By Alan HubbardDecember 8 - Terry Edwards (pictured), the head coach controversially axed after Britain's most successful boxing Olympics in Beijing, is to make a comeback in a key role for London 2012.

Olympics in Beijing, where Britain won a gold and two bronze, he was told by the newly-constituted GB

I am thrilled to be involved in my fourth Olympics and honoured to be part of the team delivering the

By Mike RowbottomDecember 7 - Britain's male and female indoor volleyball teams learned today they will definitely be competing at the London 2012 Games.

But he added: "We are really hoping that UK Sport will consider supporting the women's team as they seek

Ben Pipes, captain of the GB men's volleyball team, who is currently playing professional club volleyball

We will demonstrate that GB can compete with more than just a credible performance."

Equally however, we understand that the British public expects every athlete who competes for Team GB

GB are capable of delivering a credible performance in London 2012, and will utilise the unique platform

December 7 - A partnership between British Cycling and one of the world's leading bike manufacturers is proving a huge success for the sport.

mountain bikes utilised in schools it has been claimed.The award-winning Prince is the workhorse of the GB

Cycling Team and helped Nicole Cooke clinch fourth place in the Road World Championships in Australia.A

host of GB riders used the iconic Dogma during the 2010 road racing season and the Graal played its

20,000 young people across Britain.Katie Colclough, Laura Trott and Wendy Houvenaghel won gold in the team

December 5 - Britain women's handball team's dream of reaching the 2011 World Championships is over despite a valiant performance against Poland.

They finished third in the five-team qualifying group after going down 32-17 to the hosts, who were

physically much stronger.Despite victories over pre-tournament favourites Slovakia, as well as Cyprus, GB

would have taken them through.But despite some good periods of play, the hosts were just too strong for GB

storiesDecember 2010: Fudge's last-second winner brings Slovakians to a sticky endDecember 2010: GB

handball team couldn't Asker for more

December 4 - The names of the 13 Podium, eight Academy and three Talent athletes who will make up the GB

Para-Cycling Team in 2011 have been announced by British Cycling.

tailored our performance programme towards London 2012," said Gareth Sheppard, performance manager for the GB

Para-Cycling team."

December 4 - Grants of £1,000 ($1,600) have been given to four British Olympic hopefuls to help them train and prepare for the London 2012 Games.

at the British Olympic Association (BOA) headquarters in London this week where chief executive and Team

GB Chef de Mission Andy Hunt and BOA director of sport SIr Clive Woodward advised them how to make the

2004 Athens modern pentathlon bronze medallist, and Bernie Cotton, who played for Britain's hockey team

The individual Athlete Scholarship awards are in addition to the Olympic Solidarity Team Support Grant

awarded to the Britain men's handball team to support their entry into the 2012 European Championships

By Tom DegunDecember 3 - Andy Hunt, chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), has expressed his disappointment at England failing to secure the 2018 World Cup.

The bid team delivered an outstanding bid that was technically excellent, had a compelling global legacy

Of equal importance, the England 2018 Bid Team demonstrated the highest standards of professionalism

Cavendish (cycling).There can be no doubt Amy Williams inspired the nation back in February when she became Team

Olympic and Paralympic sport, demonstrating the wealth of exciting potential waiting in the wings for Team

GB and ParalympicsGB in years to come.I was particularly pleased that three members of Team GB's successful

Olympic sport in particular.Andy Hunt is the chief executive of the British Olympic Association and Team

GB Chef de Mission for London 2012

December 2 - Great Britain women's handball team gave their World Championship campaign a big boost with

time.Seven goals from Kelsi Fairbrother (pictured) underpinned Great Britain's victory, although the team

Related storiesDecember 2010: GB handball team couldn't Asker for more

December 2 - Asker Handball Club stars Nina Heglund (pictured) and Britt Goodwin pulled out all the stops with five goals apiece in Great Britain's opening World Championship qualification game against Austria in Poland.

Austria were a lot better this time than last time we played them," said GB head coach Jesper Holmris

Nina had one of her best games so far for GB with five goals from seven shots, so it's not all bad."

December 1 - A sportsman left in a wheelchair after suffering a fall has told how taking up target shooting "changed my life".

international competitions, including the World Championships in Croatia in July and the inaugural GB

bronze medal he won in the P1 10m air pistol SH1 at the Alicante Cup in September 2009, along with GB

team mates Chris Summerscales and Adrian Bunclark.

Last month's inaugural GB Amateur Boxing Championships at the Echo Arena in Liverpool saw a great display

Not only were they boxing for themselves and their place on the GB team but they were boxing for every

single one of us.By all of us, I mean all of the female boxers who have been on a team going to international

Having made it through to the final GB selections, she had first hand insight into what these girls were

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearNovember 29 - Gareth Bale has urged Wales to let him represent Britain at the London 2012 Olympics even though they have warned that any player who takes parts in the Games risks being suspended from international football.

play in a major tournament," he told the Daily Mirror in an interview published today.The British team

tipped to be coached by Harry Redknapp, Bale's manager at Tottenham.But it is set to be an English-only team

because Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are refusing to back a British team for fear it will affect

I would love to play in the Olympics, especially as it would be a part of a Great Britain team."

That is important and I wouldn't want that to change but if there's a chance for me to play in a GB team

which I was lucky enough to be a part of.I was out there commentating for the BBC and with the diving team

Games but everything I saw was of a high enough standard and there were no complaints from the diving team

four shoulder surgeries, a slipped disc in my back and a hernia, among other injuries, the medical team

20 years in elite sport and explore with the audience the parallels between sport and business.For Team

GB athletes, London 2012 will be a dream come true – the best of the best competing on home soil in

November 28 - Bianca Walkden struck gold in Paris as Great Britain's taekwondo team grabbed a four-medal

international circuit which replicates the weight categories of the Olympic Games, providing the British team

Sansum collected his first senior medal and, in doing so, underlined the success of the GB Talent programme.Sansum

delighted by his run.He said: "It's a big achievement to get a medal after only around six months with the team

Related storiesNovember 2010: GB taekwondo squad aim to pass French test