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Lane4 and Loughborough University launch high performance sport leadership programme

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Lane4's experience in the corporate world, research from Loughborough University and insights from Team

GB will be launched in November this year.

Loughborough University's campus which will be the official 2012 preparation camp headquarters for Team

GB.The programme will explore leadership from individual, team and organisational perspectives and will


Exclusive: Rift with London 2012 was caused by my dedication to athletes, claims Moynihan

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By Tom Degun at Westfield Stratford in LondonJuly 12 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan (pictured) has claimed that his dedication to athletes was the reason his organisation created negative headlines in their high-profile dispute with London 2012 earlier this year and also why he missed the 123rd International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Durban in South Africa last week.

Moynihan, who was today in Westfield Stratford City to unveil the Team GB House for the London 2012


Alan Hubbard: Will Britain's lack of home-grown coaching talent limit the sustainability of London 2012's legacy?

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to promote athletes from overseas who conveniently are able to switch nationalities and compete for Team

GB at the expense of some home-grown talent.It is not something confined to athletics.

Half the England cricket team sound as if they have stepped off a plane from Jo'burg.

research for the Independent on Sunday has revealed that in all, at least 21 of the 26 sports in which Team

GB will compete in London will have performance directors or senior coaches who have been expensively


Olympic champions Ohuruogu and Williams launch online hunt for next generation of gold medallists

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By Tom DegunJuly 12 - Olympic gold medallists Christine Ohuruogu and Amy Williams have launched the online search for the Olympic stars of the future with an aptitude for speed and power.

to victory in the bob skeleton at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, launched the UK Talent Team

Williams, who was a Team GB Ambassador at the 2010 Youth Olympics, added: "I started my sporting career

, canoeing, sprint cycling and weightlifting.It comes after the success a number of other UK Talent Team


Westfield Stratford City to be home to Team GB for London 2012

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Westfield Stratford in LondonJuly 12 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced today that the Team

GB House for the London 2012 Olympic Games will be located in a prime location here at Westfield Stratford

GB Chef de Mission for London 2012 and BOA chief executive, said: "Team GB House will be our operational

As well as providing facilities to directly support British athletes and coaches, Team GB House will

Another key function of Team GB House will be hosting the main operations centre that will act as the

fulcrum of Team GB operations, transport and logistics at Games time.The main operations centre will

We look forward to accommodating the Team GB athletes as well as their friends and family."


Bronze for Woodbridge and world record for Cooke in Olympic test event

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event in London by becoming the first British man to win a World Cup Final medal, while his 20-year-old team

Cooke, who trains with Woodbridge at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath

Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director, said: "It was a fantastic ending to the day.


Top players set to compete at the British Open Para Table Tennis Championships

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By Tom DegunJuly 9 - The world's finest Paralympic table tennis players are set to gather at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield this September for the British Open Para Table Tennis Championships 2011 (BOPTT), one of the most important events on the sporting calendar in the lead up to London 2012.

continental events in 2011 - will carry a higher rating.A squad of players from the Sheffield-based British team

profile of disabled table tennis and drum up interest in the lead up to London 2012, while giving the GB

Team a chance to play against other first-class players from around the world."


Mike Rowbottom: It's survival of the fittest for Britain's modern pentathletes

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They've been following in Paula Radcliffe's footsteps.The British team preparing for this weekend's World

verdict delivered by the man who has overseen more than a dozen years of medal-winning success as the GB

Greenwich Park - Jamie Cooke and Nick Weybridge go in the men's competition tomorrow, and the women's team

"The athletes who will in the end be in the Olympic team - they earned it.

We need to prepare for this as a team.


Williamson on perfecting her concentration for London 2012 and making Olympic history

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By Mike RowbottomNormally, the grounds of Lilleshall's high performance centre in Shropshire are tranquil. It was to this remote location, where ornamental gardens lie within gazing distance of what once served as the Duke of Sutherland's hunting lodge, that Sir Alf chose to bring his merry men as he prepared them to win the 1966 World Cup, anxious that they should not be within reach of any establishments likely to make them - even remotely - merry while in training.So the news that some of the few neighbours this sporting enclave enjoys have been complaining about noise comes as a...

competitions - in this case, their World Cup match in Turkey - and is being replayed at top volume during team

I think we all learned a lot from Delhi - particularly the younger members of the team.

"We need to make sure that we are all working well together as a team. That is the main objective.

Sometimes in a team, if two people are shooting well it can lift the other person.

If she is to reserve her place at London 2012, Williamson, like all the GB archers, needs to perform


Mike Rowbottom: Henley Royal Regatta - New course, but same age old traditions

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than in times of war, offers the chance of seeing some of the world's top rowers - including all the GB

It's just a tunnel of noise and quite amazing".It is an atmosphere that the Australian team have not

able to row here at Henley and then the world cup finals in Lucerne next weekend", said Ray Ebert, the team

paper which are fished out of the giant silver edifice that is the Grand Challenge Cup – something the GB


BBC appointed as host rights broadcaster for Glasgow 2014

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By Duncan MackayJune 30 - Glasgow 2014 has appointed the BBC as the domestic broadcast rights holder for the Commonwealth Games, it was announced today.

The added spice will be seeing the stars of Team GB in their own national colours in Glasgow, just two


MPs recognise boxing is a knockout success when it comes to combating social problems

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By Emily GoddardJune 28 - Key boxing figures, including former world champion Barry McGuigan and members of Britain's Olympic squad joined the Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson and other MPs to launch the re-formed All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Boxing at a special reception in Westminster.

The launch was also supported by the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA), which oversees the GB

Programme, and was also attended by two of the medal winners, Tom Stalker and Charlie Edwards, from the team

last week's European Amateur Boxing Championships in Turkey.Rob McCracken, Performance Director at GB

Boxing said: "We have a great set-up at GB Boxing and work with the very best amateur boxers, yet I

in the national associations that develop and nurture talent from a young age and provide us in the GB


Former England 2018 bid leader and BOA director joins online sports retailer in new role

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By Duncan MackayJune 28 - Andy Anson, the leader of England's disastrous bid to host the 2018 World Cup who recently became a non-executive director of the British Olympic Association (BOA), has been given a new role as chief executive of Kitbag, which claims to be·Europe's leading sports online retailer.

forward to bringing my experience from the worlds of sport and business and working with the great team

Barcelona.Last week, it opened a new £1 million CityStore at the City of Manchester Stadium.It also distributes Team

GB kit designed by Stella McCartney and manufactured by Adidas and which will be worn by Britain's athletes


Alan Hubbard: Boxing for The Big Society

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she is pretty nifty herself with her fists, donning the gloves and sparring with the captain of the GB

men's boxing team Tom Stalker, as well as anyone else who fancied a round or two with the blonde bomber

champion newly honoured with an MBE for his work in teaching boxing skills to wayward kids.Rob McCracken, Team


Former captain claims Scottish players "excited" by chance to play at London 2012

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By Duncan MackayJune 26 - Scotland's opposition to a Team GB containing footballers from all four Home

I'm all for it [Team GB] - it's a great idea," Weir, who with 69 appearances is Scotland's sixth-most

GB at London 2012 is a devastating blow to Scottish Football Association (SFA) chief executive Stewart

some of us went to play for Team GB."

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

close" claims BOA chief executiveJune 2011: Exclusive - Team GB at London 2012 would help England relations