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Injuries blow to GB weightlifters' European Junior Championships hopes

  • Weightlifting

November 27 - Three British weightlifters have had to pull out of this weekend's European Junior and Under-23 Championships in Cyprus because of injury.

medallist Zoe Smith, Jack Oliver and Ben Watson will be disappointed about not competing in Limassol as the team

Lifting's (BWL) performance manager Fiona Lothian said: "Although it is disappointing that three of the team


GB taekwondo squad aim to pass French test

  • Taekwondo

November 26 - Britain's taekwondo stars head for Paris this weekend with a close to full-strength squad for the French Open.

missing from the line-up which will feature a combination of Academy and Talent athletes.Spearheading the team

Manchester.World number one Cook, returning to competitive action after a short break, leads a strong male team

-68kg category features Martin Stamper and Michael Harvey.In the female competition Walkden heads a team

Jade Jones who will be looking to bounce back from a quarter final exit in Manchester.Completing the team


Gatwick aims to be "airport of choice" for London 2012 Olympics

  • London 2012

November 25 - Gatwick has launched a bid to make it the airport of choice for Olympic athletes, their officials and support personnel during the London 2012 Games.

National Olympic Committees (NOC) and teams will be met and greeted at the air bridge by an expert team

support with baggage and transfers to final destination.Gatwick has a dedicated and experienced PR team

discussing the possibility of having remote check-in.Again, passengers will have the support of an expert team

G20 Summit and leading sports teams, including Chelsea FC, New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins and the GB

team on its return from the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.


Alan Hubbard: Nigel Walker is breaking down the colour barrier

  • Inside the Blogs

sometime there has been a high proportion of black players, sometimes as many as four or five or more in a team

  As a track and field athlete he won his first international at 19, represented GB in the 1984

Olympics but after failing to make the team for the 1992 Games he switched to rugby, which he had played


GB rowing says fond farewell to double Olympic champion Holmes

  • Rowing

November 24 - Senior figures in British rowing have said a fond farewell to double Olympic champion Andy Holmes, who died suddenly last month of suspected Weil's disease.

One thing that was clear was the impact that Andy had, albeit at a distance, on the current British team


GB beats off France to host blind judo championships

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Mike RowbottomNovember 23 - Britain has beaten off a strong rival bid from France to win the right to host the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) Judo European Championships next year – the most prestigious visually impaired event yet to be held by the British Judo Association.

It is a fantastic opportunity for the BJA Events Team to host a new event for 2011 and we are currently

In 2009, the British team picked up its best results at the Europeans ever, winning four medals.The British


Archery towering tall after signing major sponsorship deal

  • Sponsor News

from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi turned out in force at the Tower of London today as Archery GB

The mutual society, founded in 1834, will bolster funding of the an increasingly successful team as

have done in recent years, and how much our profile has been raised in the media," Naomi Folkard, a team

Archery GB teams contain some of the UK's most successful athletes who won 49 international medals in

branches and getting people to have a go," she said.Sara Symington, performance director at Archery GB

The team doesn't get picked until April 2012."


GB water polo women strengthened by appointment of TASS supported assistant coach

  • Aquatics

November 22 - A strength and conditioning assistant coach is now boosting the GB senior women's water

polo team thanks to funding from the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS).

at St Marys University College, Twickenham.Joanna Wray, water polo World Class Programme manager and Team

GB team leader for London 2012, said: "Water polo's collaboration with TASS has been a great asset to

will support university swimmers and TASS athletes as well as underpin the work of the World Class Team


Team GBR launches four-event sponsorship package

  • Sponsor News

Sponsors can now back four different equestrian teams in one unique package thanks to an initiative by Team

benefits designed to support most brand, business, employee and community needs.These include the 'Team

opportunities, 'on and off line' communication and event marketing programmes that can be leveraged.The Team

GBR opportunity bookends the 2012 Olympic Games and covers the biggest team events in the sport including

Britain's fourth most successful sport behind sailing, cycling and rowing, while in Paralympic dressage, Team

GB is the undisputed world number one.At the recent Alltech FEI 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky


McKenzie lifts European under-23 title

  • Judo

By Mike RowbottomNovember 20 - Ashley McKenzie has become Britain's second under-23 European champion, following in the footsteps of Craig Fallon, who earned the title in 2004, and Gemma Howell has replicated her result of 2008 in winning bronze.

year.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesNovember 2010: GB

judo announces team for under 23 European ChampionshipsNovember 2010: Judo delight as GB scoops 10-medal


Greece is the word as GB water polo men fight for European qualification

  • Aquatics

November 20 - Britain's men's water polo team faces a tough weekend as it battles to qualify for European

the 2005 World Championship bronze medallists.Team captain Craig Figes will be looking to lead his team

Georgia in Tbilisi last month left the British men with a battle to finish in the top two of the three-team

Next July's home tie against the Georgians may well prove pivotal but the British team know any success

favourites Greece will swing the odds in their favour.Related storiesOctober 2010: Turning pro boosts GB


New performance director to give Goalball GB the Edge

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Tom DegunNovember 19 - Goalball GB have announced that Alan Edge will be their new performance director

National Governing Body for goalball in the summer we have been very keen to strengthen the performance team

2010: Goalball UK gives performance director new role after resignationJuly 2010: British goalball team


Denise Johns: Things can get heated on and off court, but we all want the same thing – to win

  • Inside the Blogs

I am on the arduous journey to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics as a GB beach volleyball player.I

This time, as London is hosting the Games, one British team will automatically qualify and an opportunity

days off before we flew back to Brisbane for a five week block of off-season training with the other GB

team of Mullin-Dampney.People always ask us : "How is it to always train with the team you're in direct

Denise Johns is a GB beach volleyball star who was recently voted the Most Inspirational Women's Player


Elite athletes spend 10,000 hours training for London 2012

  • London 2012

November 18 - The extraordinary dedication and hard work by athletes hoping to compete in the London 2012 Olympics has been revealed in new research by The National Lottery.

more than 1,860 miles a year - further than the distance from Beijing to London over four years.The GB

Wheelchair Basketball team on average goes through 100 tyres a year for its specially designed wheelchairsPeter


Alan Hubbard: A-force farce insult to British London 2012 hopefuls

  • Inside the Blogs

No, not the inaugural GB Championships in Liverpool, though I rather wish I had because by all accounts

we can be certain is that Froch, a world amateur championships bronze medalist in 2001 (when England team-mate

He is the consumate pro, and some of his professionalism has rubbed off on Britain's current GB squad

useful tips and giving them great encouragement.As I said, in retrospect I am sorry to have missed the GB

The competition pitted the best amateurs from England, Scotland and Wales against GB Boxing's first choice