Imagine you are a young, male footballer - under 23, in fact - and you have been invited to play for Team

GB at the London 2012 Games in what will be the first British representation in the Olympic football

GB players in London 2012 - Stuart Pearce, whose nickname of Psycho, which accompanied him through an

GB - which is scheduled to play a couple of friendlies before the Games begin, one of which will probably

be a double-header with the women's Team GB side – will mean young players are effectively getting some

StadiumOctober 20 - Stuart Pearce and Hope Powell were today confirmed officially as respective managers for the Team

GB men's and women's football teams at the London 2012 Games, as revealed first on insidethegames.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had not softened their stance on releasing players for a British team

GB to call upon their players."

fails to make it past the group stages, players could return to play for Team GB."

Andy Hunt (pictured right), Team GB Chef de Mission, added: "With this announcement the teams are now

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

RowbottomOctober 19 - Stuart Pearce and Hope Powell are set to be named as respective managers for the Team

GB men's and women's football teams at London 2012, nine years after they studied alongside each other

Winterbottom.Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson was one of the early tips for the job of Team

GB team manager, having been informally sounded out by Lord Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman.But

story at  [email protected] storiesOctober 2011: Pearce wants to head up Team

GB Olympic football squadJanuary 2011: Pearce set to manage British Olympic football team at London

2012August 2008: Pearce keen to manage British football team in 2012May 2008: Pearce appointed

By David GoldOctober 18 - LA Galaxy's David Beckham has reiterated his desire to play for Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and has his sights firmly set on gold.

David Beckham helps launch Samsung London 2012 marketing campaignApril 2011: Beckham keen to play for Team

GB football team in 2012January 2011: Coe wants British Dream Team at London 2012November 2011:

By Emily GoddardOctober 17 - Great Britain's women's handball team will head to Montenegro in the first

Following their victory against Finland in the pre-qualifiers, Britain were drawn in a four-team pool

victories over the Czech Republic earlier this year.And following their midweek match, the British team

By Tom DegunOctober 14 - Six fighters, including London 2012 gold medal favourite Nicola Adams (pictured right), have been selected to compete at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) 2011 Women's European Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands later this month.

welterweight (64kg), with Nina Smith fighting at bantamweight (54kg).Lisa Whiteside is the final member of the team

compete at featherweight (57kg) but is the only fighter in Rotterdam that is not currently part of the GB

women's squad and will provide a benchmark of how they are progressing in the build-up to 2012," said GB

In 2011, the women's GB Boxing squad has won four medals in two international competitions in Poland

shortly after Jonas won bronze at the prestigious Strandja Cup in Bulgaria in February.The women's team

By David GoldOctober 9 - Double world 10 kilometres open water champion Keri-Anne Payne is refusing to be distracted by the prospect of claiming gold at next year's Olympic Games.

It was all about making sure I qualified, doing what I needed to do to make the team – and then it was

swimmers, the South Africa-born athlete is looking forward to having the home crowd behind her and Team

GB in 2012."

By Tom DegunOctober 8 - Despite securing their best ever finish at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Boxing Championships with a haul of four medals, British boxers suffered an agonising final day in Baku as Andrew Selby, Luke Campbell, and Anthony Joshua were all narrowly denied gold in a series of close contests.

won bronze in the light-welterweight division.The four medal haul is the best-ever performance by a GB

Boxing team at the World Championships and tops the three medals won in Chicago in 2007.The team also

weight categories for the London 2012 Olympic Games with all the medal winners likely to compete and GB

The team has put in a superb performance and to come away with four medals and five Olympic qualifying

Boxing and predicts more medal success in 2012September 2011: GB Boxing selects team for World

By Tom DegunOctober 5 - Super-heavyweight Anthony Joshua produced a superb performance to guarantee Britain four medals at the 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku.

least a bronze medal and secure his place at next year's Olympic Games.He is the fifth member of the team

The support we've had has been brilliant and the team has been brilliant here as well."

Campbell and Evans secure first British boxing spots at London 2012September 2011: UK Sport praises GB

Boxing and predicts more medal success in 2012September 2011: GB Boxing selects team for World

By Tom DegunOctober 5 - The England Hockey Board are launching an ambitious new programme titled Hockey Nation which will see an exciting array of hockey events and activities take place over the next year to take advantage of the increased profile that London 2012 will give hockey.

such as Hockey House supporter venues set up for the Olympics to allow people to get together to watch GB

will have Hockey House supporter venues for the Games so people can congregate to watch and support GB

campaigns leading into the Olympics, there will be a number of campaigns during the Games to get behind the team

We are encouraging every GB fan attending hockey to wear red so we can create a kind of 'red army' to

They can be the official GB shirts or simply just a red top."

David Gold in LondonOctober 5 - Procter & Gamble UK (P&G) has joined forces with Paralympics GB

We are actually delivering an improvement to the performance of Team GB, so it's a fantastic win win

Tim Hollingsworth, head of Paralympics GB, said that "the nearest and dearest programme is designed to

everyone gets involved, we will invite them to session across the country," echoing the sentiments of Team

GB Chef de Mission and BOA chief executive Andy Hunt, who said that "we want every athlete to be competing

launch of the initiative, world 10k open water champion Keri-Anne Payne (pictured below), the first GB

By Tom DegunOctober 4 - Tom Stalker (pictured), Luke Campbell and Fred Evans have become the first British boxers to secure their spots at the London 2012 Olympic Games after the trio reached the quarterfinal stage at the 2011 AIBA World Championships in Baku.

for the Olympics in four categories is an excellent performance but the job is far from done," said GB

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Boxing and predicts more medal success in 2012September 2011: GB Boxing selects team for World

England's under-21 boss Stuart Pearce has confirmed that he wants to manage the Great British football team

coach later this year, with England women's coach Hope Powell likely to take charge of their Olympic team

penalty during England's World Cup semi-final against Germany in 1990.He has managed the England under-21 team

GB football squads to set up pre-match camp at Olympic VillageSeptember 2011: I'd definitely play

GB and Scots say they want to play at London 2012June 2011: BOA decision to pick Scottish and Welsh

players for Team GB football team sparks anger 

By David GoldOctober 2 - GB Taekwondo has announced a new partnership with Cimac to provide their academy

David Mills, the managing director of Cimac, said: "We are both excited and honoured to be sponsoring GB

His sentiments were echoed by Gary Hall, GB Taekwondo's performance director, who said: "I'm delighted

quality and design of their performance clothing and equipment will be a key factor in providing our GB

The team wore the equipment at British International Open in Manchester this weekend, as the team gear

earlier this year.With rising stars Aaron Cook and Jade Jones also in contention for medals next year, GB

By Tom DegunOctober 2 - The iconic Lord's Cricket Ground has been reconfigured to host the London 2012 archery test event which is due to start tomorrow and which will be titled the London Archery Classic.

British field for the event including Simon Terry, Larry Godfrey and Alan Wills, who all competed for Team

GB at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.For the women, five-time Olympian Alison Williamson, Naomi Folkard

The test event is an extremely important tournament for all of us [the GB Archery team] because not only

London Archery Classic will see the first medals will be awarded on Tuesday (October 4) when the men's team

tournament takes place.The women's team tournament takes place the following day and the men's individual