By Mike RowbottomMay 1 - A British bobsleigh athlete has tested positive for a banned substance, the sport's national governing body has confirmed.

including the right to a full hearing and testing of their B sample," Anderson said in a statement to the GB

one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at senior Olympic Games – but  the British bobsleigh team

By David GoldApril 30 - British handball's men's coach Dragan Djukic (pictured) is to leave after this summer's Olympic Games to take charge of Israel.

Djukic was introduced as the new coach of the Israeli national team yesterday, and in a statement given

British Handball can confirm that the head coach of their men's team, Dragan Djukic, will move on to

become coach of the Israeli national team on September 1," the statement read."

Djukic is still very much committed to guiding the GB men's team through the London Olympics and helping

The most important thing is that the Israeli handball team changes and wants to change for the future

By David GoldApril 30 - Britain's former 110 metres hurdler and 1998 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Tony Jarrett (pictured) has told insidethegames he thinks it is right that Dwain Chambers will get the chance to compete at London 2012 this summer.

to return to the Games now.Chambers can now compete in the 100m and also may join the 4x100m relay team

If Chambers makes [it] we have a strong team, a very strong team," Jarrett (pictured top) said.The CAS

By Tom Degun at the BOA Headquarters in LondonApril 30 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan has claimed that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has secured a "hollow victory" after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned his organisation's lifetime Olympic ban on drug cheats.

GB."

GB."

If they become members of Team GB they will be treated just as every other athlete in the delegation.

There will be no two-tier team."

British Cycling, charged with nominating Millar to Team GB, followed suit."

By David GoldApril 30 - Alistair Patrick-Heselton (pictured left) is dreaming of winning gold at this summer's London 2012 Paralympic seven-a-side cerebral palsy football tournament, with the help of Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand (pictured right).

life threatening coma.He had previously enjoyed a promising stint in the Queen's Park Rangers youth team

Association about the prospect of playing disability football.He scored on his debut for the cerebral palsy team

in June 2011, and will now head to London this summer with the seven-a-side team, who hope to win gold.His

 has been picked to play alongside Martin Sinclair, brother of Swansea forward Scott, for Team

GB at the Paralympics this summer."

By Mike RowbottomApril 30 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) ruling against the British Olympic Association's (BOA) policy of lifetime bans for serious doping offenders has polarised opinion within British sporting circles.

(pictured top and below), who served a two-year doping ban, will now be part of the British Olympic team

Jackson added: "Fans are used to him being in the team so already he has been accepted and it has no

Chambers' friend and Team GB team-mate, Christian Malcolm, said: "He has served his time now."

a considerable personal price for Chambers' cheating.The 32-year-old and Chambers made up half the GB

Drugs cheats have had their lifetime bans overturned and can represent GB at the Olympics, how heart-warming

By Tom DegunApril 29 - London 2012 have announced 1.4 million tickets for the Olympic football competition will go back on sale tomorrow morning at 11am on a first come, first served basis with Ticketmaster claiming they are confident there will be no issues or technical problems for people trying to purchase them via the official website.

London.Only five games for the Olympic football competition have sold out so far, the first of which is Team

GB women's team (some of the squad pictured below) kicking off the tournament and the Olympic Games

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

;Ronaldo urges Team GB to pick Beckham for Olympic football squadApril 2012: Bring on Brazil, declares

buoyant British women's football coach PowellApril 2012: Team GB footballers face tough London 2012

So the UK Athletics selection panel has now decided that, as far as the British men's marathon team at

Just as a reminder, that aim was to "Persuade Team GB to select Lee Merrien so we can watch a GB runner

The Olympics is not just about winning we want to see GB athletes at London 2012.

But the more basic point was that there was a place unfilled in the men's marathon team, and there was

running a personal best of 2 hours 13min 41sec, learned today that he will after all be offered the third Team

GB spot at London 2012.

already selected, having run 2:10:55 on his debut in Berlin last October, the only addition to the men's team

To read Mike Rowbottom: Team GB's latest Olympic marathon selection is a case of the more the Merrien

of this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2012: Hallissey and Webb earn Team

GB London 2012 marathon call-upApril 2012: Kenyans dominate Virgin London Marathon as Hallissey

lays claim to last GB Olympic placeDecember 2011: Radcliffe's fifth Olympics confirmed as Yamauchi

April 27 - This week sees the release of a large number of pins covering a few different subjects.

The torch pin is available in both enamel and print versions.HeartsParalympics GB issue two team pins

By David GoldApril 27 - Following this week's draw for the London 2012 Olympic Games football tournament, Brazil and the United States (pictured left) are favourites with the bookmakers for the men's and women's gold medals.

favourites at 5-1 to lift the title on the first occasion they will have played as a united football team

William Hill are also offering bets on who will make the historic Team GB squad, with LA Galaxy's David

bookies.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2012: Team

GB footballers face tough London 2012 test following group draws

By David GoldApril 26 - Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt has told insidethegames that he has

whatsoever" about the prospect of men's football coach Stuart Pearce also taking charge of the England team

Regarding the selection of the Team GB squad for London 2012, Hunt insisted that there was no pressure

We want the best players competing for Team GB to get the best possible outcome so this nation can be

To assist with the preparations, Team GB have a men's match lined up against Brazil (pictured above)

GB to pick Beckham for Olympic football squadApril 2012: Team GB footballers face tough London

GB shortlist

By David Gold April 26 - Great Britain's Olympic beach volleyball squad have agreed a partnership with Aetna, making the health benefits company the squad's first major commercial sponsor.

Team GB are currently busy preparing for this summer's tournament, which will take place at Horse Guards

Healy, general manager of Europe for Aetna International, said: "We're proud to offer our support to Team

GB as they seek to use London 2012 as a launch pad to grow interest and participation in beach volleyball

Morph Bowes (pictured below), the GB head coach, also welcomed the news as the squads take part in the

Olympic football draw at Wembley, has lent his support to David Beckham being selected as a member of the Team

GB squad.

Beckham is a real calm guy and a team player, and, despite his status and fame, he is actually very humble

It's upto the manager to pick the best team available, but if I was the manager I definitely would [pick

GB shortlistApril 2012: Exclusive - Beckham should be on Team GB football team, says hurdle champion

JacksonJanuary 2012: I'd love to captain Team GB at London 2012, says BeckhamJanuary 2012: 

;Beckham and Giggs could reunite for Team GB at London 2012December 2011: Beckham makes shortlist

By Andrew WarshawApril 25 - Team GB head coach Stuart Pearce insists he is perfectly capable of combining

GB at the Olympics."

Pearce (pictured above, left with Team GB women's coach Hope Powell) refuses to be pressurised into identifying

GB footballers face tough London 2012 test following group drawsApril 2012: No Olympics for Euro

GB shortlistApril 2012: Exclusive - Beckham should be on Team GB football team, says hurdle champion

JacksonJanuary 2012: I'd love to captain Team GB at London 2012, says Beckham