In fact if you added up all of the days I haven’t been with the national team or with

a club team in the last four or five years, I’m not sure you’d even be able to mark off

pound;500 a monthly wage packet I receive when I’m with the Great Britain national volleyball team

It is the fate of the GB volleyball team, at this time, to be a force relatively unknown.

  Regards,   Andrew Pink GB Men’s Volleyball    P.S.

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearFebruary 8 - Simon Timson (pictured) head of the England Development Programme at the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), will offer a different perspectiveto Britain's preparations for the London Olympics after being announced as a member of the new Mission 2012 Panel.

Olympic sport," said Harland, who last October joined the BOA as one of its new sport engagement team

"I hope my business experience, experience of leading the restructuring and development of GB Boxing

Performance Director of the British Paralympic Association, and Craig Hunter, the Deputy Chef de Mission of Team

GB at London 2012.The new Panel's first meeting will take place early next month and will provide important

February 6 - The management team that will guide Britain's men's and women's under-20 basketball squads

experience well to prepare this year's squad for what will be a daunting but exciting challenge for GB

The GB under-20 men will be heading to Sarajevo to compete in Division B of the Youth Championships.Leading

of six wins and two losses.In an initiative geared to build towards the 2016 Olympics - called T16 - GB

manager Mark Lloyd.A new PA coach is yet to be appointed but will join the team for the summer.Cann

GB in the future as a senior player and potentially in 2016."

British Basketball Performance Director Chris Spice is deighted at the news that the men's basketball team

Serbia.The event will be a male only competition with the women missing out but Spice revealed the GB

men's team, which includes Chicago Bulls superstar Luol Deng, is looking to fully capitalise on the

I have never been convinced that sport and shrinks necessarily make a winning team.

This stems from a  time I covered the Winter Olympics in Albertville back in 1992 when GB driver

In the UK the GB canoe kayak team have embarked on a programme, as have the women's diving team.

By Tom DegunFebruary 3 - Dutch brewer Heineken have seen off London's only remaining traditional family brewer Fuller's Brewery to become the Official Lager Supplier of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in a tier three sponsorship deal announced today.

also enjoy sponsorship and venue supply rights associated with the British Olympic Association (BOA), Team

GB, the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and the Paralympics GB team.Alexis Nasard, the chief commercial

February 2 - British powerlifters rose to the challenge at the IPC Powerlifting event in Cardiff, where 30 athletes from countries across the world were in action at the Sport Wales National.

Second spot went to GB team-mate Zoe Newson who was winner of the 40kg category and only three points

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 2 - England Athletics, the official representative body for all English athletics clubs, has attacked the endorsement of Tottenham Hotspur's bid for the Olympic Stadium by the Association of British Athletics Clubs (ABAC), claiming the body has "no legitimacy".

legacy myth is to save face over the wholly unrealistic promises made in Singapore by the Olympic bid team

Additionally the entire current GB team, led by captain Jessica Ennis, have given their backing to West

February 1 - Tributes have been paid to Paralympic rower Karen Cromie, who has been buried after her tragic death last Friday (January 28).

are times when nothing helps," he said.Cromie had been a member of the British wheelchair basketball team

She was a key team member in the squad vying to become the first ever Irish rowing team to compete at

achievements both in wheelchair basketball and adaptive rowing and because she had competed for both GB

January 30 - Karen Cromie, a rower who represented Britain at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, has died after falling from a flyover onto a dual carriageway.

basketball and was a member of the British women's wheelchair team.She·came into rowing through the GB

Rowing's talent identification scheme after an introduction to the sport through·Helene Raynsford, another GB

at the news of the death of someone so young who had been an energetic and successful member of the team

and we extend our condolences to her family at this sad time", said David Tanner, GB Rowing Team

A year on, they're still at the top of their game.Despite the absence of an ice track in the UK, Team

GB sliders have secured medals at the last three Olympics.

Andy Hunt is the chief executive of the British Olympic Association and Team GB Chef de Mission for London

January 28 - A sell-out crowd will watch the British women's water polo team compete in their first European

Captain Fran Leighton insists the team are taking nothing for granted ahead of the clash with Israel

think the first quarter will be really interesting," said Leighton, who is nearing a return to first team

visit of Israel will be their first international since June 2010.And Leighton insists the British team

would see the Brits progress through to the 2012 finals in Eindhoven.Related storiesNovember 2010: GB

by appointment of TASS supported assistant coachNovember 2010: Crunch weekend in Budapest for GB

January 27 - Ashes hero Alastair Cook (pictured) and world triple jump champion Phillips Iduwo have urged people to register their interest for Olympics tickets as London celebrates 18 months until they start.

Having the stands packed full of British fans will hopefully inspire Team GB."

In the summer of 2009 McMenemy presided over the Special Olympics GB Summer Games, the biggest multi-sports

team event to be held in the UK before 2012.

Parsimony is one thing, pettiness another.Although he will only be watching on TV, McMenemy wishes the team

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 26 - The "young and ambitious" British taekwondo team is looking for key sponsors

preparation, management and performance, is seeking a title partner and supporting partners for the team

this country and a really attractive opportunity for partners keen to engage with a successful British team

Our own team is young and ambitious and it is no surprise that Britain is emerging as genuine medal contenders

Partners will have access to British team athletes for personal appearances and demonstrations, as well

as rights to athlete and team imagery.As well as the British team, partners will have rights ownership