By Mike RowbottomMay 4 - Great Britain's newly constituted men's four (pictured top), made up of Olympic champions Pete Reed, Andy Triggs Hodge, Tom James and world champion Alex Gregory, raced together for the first time today at the World Cup in Belgrade, easing to victory in its heat.

hopefuls Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, also moved comfortably through.Britain has sent a 57-strong team

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

By Mike Rowbottom at the London 2012 Olympic Park View TubeMay 4 - Team GB will win 27 gold medals at

Olympic and Paralympic Games: the impact of universities", also points out that almost two-thirds of Team

GB medallists of the last 20 years are university-educated, and that more than 90 per cent of Britain's

the actual total gained, but was also the closest prediction offered.The latest prediction over the Team

GB prospects at London 2012 takes into account the steady improvement that has taken place in British

Team GB will win medals in 15 sports and across 18 disciplines, which would be the widest range of success

By David GoldMay 4 - Sitting volleyball will not be played at this year's BT Paralympic World Cup as there is no suitable opponent for Britain.

We understand that this is an important period in both individual athletes and team preparations for

Instead of competing, the GB players will continue their own training and preparations for the Games

selection appeal turned down by British Rowing, which leaves Phelan Hill in position as cox to the GB

Phelan Hill is therefore confirmed in the role of cox to the GB Rowing Team men's eight."

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, has urged his national federation to support any players from his country who want to compete for Team

GB at the London 2012 Olympics.

GB, the latter as one of three overage players."

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over Olympic Team GB at Bale and RamseyNovember 2011: Ramsey highlights desire to play for Team

GB by posing in BOA shirt

By Tom DegunMay 3 - A British franchise will join the World Series of Boxing (WSB) as the format for the entire competition will be completely revised for the new season this autumn, it has been claimed by C K Wu (pictured left), President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA). 

two as Italian franchise Dolce & Gabbana Milano Thunder defeated Russia's Dynamo Moscow in the team

Italy and Dynamo Moscow will become Team Russia.But in a surprise announcement, Wu, who is also the

relationship with England but the plan is to have English, Welsh and Scottish boxers competing together in one GB

team for WSB," Wu said."

insidethegames understands that negotiations are far from complete on the subject and the prospect of a GB

By David Gold at the Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park in London May 3 - Britain's women have stormed into the final of the Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament after a convincing 3-0 win over China here today.

above) following penalty corners and a close range conversion from Susie Gilbert ensure Danny Kerry's team

Though he was pleased that his team played well, coach Kerry was disappointed that they were unable to

Sangryul was philosophical about the defeat, pointing to conditions in Britain taking time for her team

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesMay 2012: Riverbank Arena pitch will be perfect for the Games, says GB

By David GoldMay 3 - Great Britain Hockey and The Times have agreed a partnership which sees the newspaper become an official partner of the men's squad this summer.

The Times' logo will feature on the shirts of the British team during competitions during the build-up

nbsp;said the newspaper is "proud and delighted to be associated with the Great Britain men's hockey team

The last time Britain won an Olympic title in a team sport was 1988, when men's hockey struck gold in

By Mike RowbottomMay 2 - Britain's Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams has announced her immediate retirement from skeleton.

Williams was the only medallist for Team GB at the 2010 Games, breaking the track record twice to win

May 2 - A new series of pins has been announced today and they all feature the popular Union Flag theme. The first are a set of 3 flag/logo pins pairing the Union Flag with the Olympic Games logo in white and flag colours and also with the Paralympic Game slog in white.

 The final two pins announced today are the Team GB heart and star pins to compliment the Paralympics

version issued last week.Like the Paralympics GB versions, these two pins are limited to 2,012 pieces.All

campaign: Some 630,000 people will have hockey tickets for the games – and we want everyone supporting GB

establish a multi-sports club for children in the East End of London, thanks to the brilliant work our GB

men's team has done in becoming coaches, and 'big brothers', to an enthusiastic and determined group

..Find out more about the Hockey Nation programme and the forthcoming Investec London Cup featuring GB

Munday, who has also served with the Lawn Tennis Association, is a former team manager of Great Britain

makes me very proud of how far I have come - in such a short space of time.The experience of racing for Team

GB in a Track World Championships was like nothing else I have ever experienced in cycling.

track next month, I am really excited to see exactly how far I have come in one year since I joined the GB

Para-Cycling team in June 2011.

By Andrew WarshawMay 1 - Team GB head coach Stuart Pearce seems likely to be able to focus 100 per cent

on preparing a team for London 2012 as a result of Roy Hodgson's appointment as manager of the England

the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2012: Exclusive - Team

GB boss has no worries about football coach taking on both 2012 Euro and Olympic teamsApril 2012: 

;I'm ready for Euro 2012 and the Olympics, insists Stuart PearceApril 2012: Team GB footballers

By David GoldMay 1 - Britain's men's hockey squad for this week's VISA International Invitational Hockey Tournament, which runs from May 2 until 6, has been announced by coach Jason Lee.

begins on Wednesday (May 2), runs until Sunday (May 6).It is the first major competition for the British team

Like the women's team selected by Danny Kerry, the men's squad has just one goalkeeper – James Fair."

By David GoldMay 1 - Brazil "must break" its record of never having won an Olympic football gold medal, legendary forward Ronaldo has insisted.

Unfortunately the team fell asleep and managed to lose 4-3, and could not realise the dream of the gold

There is a lot of pressure [on Brazil] – it is the only title the Brazil team have not won so I think

Mine and Romário's generation won pretty much everything a Brazil team can win," he said."

There is still debate as to who will coach that team on home ground in Brazil, with Mano Menezes under

GB footballers face tough London 2012 test following group drawApril 2012: Brazil ace Ronaldo to help