By Duncan MackayJanuary 9 - March 12 has been set as the date at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for the British Olympic Associaiton (BOA) to defend its controversial anti-doping bylaw which, if it is overturned, would allow drugs cheats like Dwain Chambers and David Millar to compete at London 2012.

GB in the Games.The BOA will be represented in its appeal by external legal advisors Lord David Pannick

GB – and makes clear that any athlete who deliberately cheats by using prohibited substances is not

The policy addresses what form Team GB should take, and does not seek to punish any individual athlete

GB would damage team morale, atmosphere and cohesiveness" and a that "an athlete who deliberately cheats

should not take the place in Team GB of a clean athlete, who has trained and competed in full adherence

Stuart Bithell (right), two of the rising young stars in British sailing, are the newest members of Team

GB for the London 2012 Olympic Games, it was announced today by the British Olympic Association (BOA

GB sailing team leader Stephen Park."

Campaigning to represent Team GB at the Games in this class is probably the hardest challenge – with

Team GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt commented: "Despite having competed together for a relatively short

GB."

GB selections for London 2012 

But this is actually a Team GB success story worthy of a gold medal.So third, reports of the decline

By Duncan MackayJanuary 9 - London 2012 are due to take control of the Olympic Park from the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) this week as today marks 200 days until the Opening Ceremony on July 27.

"But this is actually a Team GB success story worthy of a gold medal."

By Tom DegunAs we enter the year of 2012, the eyes of the world's elite disability sporting talent are understandably fixed on August 29 to September 9, the date when the London Paralympic Games will captivate the globe.Before those Games take place, though, there is the small matter of getting to them in the best possible shape and for many of Britain's top Paralympic sailors that means competing the 2012 International Association for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) World Championships.This year the competition will take place at the picturesque Laishley Park Marina in Florida and for Alexandra Rickham, one of Britain's top...

admitted that it was a huge honour to be one of the first five Paralympic athletes selected to represent GB

We're desperate to bring home a medal for the team and the best way to make that happen is to continue

Paralympic gold.But the 25-year-old from Manchester, the youngest member of the British disability sailing team

January 4 - Pride the Lion, the Team GB mascot, joins Wenlock and Mandeville in having his own pin badges

By Tom DegunJanuary 5 - Sarah Storey is one of six British Paralympic champions that will line up at the 2012 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles next month after she was named by British Cycling as one of their 14 riders for the prestigious competition.

to compete at the Paralympics and Olympics dashed when she was dropped from the women's able-bodied team

pursuit squad last month.However, it is likely she will be part of a successful team in Los Angeles

track debut for Britain at the eventHelen Scott (pictured), who will pilot for McGlynn, completes the team

Britain will also be fielding riders in the team sprint and Sacramento-based Mark Bristow, who retired

from the British team last year, will be a guest rider for GB in the mixed scratch race.Contact the

The final day of competition was the team sprint, and with the rules changing regarding composition of

the team almost at every event I was part of a new line up.

I was there to score qualification points for GB, these points are essential as without them the team

Before then joining up with the GB squad and heading out to Segovia in Spain for the second round of

trip almost to an end it was a quick flight over to Glasgow, where I joined a few other members of the GB

published world rankings from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) placed seven members of the GB

The new rankings for men showed six members of the GB squad in the top five in the world in their class

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is apparent from recent results which are due in no small measure to a body whose involvement with Team

the British Olympic Association (BOA) has got its act together so professionally for the benefit of Team

nbsp;     Worked with 16 of the 17 Paralympic sports represented by Paralympics GB

  I began to work closely with the nutritionist from the EIS (Mark Ellison) who works with GB Boxing

behind Team GB.Alan Hubbard is an award-winning sports columnist for The Independent on Sunday, and

By David GoldJanuary 3 - A quartet of Celtic's women's team have been approached to play for Team GB

GB as they fear it threatens their independence as football nations.Celtic confirmed that the quartet

could be picked by Hope Powell for Team GB next year and a spokesperson said that they would be "delighted

GB women's team is also likely to be quite dependent on Scottish players such as Arsenal's Kim Little

, though her team-mate and fellow Scot Julie Fleeting has said she will not play for Team GB.Contact

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Cold comfort indeed – especially for those members of the team who defeated returning Olympic champions

Moscow would also have been the first Games for the GB women in the inaugural female tournament.Speaking

the rower Chris Davidge, who competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics before going on to be the Team

GB Chef de Mission in Montreal,  I got an insight into the political pressures which distorted

Therefore there is no reason whatsoever why the Olympic team should be crucified, as it were.

By David GoldJanuary 2 - Gold medal stamps will be released by Royal Mail to celebrate Team GB's victories

they will issue stamps which will mark Olympic victories, and they will feature both individual and team

By Alan HubbardJanuary 1 - The British Government is preparing a clampdown on the number of foreign athletes seeking to represent the country at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Wrestling's recruitment of several grapplers from Eastern Europe and blatantly trying to qualify them for Team

GB.

She is one of two foreign-born wrestlers in the GB squad with a realistic hope of reaching the 2012 podium

woman "allowed him to gain citizenship and fill the one 'foreigner' position on the national basketball team

he wants fellow cyclist David Millar (pictured left with Cavendish) to be available to compete for Team

GB at London 2012.

Millar was a key components of the British team that helped Cavendish win the Road World Championships

this year and he believes that Millar's lifetime Olympics ban is both unfair and to the detriment of Team

An incredible person to have on the team. "I'd love him to be in London [at the Olympics]."

controversial British Olympic Association (BOA) bylaw, Millar is currently banned from representing Team

GB because in 2004 he was suspended for two years after admitting taking banned performance-enhancing