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Cadbury encourages British public to "Keep Team GB Pumped"

  • Sponsor News

DegunOctober 29 - London 2012 Tier Two sponsor Cadbury have announced the launch of "Keep Singing Keep Team

GB Pumped" which is a campaign designed to get the nation singing to show their support for Team GB.

campaign of musical support for British athletes is the latest activation of Cadbury that aims to keep Team

GB motivated throughout their months of arduous training by engaging the British public to sing iconic

of innovative ways.Infamous tracks such as Simply the Best and Final Countdown will be used to keep Team

GB pumped in their training schedules, aiming to spur them on to win medals during the Games and in

With Olympic Games and Paralympic Games fever taking hold already, we are sure that Keep Team GB Pumped


Bale poses in Team GB shirt to fuel London 2012 speculation

  • Football

the Football Association of Wales (FAW) after he was pictured posing in a British Olympic football team

Bale has previously said that he would be keen to play for the united Team GB squad at the London 2012

GB will allow for the consideration, and possible inclusion, of players from any of the Home Nations

suppliers of Team GB.

GB football team sparks angerJune 2011: Scottish FA chief claims BOA are trying to sell tickets

for London 2012 with talk of Team GBJune 2011: Exclusive - British Olympic football team "very


I want to be in Team GB, says Celtic's Hooper

  • Football

GoldOctober 28 - Celtic's Gary Hooper has said that he would be keen to be a part of the British football team

compete in the British squad.Hooper, 23, was born in England but has not represented the national team

stand in way of Gareth Bale playing at London 2012 promises Harry RedknappOctober 2011: Playing in Team

GB risks Scotland's independence, warns former managerOctober 2011: "I'm not in Team GB job only to

select English players," says PearceOctober 2011: Exclusive - Pearce and Powell set for Team GB football


Rogers-Hartley to compete for Hong Kong and not GB at London 2012

  • Equestrian News

By David GoldOctober 27 - Show jumper Susi Rogers-Hartley is planning to compete for Hong Kong at next summer's Paralympic Games in London, rather than for Britain.

As much as I would love to represent GB, they have a very strong team," she said."

I'll be a little saddened I'm not competing for GB, but I'll be supporting my friends who are in Team

GB, so it's a bit of a double-edged sword."



Culture Secretary praises progress of Athletes' Village as completed apartments surge past 2,012 properties mark

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunOctober 26 - Jeremy Hunt (pictured), the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, has praised the construction progress of the London 2012 Athletes' Village as the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced that the number of completed apartments on the site had now passed the symbolic 2,012 properties mark.

hour.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesSeptember 2011: Team

GB football squads to set up pre-match camp at Olympic VillageAugust 2011: Qataris to take over London


Stadnik's naturalisation continues to threaten Olympic dream

  • Wrestling

By David GoldOctober 26 - Wrestler Yana Stadnik (pictured right) has been left hoping for a Home Office reprieve if she is to compete for Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The Ukrainian-born wrestler has been part of the British team since 2007 but is still waiting on her

I want to compete for GB to help British wrestling, and also female wrestling, because here it is a very

Anything I do get for GB helps bring more investors in the sport."

She's been here for a long time, invested a lot of effort and been winning medals for GB since 2007."


Phillips follows Reade in backtracking to BMX

  • Cycling

Mike RowbottomOctober 26 - Liam Phillips is to return to BMX racing after a stint of training with the GB

Cycling men's team sprint squad at the Manchester velodrome.

before him, the 22-year-old from Somerset showed the power output potential to bid for man one in the team

succession of injuries that had affected his previous four seasons in BMX, likened trying to break into the team

sprint to a footballer "trying to break into the Barcelona team".Shanaze Reade, the women's BMX world

champion, attempted a similar switch into track cycling's team sprint alongside Victoria Pendleton,


Brailsford cautious despite seven European golds

  • Cycling

By Mike RowbottomOctober 26 - Dave Brailsford, GB Cycling's performance director, has sounded a warning

We didn't really compete in one - the men's team sprint where we had the mishap - and we'll have to go

Despite the healthy number of wins, there was an unsuccessful outing in the men's team sprint, where

a demon for London.Nineteen-year-old Laura Trott (pictured below), already a world champion in the team

pursuit, had another outstanding international outing for Britain as part of the winning women's pursuit team

The way it panned out, with Chris' illness and the mishap in the team sprint, it's frustrating."


