said that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland's Football Associations should embrace being a part of Team

GB at the Olympic Games.

GB squad as they believe it threatens their status as independent football nations.FIFA, who run the

There's a team and this team should be composed by the four British associations."

GB, and a number of other players from the home nations have expressed hope that they could be part

GB oppositionJanuary 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: Celtic manager won't prevent

By Mike RowbottomMarch 5 - Britain's rhythmic gymnasts have won their appeal to take part in London 2012 after a decision by British Gymnastics not to select them has been overturned by an independent arbitrator, Sports Resolutions UK, which criticised the clarity of the qualification policy.

at the Olympic test event at the North Greenwich Arena in January, when observers were told that the team

competition.After narrowly missing that target of 45.233 marks by just 0.273 at the end of the second day, however, team

added: "The policy could easily have included language which clearly and unequivocally stated that the GB

The GB group, however, was in a different position."

best interests of its athletes and coaches," adding: "British Gymnastics' decision not to nominate the GB

RowbottomMarch 4 - Anne Adams-King has been appointed to the new post of regional manager of Pentathlon GB

Adams-King, a former Olympic swimmer, joins Pentathlon GB from the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA)

The post of regional manager is a new and very important one for Pentathlon GB."

We are looking to Anne to lead our regional team to establish a consistent and effective national network

Adams-King commented: "I am excited at the prospect of joining Pentathlon GB as regional manager."

challenges that lie ahead, I look forward to applying my wide range of experience to build a successful team

In 2008 Team GB and ParalympicsGB returned home from the Beijing 2008 Games with us on a gold nose aircraft

By Tom DegunMarch 3 - Tickets have gone on sale for the London 2012 football test event on April 23 at the City of Coventry Stadium (pictured) where a vital match will take place that will offer the final qualifying place in the men's Olympic football tournament.

ever men's Olympic football appearance.Their opponents at the test event will be the fourth-placed team

The men's Olympic football tournament will be played between July 25 and August 11 with Team GB set to

feature.The men's GB team will be managed by Stuart Pearce and is tipped to be led by former England

Beckham.Should they emerge victorious and claim Olympic football gold, it would mark exactly 100 years since Team

GB last won the tournament at the Stockholm 1912 Olympics.They will be joined by teams from Asia (AFC

By Mike RowbottomMarch 3 - Sarah Stevenson, Britain's world taekwondo champion, is defying expectations with her progress back to fitness after a freak knee injury sustained at the start of February undermined her London 2012 preparations.

Gary Hall, Team GB performance director, said today that the 28-year-old competitor's rehabilitation

mates are preparing for the German Open, a crucial staging post towards London.All of GB Taekwondo's

Chance" initiative and who is now seeking to secure his Olympic qualification.Sansum is one of five GB

The team unity and spirit is really strong," said Hall."

But it is a challenge and so the team must raise its game."

Gosling (nee Webb, pictured left) was one of six British Olympians among a group of more than 150 Team

GB volunteers (pictured below) who came together today for a training and team orientation session at

Loughborough University, which will host the Team GB preparation camp prior to the Olympic Games this

Wearing the Team GB t-shirt feels very special, it is like getting your first kit as an athlete."

be the best possible support we can be for Team GB."

Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt introduced the volunteers to the Team GB mission and ambition for London

do their very best as members of One Team GB."

Olympic venues and villages, Team GB House at Westfield Stratford City and the Team GB preparation camp

By Mike RowbottomMarch 2 - Britain's rhythmic gymnasts will hear within the next week if their appeal for inclusion in the London 2012 Games following the announcement that they had not met the agreed qualification criteria has been successful.

Association take up the London 2012 host nation place when it is expected to announce the gymnastics team

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By Tom DegunMarch 1 - With six months to go to the Paralympic Games, Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced that disabled children across the capital will get the chance to take part in a unique sporting event at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford next month.

Olympic and Paralympic sport charity challenge.The Gold Challenge event on April 1, which will feature Team

GB ambassadors, celebrities and hundreds of representatives from schools and charities across the capital

By Tom DegunFebruary 29 - UK Anti-Doping has today announced details of its most comprehensive anti-doping education and drug testing programme ever in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

British athletes hoping to compete in London 2012.It is expected every single athlete selected for Team

GB and ParalympicsGB will be tested at least once in the run-up to the Games.The programme is being

We are fully committed to doing our outmost to make sure that all athletes wearing the Team GB vest this

anti-doping programme of education and testing, and is totally behind the ambition for a clean British team

By David GoldFebruary 28 - British taekwondo hopefuls Bianca Walkden and Michael Harvey (pictured) have backed the ticket launch for the European Championships which take place in Manchester this May.

had the chance to sell theirs back to London 2012 and more should be put on sale in April.Ian Leafe, GB

It's a great chance for some of our top GB athletes to get championship experience against what will

top Olympic hopefuls as well as a great opportunity for the fans in Manchester, who have supported GB

Taekwondo's journey to date, to support the team."

World champion Sarah Stevenson, whose Olympic hopes were hit recently when she picked up what GB Performance

By Duncan Mackay at the Saatchi Gallery in LondonFebruary 27 - Is this going to be the "must have accessory" that everyone attending the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is going to want to buy, just like the red mittens were at Vancouver 2010?

"Here is an item you can take to show you have gone out and supported the team."

message that all profits from the sale will go to support the athletes, and "wear it, wave it, and help Team

GB WIN with it!"

Amaechi (pictured second from right) has returned to the court in order to launch the Special Olympics GB

The programme offers people with learning disabilities the opportunity to play sport in the same team

learning disabilities for sports training and competition.It is run by the charity Special Olympics GB

delivered through sport centres, clubs and communities all over the country.Amaechi, a Special Olympics GB

exist for people with learning disabilities enabling them to compete in popular sports on the same team

Building on our 34 year history of support for Special Olympics GB by helping them expand their Unified

"London 2012: Team GB badminton hopefuls apologise for Twitter feud".

commercial officer of the British Olympic Association was heard to talk during Social Media Week about how Team

GB are positioning themselves as a team of 900 athletes, 60 million strong, by engaging with the British

By David GoldFebruary 26 - British boxer Tom Stalker has claimed he is glad he missed out on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as he gears up for London 2012, where he will be a genuine medal prospect.

Stalker features in the latest Cadbury's video for their Keep Team GB pumped campaign, "Eye of the Tiger

training rituals while supporters sing the "Eye of the Tiger".It is the latest and final video in the Keep Team

GB pumped campaign.He added: "It's nice to get everyone supporting you and the other athletes from all