By Tom DegunJune 13 - Almost half of the British public have changed their summer holiday plans to ensure they are at home to watch the Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to a new study from British Airways.

date to watch the Games while a similar number of 18-24 year olds even stated they would pray for the Team

GB and ParalympicsGB athletes.There has also been a surge in British pride in recent weeks (pictured

ex-pat Britons who live abroad to fly back for the Games.A further 50 flights have been offered to Team

GB and ParalympicsGB athletes to bring their friends and family home during the Games, with the promotion

We are immensely proud to support Team GB and ParalympicsGB, and will be doing everything we can to rally

By Mike Rowbottom at the Institute of Education in LondonJune 12 - Andy Hunt, the Team GB Chef de Mission

and chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), said today that the criteria for team

number of contentious selection questions in recent weeks, including in fencing, where the three final team

Cook is considering whether to take legal action following his controversial omission from the British team

, however, that the BOA was totally satisfied that selection policy had been followed faithfully by GB

interested parties in supporting athletes fighting to the last moment to be named as an individual on the team

this summer, said today that the British squad selected for this summer's Games was "the most talented team

Speaking at the announcement here of the three final selections for Team GB – Anna Bentley and Sophie

I am delighted to welcome the final three fencers to Team GB, which completes our 10-strong squad for

the London 2012 Olympics, which is seven more than we had in Beijing," Team GB Chef de Mission Andy

GB."

Troiano said: "I feel extremely proud to have been selected as part of the Team GB fencing team for the

been selected by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the 11th and final athlete to represent Team

GB in shooting at London 2012.

I am really delighted to be selected to compete for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics," said Kerwood

It will be extra special to compete at home, with the support of Team GB fans behind us."

Kerwood joins 10 other shooters in the Team GB squad.They are Elena Allen, Richard Brickell (pictured

GB shooting team leader Phil Scanlan."

The addition of Kerwood brings the total number of athletes officially selected for Team GB for London

after the trio, along with the male pairing of Anthony Ogogo and Josh Taylor, were officially named in Team

GB today.

GB in December last year after qualifying for the Olympics by virtue of their placement at the 2011

Since I took over as Performance Director in November 2009, the GB Boxing squad has performed consistently

well at major Championships," said Team GB boxing team leader Rob McCracken."

Together, the ten boxers now selected to Team GB include one world champion, three European gold medallists

London 2012 berthMay 2012: British women boxers make history by securing London 2012 spotsMay 2012: GB

MackayJune 11 - The Queen's granddaugther Zara Phillips has been selected to represent Britain's eventing team

Princess Royal, competed at the 1976 Montreal Games, while her father Captain Mark Phillips was a team

in Seoul 16 years later.The 31-year-old Phillips is married to Mike Tindall, a member of the England team

Toytown.Phillips been chosen alongside William Fox-Pitt, Mary King, Piggy French and Tina Cook.The team

By Mike RowbottomJune 11 - Britain's Kate French took silver at the Modern Pentathlon European Junior Championships in Hungary when she finished 25 seconds behind the host nation's Sarolta Kovacs, the reigning world junior champion.

French (pictured top) also joined forces with Kerry Prise and Rebecca Wain to collect bronze in the team

event at the competition in Székesfehérvár.Russia won the team competition, with Italy second.The 21

-year-old French, who trains at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath,

Championships.The latest British successes came just over 24 hours after the British modern pentathlon team

By Mike RowbottomJune 11 - Eighteen-year-old Zoe Smith is the youngest member of a five-strong Team GB

I'm elated to have been selected for the team," said Smith."

GB at the Games."

first-ever Moderen Olympics at Athens in 1896 Launceston Elliot won the now discontinued one hand lift.Team GB

Team GB Weightlifting head coach Tamas Feher commented: "I am convinced we will participate at London

with our strongest and best prepared team."

By Duncan MackayJune 11 - Britain's goalball teams will make their Paralympic debuts at London 2012 when both the men and women face the world champions and the Beijing 2008 silver medallists Lithuania in their opening matches of the tournament at the Copper Box on the Olympic Park on August 30, it was announced today.

Paralympic champions China will also open their campaign on August 30 when they face Iran, the only team

By Mike RowbottomJune 11 - Monique Gladding will compete at her first Olympics just 18 months after she almost died following a freak accident at a diving competition in Russia.

I am really over the moon to be part of Team GB."

It has taken a lot but I am now fully back, ready and excited to put on my Team GB Tracksuit."

Daley (pictured above), who was officially named today along with 11 others in the Team GB diving team

I am really excited to be part of Team GB for the London 2012 Olympics," Daley said."

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the event was seeing Craig Hunter (pictured below), who was serving as Chef de Mission to the English team

GB delegation leadership team headed by British Olympic Association (BOA) chief executive Andy Hunt

despite staying on to act as Chef de Mission for Team GB at the European Youth Olympic Festival last

We already have a great group of athletes in the ParalympicsGB team.

That said, the team we have is enormously talented.

the team."

By Duncan MackayJune 10 - The Netherlands showed why they are world's top-ranked female hockey team when

2012: Australian comeback sets up Investec London Cup final with NetherlandsJune 2012: No chance for GB

hockey team to claim Investec Cup after defeat to GermanyJune 2012: Australia and Germany hockey victories

semi-finalsJune 2012: Britain stunned by South Africa in Investec Cup openerJune 2012: Kerry juggles injury-hit GB

By Mike RowbottomJune 10 - Lutalo Muhammad, controversially chosen for the British taekwondo team at

BOA) last week even though they criticised the process and the "lack of transparency" involved,  told GB

To be honest it hasn't been too hard because the team at the Academy has been right behind me."

2012: Alan Hubbard - What we have now is unseemly bickering over selection processes that bedevils Team

GB at the worst possible time

I chose a BP Team GB pin, and we exchanged and shook hands with true pin trading etiquette.

the fact I had already made this trade 10 minutes earlier, and had picked out the exact the same BP Team

GB pin.

By Duncan MackayJune 9 - Australia and Netherlands will meet in the final of the Investec London Cup tomorrow after they won the heir semi-finals at the University of Westminster Sport Grounds in Chiswick today.

 But the world's top-ranked team triumphed in the penalty shoot-out 4-2.Kelly Jonker, who had scored

ten minutes on the clock.But with three minutes of the first half remaining Pietee Coetzee gave her team

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