The GB team came second in the medals table in Beijing, which is a fantastic position to head into in

a home Games.As a former Paralympian, I know what GB athletes must be thinking and going through at

By Tom DegunAugust 26 - Glasgow 2014 has appointed Liz Mendl as the new head of medical services for the Commonwealth Games where she will oversee the scoping, planning and delivery of all medical services during the event, including the management of the anti-doping programme.

the majority of my career, it will be an honour to work in what I know will be a focused and driven team

for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in 2008 and camp manager for Paralympics GB

and teams need to earn their place at the Games before the athletes can be selected into the Olympic team

Five hundredth of a second was one of the qualifying margins for one of the GB Beijing crews in 2007.

UK School Games was the platform to her elite recognition.The Games has played host to a number of GB

gold at the 2007 UK School Games and recently competed for Great Britain in the World Championship team

young people to see how taking part in sport can improve social skills like increased confidence and team

By Tom DegunAugust 23 - British Paralympic star Simon Richardson is said to be in "good spirits" despite a serious hit-and-run accident ending his chances of competing at London 2012.

Although Simon wasn't currently within the GB Paralympics performance programme, the times and training

adapted bike powered only by his right leg.He made his disability sport debut in the Welsh national team

received.I have even heard it suggested that he might combine his task as Deputy Chef de Mission for Team

GB at 2012 with a mentoring role to the British men's and women's football teams, though should

he eventually return to rugby, surely no-one is better equipped to be in charge of the GB rugby

He says he was "quite happy" to be watching the beach volleyball test event when England's rugby team

I don't think that there's been a team which has lost a game on the way and won the World Cup."

By Tom DegunAugust 21 - Great Britain's top Paralympic archers have returned home from the 2011 Para-Archery World Ranking Event in Nymburk in the Czech Republic with a fantastic haul of eight gold medals, three silvers and two bronzes.

medals on the last day of the event.Brown's first gold came in the individual event where she beat GB

the mixed compound event before she teamed up with Beamish and Pippa Britton to secure victory in the team

competition.Britain's final gold medals came in team events in the recurvers as the women's trio of

It's been a fantastic week, well worth going, and every one headed for home on a real high," said GB

The GB archers will be firm favourites to come out on at the London 2012 Paralympics next year when the

By Duncan MackayAugust 20 - Erica Kerner, Global Olympic Games director and head of London 2012 for Adidas, is quitting the German sports manufacturer to take up a new role in Hong Kong less than a year before the Games are due to open.

of international marketing for retail.Her most high-profile position in that role was overseeing the team

Among her roles has been working closely with Stella McCartney as Adidas' creative director for Team

story at [email protected] storiesSeptember 2010: Stella McCartney launches Team

GB collection for London 2012July 2010: Stella McCartney to design British kit for London 2012July 2008

pictured), younger brother of WBA light welterweight champion Amir, is set to lead the Pakistan boxing team

after choosing to fight for Pakistan ahead of England after claiming he had been unfairly snubbed by GB

the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for making in onto the podium in Delhi and claimed he made a point to GB

Khan, who competes for Pakistan under his grandmother's name Iqbal, will now lead a five-man Pakistani team

Pakistan after England snubMarch 2010: Pakistan coach warns Haroon Khan he is not guaranteed place in team

By Tom Degun in LondonAugust 19 - A special programme presented by Clare Balding featuring the best of the action from the London Prepares Series is to be shown at the London 2012 Live Sites across the UK this Sunday (August 21) afternoon.

programme will also show the key moments from the London International Basketball Invitational, which saw Team

GB take on five of the world's top teams in the first test event on the Olympic Park, as well as highlights

By Tom DegunAugust 19 - British Paralympic rowing star Tom Aggar (pictured) is set to compete in his biggest event ahead of London 2012 as the world's best competitors head to the 2011 World Para-Rowing Championships which place on Lake Bled in Slovenia from August 28 to September 4.

and Australia's Paralympic silver medallists John MacLean and Kathryn Ross.Canada's world champion team

compete in the legs, trunk and arms mixed coxed four (LTAMix4+) event.They will be up against a strong team

from Germany, which won bronze at last year's Championships, with a team of Christiane Quirn, Michael

survivor, he is a competitorJuly 2011: Scowen hoping for a podium finish at World Championships as GB

Rowing team is announcedMay 2011: Aggar stretches four-year unbeaten record with World Cup victory

By Tom Degun in LondonAugust 18 - Alfa Romeo, the official car supplier to UK Athletics, gave three of Britain's top athletes an introduction to taekwondo, the national sport of South Korea, before they head off to that country for the World Championships in Daegu next week.

ambassadors in attendance at Pineapple Studios in central London as they took part in a masterclass led by Team

UK Athletics and GB taekwondo will both become part of Team GB next year, so it's great to spend time

Association (BOA) director of sport, believes that his organisation must ensure perfect preparation for Team

GB at London 2012 so they can replicate his successful England team that won the Rugby World Cup in

Sir Clive, who will be Deputy Chef de Mission for Team GB at London 2012, is set to draw on his experience

I love all sport and our job at the BOA and my job as Deputy Chef de Mission for Team GB is to make sure

I will continue on that learning curve when I am Team GB Chef de Mission at the Innsbruck 2012 Winter

GB."

It is a framework similar to the one we used when I was the England rugby team."

By Tom DegunAugust 17 – London 2012 has revealed details of its plans to host International Paralympic Day on September 8 this year with Trafalgar Square set to stage the event and South African superstar Oscar Pistorius lined up to be one of the star attractions.

way to encourage people to sign up for Paralympic tickets and show their support for the Paralympics GB

team in just over a year's time."

amateurs anyway, being supported by the state, college bursaries, sponsorship or as in the case of Team

GB, generous Lottery funding.

 How many Team GB boxers still have plumber, electrician, schoolteacher or even 'unemployed' on

GB - because of their association with pro boxing!

It will be interesting to see if the US team, who are being assisted by the esteemed pro coach Freddie