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Team GB named for Wheelchair Basketball European Championships

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

By David GoldAugust 2 - The British women's squad for next month's Wheelchair Basketball European Championships, taking place in Nazareth, Israel has been confirmed.

The team will be confident of success after taking gold at the BT Paralympic World Cup in May and bronze

The Europeans will really give us an idea of how far this team has come in a year and provide us with


Exclusive: New programme leaves Olympic door open for top professionals to compete at Rio 2016

  • Boxing

By Tom DegunAugust 2 - Floyd Mayweather Junior, Manny Pacquiao (pictured) and Amir Khan could be eligible to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro under radical new plans proposed by International Boxing Association (AIBA) President C K Wu, he has claimed.

hit himself but the judges astonishingly gave the decision to the Bulgarian by a 10-9 decision.The US team

director for the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA), will not be allowed in the corner of the GB


"Mission accomplished" at Medway, says Bartu

  • Modern Pentathlon

Britain's performance at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Medway Park, where two of their team

earned Olympic qualification places, represented "mission accomplished" as far Jan Bartu, the Pentathlon GB

Prentice emulated his achievement by finishing eighth in the women's final yesterday.Speaking after a GB

men's team of juniors James Myatt and Rob Flack, along with senior challenger Sam Weale, had finished

the World Cup Final and European Championships back-to-back has been a fantastic experience for the team

(pictured) have achieved the qualification standard, they are not guaranteed places on the British team

in Moscow in September.In the penultimate competition of the Championships, a young British women's team


I could handle Team GB at the Olympics, claims former Arsenal assistant manager

  • Football

David GoldAugust 1 - The race to coach the Great Britain football team at the London 2012 Olympic Games

I certainly feel I could handle Team GB at the Olympics."

Hayes now works in the United States as the technical director of professional women's team New York

Mo Marley, the coach of Everton Ladies and the England under-19 team, could be another in the frame for


BOA to give 5,000 Olympic tickets to aspiring British athletes

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunAugust 1 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) today revealed that it will give approximately 5,000 London 2012 Olympic tickets to promising British athletes and young people involved in Olympic sport development across the UK through the London 2012 Ticketshare scheme.

participate in sport and to instil the Olympic Values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect," said Andy Hunt, Team

GB Chef de Mission and BOA chief executive."

GB at future Games.This will include all the athletes who represented Team GB in the Singapore 2010

Olympians from previous Olympic Games.Earlier this year, the BOA announced that it will provide all Team

GB Olympians from previous Games, both summer and winter, with the opportunity to purchase four tickets



Record performance from Britain at European Youth Olympic Festival

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Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Trabzon, Turkey, carried the flag at the closing ceremony for a British team

behind Russia with 21, 17, 16 and ahead of Ukraine, Italy and Romania.Reflecting on the success of Team

GB, Chef de Mission Craig Hunter said:"This has been a great festival and our team has been very successful

"You just need to look at the medal table where we finished second, to see how well the team have performed

Barry Collie, Gymnastics team leader, added: "It was really moving to see him and I was very proud."


Cooke serves up record breaking performance to guarantee Britain spot at London 2012

  • Modern Pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomJuly 30 - Jamie Cooke became the first British modern pentathlete to achieve the London 2012 Olympic qualification standard when he finished fourth in the European Championships at Medway Park.

precautionary measure because of a bone stress in his right foot.Cooke, now training at the Pentathlon GB

Russia's Andrei Moiseev just beat team-mate Serguei Karyakin to win gold while Dmytro Kirpulyanskyy,

of the Ukraine took bronze.But Cooke said he does not intend to rest on his laurels with team-mates Sam

Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director, said: "We had a fantastic day today.

He has worked hard and he's got good coaches and a good support team behind him.


Exclusive: Sir Clive Woodward claims he wants to stay at BOA for Rio 2016

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By Tom DegunJuly 28 - Sir Clive Woodward, the British Olympic Association (BOA) director of sport, has claimed that he plans stay at the organisation through to at least the Rio 2016 Olympic Games despite continually being lnked with a high-profile return to rugby.

performance director position.He was huge favourite for the role having coached England's World Cup winning team

GB – he wants to stay in his current role beyond London 2012.

I'm going to Rio this November with the team for early planning for the Games so after London 2012; my

GB at home," said Sir Clive, who will also be Team GB Chef de Mission at the Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth

GB in London 2012 and I am now just really looking forward to the London 2012 getting underway."


London 2012 must be congratulated for outstanding job, admits BOA chairman

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 27 - With exactly one year to go until the start of the Olympic Games, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan has admitted London should be congratulated for the outstanding work they have done in preparing the city to host the biggest sporting event on the planet.

We are confident of delivering our aspiration for Team GB to win more medals across more sports than

With one year to go, our message to aspiring Team GB athletes is this: remain confident in your preparations

GB Chef de Mission for the London 2012 Olympics."

GB, and to do so in a home Olympics."

GB next summer, are able to fulfil their potential at the greatest moment of their sporting careers.



Tom Degun: Twitter is fast looking like the one uncontrollable element of London 2012

  • Inside the Blogs

this month when the British Olympic Association (BOA) launched a grand unveiling of their London 2012 Team

GB House, which is located at the rather impressive Westfield Stratford City that overlooks the Olympic

Woodward, the director of sport for the BOA, revealed the code of conduct that has been drawn up for Team

GB athletes at the Games.Undoubtedly, the credentials of Sir Clive as a winner in elite sport are difficult

2012 gold medal prospect Phillips Idowu.Van Commenee was upset that Idowu withdrew from the European Team


Team GB still on target for fourth place finish at London 2012 claim UK Sport

  • London 2012

By Mike Rowbottom in LondonJuly 25 - With the one-year-to-go marker looming up, UK Sport say that they are still firmly on target to achieve fourth place in the Olympics medal table, and second place in the Paralympics table, at London 2012.

I'm confident that the UK Sport's 'no compromise' approach will give Team GB and ParalympicsGB the best

"This will be the best resourced and best prepared British team in history and I am hopeful our athletes


Special Olympics GB to receive financial boost from CMS

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By Emily GoddardJuly 25 - Special Olympics Great Britain is set to benefit from a major financial boost from London law firm CMS Cameron McKenna who has named it as its chosen charity for 2011-2013.

Special Olympics GB is the country's largest year-round sports training and competition programme for

I was immediately impressed with Special Olympics GB and that was before I had even spoken to anyone

from the Special Olympics team."

Special Olympics GB relies on the support of corporate and private donations to help oversee 138 groups

each UK office will engage their staff and help to coordinate interaction with local Special Olympics GB


Team 2012 signs up Deloitte as new supporter

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackayJuly 25 - Team 2012 and its presenting partner Visa, which is helping raise funds to

deal with News International which allowed its newspapers to call itself the "Official Newspaper of Team

support was launched when they hosted the first in a series of events around the UK introducing the Our Team

 Team 2012, presented by Visa, has created a programme for small and medium sized companies (SMEs

) called Our Team 2012 and Deloitte is perfectly positioned to highlight opportunities to firms around

Sport, the British Olympic Association, Paralympics GB and London 2012, helping support athletes selected