For the athletes aiming to represent Team GB next summer, the past year has been one of intense training

GB athletes the maximum opportunity to succeed when it matters most and the next seven months will be

GB athletes win more medals across more sports for over a century.

leaders and performance directors to make certain Team GB athletes have the high performance services

GB Chef de Mission and chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA).

Joshua's confidence is shared by Rob McCracken, Team GB Boxing Team chief who says: "We always knew we

By David GoldDecember 28 - Team GB ambassadors Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have spent a day at

the University of Bath with the British rhythmic gymnastics team as they gear up for London 2012.

they gear up for the gymnastics test event next month.Sarah Moon, coach of the rhythmic gymnastics team

, said:  "Today has been absolutely fantastic; it has been a real boost to the team to have Team

GB Ambassadors and Olympic Champions Jayne and Chris here mentoring today."

models".Torvill and Dean were revealed to be part of the 27-strong group of Olympians who would be Team

GB 2012 ambassadors in March, and their appearance in Bath was part of the plan to bring together the

By David GoldDecember 27 - Olympic gold medallist Marlon Devonish has told insidethegames that Britain's hopes of success in the 4x100 metres at London 2012 will not be lost on a failed changeover, as happened in Daegu at the World Championships earlier this year.

Aikines-Aryeetey as he collided with the United States' Darvis Patton.Devonish was left clutching the baton as his team

For the relay team the slowest athlete in the Jamaican team run 9.8s, and the Americans are in that ilk

smallest increments either up or down can have giant effects – as Sarah Storey found out after helping GB

win team pursuit gold at the World Cup in Cali, Colombia, when she returned to discover she had been

selectors] were looking for and so this is the end of the journey for me with the Great Britain pursuit team

who was seeking to ride in both the Olympics and Paralympics next summer.Storey's departure from the team

challenge was undermined by injury in October, and Lizzie Armitstead, a member of the 2009 world champion team

in Apeldoorn, Holland, in March – in place of Rowsell – the GB head coach Shane Sutton suggested a comparison

The main request is an Olympic gold medal in the team pursuit.

, and this year for the Horizon Fitness team.

Her father, Trevor, competed for Team GB biathlon in the biathlon at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics

When I first came into the GB team I was a sprinter, despite having an endurance background.

By Mike RowbottomDecember 26 - Julie Page, whose points helped the GB senior women's team achieve their

round place in EuroBasket 2011.The power forward averaged 10 points a game and 7.5 rebounds as the team

This year has been an incredible ride for both me personally and the Standard Life GB women's team.

with the GB under-20 men where he averaged 13 points, seven rebounds and a tournament-high five assists

per game.As a result Chris Finch called him up to the senior team where he shone during the Olympic

so happy to have been awarded this title, especially since it was my first official outing with the GB

Lennon has revealed that Scott Brown, James Forrest and Adam Matthews have been lined up to play for Team

GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games and says he will not stand in their way if they are selected and

players to ask whether they would be willing to take part in the team.The fielding of a united British team

: Rooney set to miss out on Olympics after Pearce rules out Euro 2012 squadDecember 2011: Team

GB begins recruiting footballers for London 2012December 2011: Arsenal youngster insists "Olympics

By Mike RowbottomDecember 23 - Karina Bryant took a bronze medal in her final event of the year at the 2011 Qingdao Judo Grand Prix in China.

Other members of the five-strong GB team put in respectable performances with Sarah Adlington taking

By David GoldJanuary 23 - Jordanne Whiley (pictured), Britain's youngest ever wheelchair tennis champion, is hoping to make it a summer to remember this year as she bids for glory at Wimbledon in July and then at the London 2012 Paralympic Games a few weeks later.

home crowd behind her again in London, and to help with that Whiley has been part of Cadbury's Keep Team

GB Pumped campaign, which looks to get the public involved in the Games by cheering British athletes

By Mike RowbottomDecember 22 - Andy Hunt, the British Olympic Association chief executive, has cited the achievements of Keri-Anne Payne (pictured) as his favourite sporting performance of the year as he announced the recipients of the 2011 Olympic Athlete of the Year trophy.

2012 with the victory, commented:  "Following a successful World Championships for the British Team

"This bodes well for next summer when the whole of the UK can play their part in helping Team GB – Our

Greatest Team to achieve something special."

By Tom DegunDecember 22 - Gold Challenge, the UK's only Olympic and Paralympic sport based charity challenge, has revealed that 50,000 people across the UK have signed up to take on an Olympic themed challenge and raise money for one of its 150 charity partners.

be among the first people in the world to run the 100 metre on the track that will see the stars of Team

GB and ParalympicsGB compete against world class Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the summer of 2012

www.goldchallenge.org pick their sporting challenge and charity and register for free.Gold Challenge is partnered with Team

GB and Sport England as part of the £135 million ($212 million/€158 million) Places People Play scheme

By Tom DegunDecember 21 - Britain's top cyclists, including Mark Cavendish (pictured), are set to base themselves in Surrey ahead of the London 2012 Olympics, the location where the majority of the men's road race is scheduled for.

pictured right) has received a boost heading into the London 2012 Olympics after being named as the GB

managed to hold off the pair to collect the prestigious trophy at a special ceremony attended by the GB

performance director, Gary Hall, and GB taekwondo chairman, Jeremy Beard."

I am so proud to be awarded Athlete of the Year, even more so because the team has done so well and there

have been some great performances from other GB athletes."

taekwondo team at French OpenFebruary 2011: Stamper and Jones are Britian's golden wonders

By David GoldDecember 20 - Members of the public had the chance to begin Christmas with a bang by getting their hands on one of 50 pairs of tickets, released by Cadbury's from a giant party popper, to the London 2012 Olympic Games at Westfield Stratford today.

[email protected] storiesOctober 2011: Cadbury encourages British public to "Keep Team

GB Pumped"August 2011: Wenlock and Mandeville to be turned into chocolate and jelly babiesSeptember

By Tom DegunDecember 20 - Dr Stuart Miller, the clinical director of the MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine Course at the University of Bath, has been appointed as the Head Sports Doctor for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

no stranger to the world of elite sport after he served as the chief medical officer for Paralympics GB

the University of Bath who have been heavily involved in the build-up to London 2012.The Malaysian team