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There's no place for football in the Olympics, slams Dai Greene

  • Football

By David GoldNovember 22 - World champion 400 metres hurdler Dai Greene says there is no place for football at the Olympic Games, and has hit out at footballers who become Olympians for a month.

Britain is planning to field a united football team at the Olympic Games for the first time since Rome

Korea earlier this year, said that he supported Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish players competing for Team

GB in the football team - but that he wished there was no such team in the first place.Welsh star Greene


BOA can solve doping row by dropping bylaw now say WADA

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunNovember 21 - David Howman (pictured), the director general of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has hit out at British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan, saying that it is disappointing when someone of his stature makes such misguided accusations.

BOA's draconian bylaw which prevents athletes found guilty of a doping violation from representing Team

GB in the Games.Tensions between the two were aggravated further when WADA declared the BOA "non-compliant

Foundation Board meeting in Montreal due to the BOA bylaw that prevents drugs cheats from representing Team

GB at the Olympics.This bylaw has been under heavy pressure since the Court of Arbitration for Sport


Government hit back at Moynihan over London 2012 legacy criticism

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunNovember 21 - Colin Moynihan is embroiled in a new row, this time with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), who have refuted claims that the London 2012 Games will fail to deliver a lasting sporting legacy for most young Britons because of six years of failed Government policy.

to adopt the BOA bylaw which prevents athletes found guilty of a doping violation from representing Team

GB in the Games.WADA have hit back with John Fahey, the chairman of WADA, saying that "Moynihan makes


Daniel Keatings: Another personal disappointment but great result for Team GB

  • Inside the Blogs

Qualification for the team competition was on Friday 11 when we were up against our fellow teams from

Germany, Russia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ukraine and a mixed team.

GB.Luckily enough, Team GB has a very strong squad and Ruslan Panteleymonov took my place.

Team GB had a much better competition than at the Worlds and breezed through qualifications, before finishing

Well done to all of Team GB – a great result!


Cooke's World Junior Championship quest goes swimmingly

  • Modern Pentathlon

medal tally to three following the individual bronze won by Freyja Prentice yesterday, when the women's team

left the shooting range together at the end of the first shoot.Cheered on by the other members of the GB

team who were not competing, Cooke took the lead after the second of three shoots and crossed the finish

achievement, just fantastic," said Cooke, who is originally from Cheltenham but now trains at the Pentathlon GB

who has already achieved the London 2012 qualifying standard, but is not yet certain of place on the team

Philipp Waeffler, men's head coach for Pentathlon GB, said: "It was a bit of a slow start, but after


Doping row escalates as BOA declared “non-compliant” by WADA

  • London 2012

By David OwenNovember 20 - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has tonight declared the British Olympic Association (BOA) "non-compliant" with its global code, in a move set to aggravate tensions between the two bodies.

grind on until then.The bone of contention is a BOA bylaw that prevents drugs cheats from representing Team

GB at the Olympics.This bylaw has been under heavy pressure since a ruling by the Court of Arbitration

will vigorously defend any challenge to the selection policy which bans drug cheats from representing Team

GB and we will publish the process we intend to follow in the near future."


"I'd love to play in the Olympics," says Joe Cole

  • Football

England's Lille midfielder Joe Cole has said that he would "love to play in the Olympics" if selected by Team

GB manager Stuart Pearce.

in Ukraine and Poland next summer.That means that the 30-year-old would be a prime contender for the Team

GB football team, for which Pearce is able to pick three players over the age of 23.David Beckham is

stories November 2011: Great Britain men's football team begin Olympics campaign on July 26November

all dream about the Olympics" claims BeckhamNovember 2011: Ramsey highlights desire to play for Team

GB by posing in BOA shirtOctober 2011: Bale poses in Team GB shirt to fuel London 2012 speculation


Quilter adds European VI judo title to his list of achievements

  • Judo News

By Mike RowbottomNovember 18 - Ben Quilter earned gold for Britain in the Visually Impaired European Judo Championships at Crawley today to set himself up for his Paralympic quest in 2012.

The Visually Impaired team is fully integrated at the British Judo Performance Institute in Dartford

in TurkeyMarch 2011: World champion Quilter aiming for Turkish delight at World GamesJanuary 2011: GB

securing five-medal haulJanuary 2011: Sanders calls for consistency from British Judo's visually-impaired team


Mike Rowbottom: Will trampolining be the new curling at London 2012?

  • Inside the Blogs

returned to these shores - well, all right, to Scotland - trailing clouds of glory after she had led her GB

team to the curling gold at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games, there were sundry optimistic assertions

eight hours of agonising waiting, by collapsing in tears of joy in the arms of her husband, the former GB


Lesley Reid out of Visually Impaired European Championships

  • Judo News

By David GoldNovember 18 - British Judo's preparations for this weekend's Visually Impaired European Championships took a blow when Lesley Reid (pictured right) was ruled ineligible to compete.

Reid joined Team GB in 2010 after impressing during a talent programme for UK Sport, and claimed bronze


Party for the Podium to provide athlete training experiences to others

  • London 2012

to experience the dedication required to compete at the top, with beach volleyballers, handballers, GB

These experiences are Ideal for Christmas presents, group activities, employee rewards or team building

Louise Jukes, member of Britain's handball team, added: "This format is fantastic, its allows us to interact


British lifetime Olympic ban rule to be tested at CAS

  • London 2012

Olympic Association is to defend its controversial bylaw which prevents drugs cheats from representing Team

GB in the Games to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA

 Chambers would help the 4x100m relay team challenge the Jamaicans and Americans as they seek to


WADA are "toothless" claims British Olympic Association chairman

  • London 2012

) draconian bylaw which prevents athletes found guilty of a doping violation from representing Team

GB in the Games.

There is no national team kit for that clean athlete. "No redemption for him.

scope beyond just trying to catch athletes who are doping and instead also chase after their support team


Andy Hunt: Be there with Team 2012

  • Inside the Blogs

GB – Our Greatest Team:  the 550 athletes who will come from towns and cities throughout the UK

GB in fifth place with 59 medals.

GB leadership.As we approach the end of the year and enter the awards season, I look back on countless

GB.

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


Exclusive: Carl Froch confident about Team GB's chances at London 2012

  • Boxing

WarringtonNovember 15 - The WBC super-middleweight champion, Carl Froch, has declared his optimism over Team

GB."

Our team is very strong."They'll do very well and bring home some Olympic medals."

Froch also believes that, with McCracken in charge, Team GB couldn't possibly be better served."

It's phenomenal, what he's done for the team."

He knows how those [Team GB] boxers think inside out and he knows how to work with them individually.