By Mike RowbottomMay 13 - Russia's Aleksander Lesun ended his silver streak at the World Modern Pentathlon Championships by striking gold in Rome ahead of compatriot Andrey Moiseev, the Olympic double gold medallist and defending champion.

Jung, who was in the Korean men's relay team which made history last Tuesday (May 8) as they won the

pushed all the way as he recorded 1min 56.39sec.Cooke finished 33rd overall with 5,312 points with team

Woodbridge finishing higher in 10th with 5,852.Jan Bartu, performance director of the Pentathlon GB

event with Samantha Murray taking bronze.Murray, Spence and Heather Fell also collected gold in the team

event after Katy Burke, Kate French and Katy Livingston earlier won bronze in the team relay.Contact

Britain's world 1500 metres silver medallist, has been named as ambassador for the official licensed Team

GB sun care products in partnership with manufacturers Garnier Ambre Solaire.

which coincided with Sun Awareness Week, means England (pictured above) will become the face of the Team

GB sun care products which are on sale.The two limited edition products, sporting the patriotic Team

GB packaging, have advanced UVA and UVB filters."

As my training really intensifies, the Team GB Clear Protect +SPF 30 and Team GB Moisturising SPF30 will

GB Ambre Solaire sun lotion

By David GoldMay 12 - Jean-Christophe Rolland, France's 2000 Olympic gold medal winning rower, is predicting glory for the host nation on the lake at Eton Dorney this summer, but has played down French hopes at the Games.

You cannot really predict but I can say that for sure the British team is absolutely amazing in terms

For sure the British team is really strong, the Australian, New Zealand are always good teams as well

team's hopes, Rolland was dismissive and said: "I do not like this question – last year the French team

three boats are qualified so far which is really poor compared to the 13 boats qualified by the British team

I must say that if the French team can get two medals [that] would be fine."

By David GoldMay 12 - Ronaldinho seems set to miss out on London 2012 after failing to make Brazil coach Mano Menezes' squad for a series of four friendlies in the coming weeks.

aiming to win their first ever Olympic gold medal in football, and Menezes's side will also take on Team

GB in their first game for over 40 years in a friendly just before the start of the tournament.The South

football hoodooApril 2012: Brazil and US the bookies favourites for football gold medalsApril 2012: Team

GB footballers face tough London 2012 test following group drawMarch 2012: Brazilian Football Confederation

By David GoldMay 11 - The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has named six debutants in their fencing squad competing at this summer's Paralympic Games in London.

really progressed in this Paralympic cycle and it is great that ParalympicsGB will have a much larger team

fencers competing in the individual events, there will be representation in both the male and female Team

By Mike RowbottomMay 10 - Ukraine's reigning world modern pentathlon champion and Olympic bronze medallist Victoria Tereshuk (pictured left) will miss out on this year's final after failing to progress today at the Championships in Rome, finishing 16th in semi-final C.

Prentice is the only GB woman pentathlete to have achieved that standard to date, but is not guaranteed

a place on the GB Olympic team.With 77 women contesting the women's individual competitions, today's

after it failed, she came home in ninth.Prentice started just one place and seven seconds behind her team

She climbed two places in the run/shoot to end the day in fifth.Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance

place on the team.The scores achieved by Fell, Murray and Spence on Saturday will count towards the team

is set to participate in her sixth consecutive Olympic Games after she was today named as one of six Team

GB archers for London 2012 in an announcement by the British Olympic Association (BOA).

Team GB will be represented by Simon Terry (pictured bottom, second left), the 38-year-old who won a

We are delighted to welcome a full complement of six archers to Team GB to compete in the London 2012

Olympic Games in what will be a very memorable setting at Lord's," said Team GB Chef de Mission Andy

The experience she can share with her teammates throughout Team GB is invaluable."

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

the 49er class, and Alison Young, in the Laser Radial event, are the three final nominations for the Team

GB sailing team.

1900 in Paris.The addition of the sailors brings the total number of athletes officially selected to Team

GB for London 2012 to 79 across six disciplines: athletics – marathon, boxing, canoe slalom, sailing

, swimming and synchronised swimming.Sailing team leader Stephen Park said: "Stevie and Ben are obviously

Rhodes said: "We're massively psyched – it's a privilege to be selected for Team GB and for us it's a

GB selections for London 2012

works like this: every Monday morning a large cardbox box is delivered to all the scrappers in the GB

below) is brilliant – I haven't seen better facilities anywhere in the world and the back-up from our team

Now, each week from Monday to Thursday she gets up at 7am to go running with her team-mates up those

All the Team GB boxers – male and female – train together, and while boxing is an individual sport we

have a real strong team bond."

By David OwenMay 7 - The live television audience for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony on July 27 will be numbered in hundreds of millions not billions, according to a leading expert.

proportion of these people watched the 2008 Opening Ceremony (pictured below, swimmer Mark Foster leading Team

GB during the Parade of Nations)."

By Mike RowbottomMay 6 - The flagship four due to represent Britain at London 2012 won its first international outing today as Peter Reed, Tom James and Andy Triggs Hodge, Olympic gold medallists four years ago, combined with world champion Alex Gregory to supply one of four British golds on the final day of the rowing World Cup in Belgrade.

It's been a very good day", said GB Rowing Team Performance Director David Tanner.

second of the German pair of Anton Braun and Felix Drahotta.Tanner added: "Whilst proud of the whole team

Searle closes on Olympic returnMarch 2012: Reed, Triggs Hodge and Grainger deliver once again at GB

By Mike RowbottomMay 6 - Great Britain's women beat world champions Argentina 2-0 for the second time in two days today to win the Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament at the Riverbank Arena – but at a huge cost.

The GB team has yet to confirm the severity of her injury.There is an added complication: the British

into Olympic hockey test finalMay 2012: Riverbank Arena pitch will be perfect for the Games, says GB

By Tom DegunMay 6 - Britain's wheelchair racing star Hannah Cockroft, the double world champion and multiple world record holder in the T34 category, admits that the Paralympic athletics test event next Tuesday (May 8) will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for her and the perfect chance to prepare for London 2012.

my coach Peter Eriksson [the UK Athletics Paralympic head coach] and our new wheelchair coach on the team

medal table at IWAS World Junior Championships in DubaiMarch 2011: Cockroft heads selection for GB

By David GoldMay 6 - Scotland and Glasgow Celtic winger James Forrest would not play for Team GB at the

long-list of 80 players from which coach Stuart Pearce will choose his Olympic squad – the first time Team

GB will compete since a failed qualifying campaign for the 1972 Games.Forrest (pictured top, on right

football tournament is for under-23 players although three overage exceptions are allowed per squad.Team GB

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Park in LondonMay 5 - British Airways, the official airline of London 2012, has unveiled plans for Park Live which will take place here during the Olympics and Paralympics and allow thousands of spectators to cheer on live sporting action, hear from medal winning athletes and enjoy a picnic on the new riverside lawns.

Park Live Presented by British Airways will be the place for fans to go, cheer on Team GB and ParalympicsGB