer will be selected to Team GB for the 100m breaststroke event following the second

Championships.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesMarch 2012: Team

GB names 38 swimmers for London 2012 


"Italian Job" drives into London 2012

  • Sponsor News

By Tom DegunJune 16 - Car manufacturer Mini has released a short London 2012 themed film to pay homage to the 1969 classic film The Italian Job that starred Michael Caine as the likable mobster Charlie Croker.

Called The Britalian Job, the new film has been created to celebrate Mini's partnership with Team GB

immersed in their roles and with several Olympic gold medals between us we were obviously the right team

Everybody involved with this film wishes Team GB and ParalympicsGB the best of luck as the Games approach


Ex-Ukrainian Butkevych earns only British wrestling place at London 2012

  • Wrestling

By Mike RowbottomJune 15 - Olga Butkevych (pictured), an Ukrainain-born athlete who was granted a British passport in May, has been selected as Britain's only wrestler at the London 2012 Olympics.

a ruling by the Olympic Qualification Standards (QQS) panel, which included Sir Clive Woodward and Team

GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt, that it had failed to achieve agreed performance targets.The OQS Panel

(pictured below left) was among a group of Eastern European athletes brought over to train with the GB

I would like to take this opportunity to thank performance director Shaun Morley, and the coaching team


Team GB face Olympic champions France in London 2012 opener

  • Handball

By Tom DegunJune 15 - Team GB's men's handball side have been given one of the toughest possible starts

pictured below) play Croatia in a repeat of the recent European Championship match which Serbia won.The Team

GB women's side will be in action first on day one of the Olympic handball competition (July 28), where



Britain battered by Canada in wheelchair basketball tournament

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

their preparations for the London 2012 Paralympics as they were defeated twice by Canada in a three-team

saw 20 of those points coming in the first half alone.Spain then went on to beat Great Britain's B team

-39.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesJune 2012: Team

GB to prepare for London 2012 basketball by taking on rivals at Worcester


Brabants to join GB's nine-strong flat-water canoe sprint team at London 2012

  • Canoeing

the chance to defend his title after he was today named as one of nine athletes that will represent Team

GB in the flat-water canoe sprint this summer here at the London 2012 venue.

Four years ago representing Team GB was one of those dreams along with being a rock star and dating a

The Canoe Sprint team has really progressed since Tim Brabants won the first ever medal for Team GB by

taking bronze in Sydney back in 2000," said Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt, who made the

GB at London 2012 to 242 across twenty sport disciplines."

process over the last two months," added GB Canoeing performance director John Anderson."


Alan Hubbard: It seems British Shooting may have shot themselves in the foot over the Team GB selections

  • Inside the Blogs

Cook has a copy of a scorecard signed by a GB coach Hugh Hunter which shows he had a practice score of

Minister, Hugh Robertson, a former Army major, will, take more than a passing interest.Phil Scanlan, Team

GB Shooting team leader responds: "I totally refute any suggestion of prejudice.

Because these are a home Games, in discussion with the BOA we decided on a specific qualification for the GB

team, never mind about the International Federation mark."


New Pictogram Pins

  • Collecting and Heritage News

June 14 - So far, we have seen metallic pictogram pins and pewter pictogram pins, now it's the turn of gold pictogram pins.

combine the pictogram with the appropriate logo and use a shiny and dull gold finish seen on the recent Team

GB and Paralympics GB pins.The pins are limited to 10,000 pieces and are numbered 1772 - 1780. 


British athletes will be dancing to the same tune at London 2012

  • Sponsor News

By Tom Degun at Forman's Fish Island in LondonJune 14 - Technogym, the Official Fitness Equipment Supplier of London 2012, has joined forces with Universal Music, the Official Music Licensee of the Games, to create The Workout Mix in support of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes who will be competing this summer.

The three-disc album includes over 20 tracks picked by Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes including marathon


Team GB leaders conclude final London 2012 Paralympic preparations

  • London 2012 Paralympics

By Tom DegunJune 13 - ParalympicsGB concluded its final team-leader workshop at the Olympic Park in Stratford

de Mission of Performance Penny Briscoe and Deputy Chef de Mission of Operations Ann Hogbin with 60 team

Many of those in attendance praised the event staged by ParalympicsGB, including Gareth Sheppard, team

The operational updates have provided critical information to help team leaders plan effectively for

Peter Eriksson, team leader for athletics, backed up Sheppard's words."

We have done a series of team-leader workshops which have all been very informative and helpful," he


Millar becomes first former drugs cheat picked by Team GB since scrapping of BOA bylaw

  • Cycling

By Duncan MackayJune 13 - David Millar, who served a two-year suspension from 2004 to 2006 after admitting to taking banned blood booster Erythropoietin (EPO), has been named in the Great Britain cycling squad for London 2012, it was announced today.

He has been included alongside a strong team that also includes Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton, Bradley

World Championships win last September and is almost certain to fill one of the spots when the final team

GB."

We have selected what I believe to be an excellent team going into an Olympic Games and we have a good

Overall, though, the GB Cycling Team has had a strong season across all the disciplines and we are ready