BPA head to Newcastle as nationwide search for Paralympic stars continues

  • Rio 2016 Paralympics

By Tom DegunOctober 25 - The British Paralympic Association (BPA) are set to stop in Newcastle in North East England next month as their search of Britain to find talented disabled men and women to represent ParalympicsGB at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics or the Rio 2016 Summer Games continues.

Middlesbrough's Terry Bywater (pictured), one of the stars of Britain's formidable men's wheelchair basketball team

There are a few players in the GB team at the moment who previously attended one of the BPA's talent


Alan Hubbard: Is there really a place for football on the Olympic menu?

  • Inside the Blogs

because Britain wasn't involved.This may change next year of course when, for the first time since 1960 a Team

GB - of sorts - will line up against some of the world's best under-23 players in a competition (the

they are for tennis and will be for golf.However, we are stuck with them and whatever sort of football team

reward for his part in helping London win the bid and his current work as a global ambassador.Lord Coe's team

not settled on an Englishman, albeit an intensely patriotic one in "Psycho" Pearce, to take charge of Team


Murderball coming to Glasgow

  • Wheelchair Rugby News

By David GoldOctober 23 - Wheelchair rugby is coming to Glasgow, with a new club being launched in the city as a hunt for players begins.

also known as "murderball", is one of the most rapidly growing Paralympic sports.Four players on any team

are on the court at any one time, with rolling substitutes allowed, and a team scores when one of their

out the sport.An exhibition match will also be played, with more information available here at the GB


I won't stand in way of Gareth Bale playing at London 2012 promises Harry Redknapp

  • Football

By Duncan MackayOctober 23 - Gareth Bale has been given the green-light to represent Britain in next year's Olympics by Harry Redknapp, his manager at Premier League Tottenham Hotspur.

Bale has made it clear that he wants to play for Team GB even though the Football Association of Wales

If Gareth Bale wants to play in the GB Olympic team who am I to deny him that?" he said."

Now, as coach to Team GB, he must tread more carefullyOctober 2011: "I'm not in Team GB job only

to select English players," says PearceOctober 2011: Exclusive - Pearce and Powell set for Team

GB football roles in London 2012October 2011: Pearce wants to head up Team GB Olympic football


Adams wins historic gold at European Championships as GB claim four medals

  • Boxing

By Tom DegunOctober 22 - Nicola Adams continued to underline her London 2012 Olympic credentials as she stormed to a historic victory at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Women's European Championships in Rotterdam.

European title after she claimed silver in the competition back in 2007 and her victory led a superb GB

her fourth bout representing England and that she was the only one of the six fighters selected by GB

GB Boxing is doing really well right now."

the Year.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesOctober 2011: GB

Boxing names women's team for 2011 European Championships


Playing in Team GB risks Scotland’s independence, warns former manager

  • Football

Scotland player and manager Craig Brown (pictured) has warned that Scottish players choosing to play for Team

GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games will be placing the country's independence in world football in

There have been repeated assurances from FIFA that a GB team would not affect the separate identities

The late David Will, who was a vice-president of FIFA, warned me against agreeing to a GB team and I

Now, as coach to Team GB, he must tread more carefullyOctober 2011: "I'm not in Team GB job only to select

English players," says PearceOctober 2011: Exclusive - Pearce and Powell set for Team GB football roles

in London 2012October 2011: Pearce wants to head up Team GB Olympic football squadSeptember 2011: