According to Thierry Maudet, the body’s director-general, more than half of the French team in

What is more Great Britain will field a monster team of 500-plus in London - and will have home advantage

improve much on its astonishing 47-medal haul (including 19 golds) in the Chinese capital, I think Team

GB will improve a little, bursting through the 50-medal barrier for the first time in more than a century

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 22 - Sir Clive Woodward (pictured) still has a vital role at the British Olympic Association (BOA) in the build-up to London 2012, even if his coaching programme is scrapped at the end of the year, he was reassured today.

The scheme has been the pet project of Sir Clive, who coached England's rugby team to World Cup victory

efforts in Performance Services, Sport Engagement and Athlete Engagement as the BOA prepares to support Team

GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games," the statement said.

I want to be able to give back after the fantastic experience I had as part of Team GB at the Vancouver

GB’s future success so it will be awesome to be a part of that.

Zara and I were part of a sailing team racing for charity around the Isle of Wright last summer.

GB will unite the nation in excitement, pride and celebration.

GB’s athletes and ensuring we make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

By Tom Degun September 21 - The United States, Australia and Canada - the world's top three teams - sent an ominous message to the other nations looking for victory at the 2010 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships by recording decisive victories in their round-robin games on day one of the prestigious competition in Richmond.

bronze medalists used their trademark aggressive man-to-man defense to continually force the British team

"We felt that GB was one of the strongest teams here at the tournament, so for us to come out with

a win was very good for Team Canada.

"Japan is always a difficult team to face but the boys handled the occasion really well.

" Elsewhere, Argentina lost their first major international game in the team’s history

  By Mike Rowbottom September 21 - Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, Britain’s overall World Cup champions in the double sculls, will concentrate on that event at this year’s World Championships in New Zealand rather than doubling up in the quadruple sculls as they have so far this season, it was announced today.

A 61-strong British team has been named for the event which takes place from October 31 until 

And the line-up was accompanied by an instruction from team selectors for rowers to regard the Southern

  "We're the fastest boat the GB Rowing Team can field and we've moved on significantly

top-level sport, the crew have gelled well and know that they are more consistent than any other previous GB

By Tom Degun September 21 - Beijing 2008 Paralympic gold medallist Helene Raynsford (pictured) has come out of her illness-induced retirement and has been named in Britain's squad for next month's World Rowing Championships in New Zealand.

"I consider myself very lucky that GB Rowing realised something wasn’t right with me and started testing

Paralympic champion Tom Aggar, who has astonishingly never been beaten, has also been named in the team

After 16 weeks of rehabilitation I am back training, at last, with my GB team mates in Lilleshall.

It is a really exciting time for the GB team with section process over for the World Championships.

I have every confidence that team GB will have an extremely successful World Championship and get through

four hours focused on my strength and recovery and in the afternoon I worked alongside the rest of the GB

This is a huge achievement for Sam and GB, he is definitely someone to keep an eye on for the future

September 20 - The financial challenges facing British sport will not lead to a scaling down of the British team

" Hunt indicated that the size of the team he had in mind was "circa 530 athletes, circa

900 accredited team members, circa 1,500 people in total that will support the team when you add in

September 2010: BOA has raised its game to make difference to Olympic sport March 2010: British team

By David Owen September 17 - Employee costs, excluding so-called "restructuring payments" climbed nine per cent at the British Olympic Association (BOA) last year, as the body made a third straight operating loss.

seize the opportunity, which is a once-in-a-generation opportunity, be that in terms of supporting Team

GB pre- and at the Games, but also making sure that we are in the best possible position financially

By David Owen I was starting to see it as one of life’s, or at least accountancy’s, great mysteries. Why should a deal between two parties as ineffably British as the British Olympic Association (BOA) and LOCOG, the London 2012 Organising Committee, be denominated in US dollars? For days on end, nobody could furnish me with a convincing answer. But when it came, the explanation afforded a small but revealing insight into the intricacies of British sport’s administrative landscape.

"We need to gear up the commercial team to make sure we maximise the opportunity for the post-2012

into this organisation is exactly to make sure, coming out of these Games, not only have we given our team

"You will have seen a lot of work we have done on repositioning the Team GB brand.

" A further source of funding for the BOA is the Team 2012 initiative launched in an effort to

944,271 ($1.4 million) and management fee income of £50,000 ($78,500) was receivable from Team

By David Owen in London September 16 - Sir Clive Woodward’s Olympic Coaching Programme faces a critical week, with findings of a Deloitte report due to be presented to the British Olympic Association (BOA) board next Wednesday (September 22).

must also be a strong chance that Sir Clive - who acted as Deputy Chef de Mission for performance for Team

GB at this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver - will play a leading role in the team assembled

Hunt told insidethegames that "the announcement of [the] team leadership element of our delegation is

By Mike Rowbottom September 9 - Medway Park, which successfully staged a Modern Pentathlon World Cup in April, has earned the right to host next year’s European Championships.

Pentathlon GB chief executive Peter Hart added: "We are delighted to be bringing the European Championships

" Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB’s Performance Director, said: "Pentathlon GB have achieved

" Final selections for the British team for the London 2012 Olympic Games will be made by the

The competition finishes on Monday, August 1 with the team relays.

By Mike Rowbottom September 2 - Britain will have three women in Saturday’s (September 4) Modern Pentathlon World Championships final in China after Heather Fell, Samantha Murray and Freyja Prentice all qualified from today’s semi-finals.

final, but Fell, Murray and Prentice are Britain’s three nominated athletes to score for the team

competition, so the fact all three have gone through to  will aid Britain’s team prospects

Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director, said: "We were hoping to have all four in the final

"We’re in good shape for the final and for the team competition, although we know it will

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 28 - Britain's basketball team

The men's team clinched their second consecutive qualification for the European Championships when

they are going to move forward after the Olympics [so] that the funding won't stop, that the whole GB

team won't disappear.

Chris Finch (pictured), the coach of the men's team, believes Britain have done enough to ensure their

"No one outside the GB organisation expected us to be here, but I said to the guys that we had to

By Tom Degun in Singapore August 27 - Team GB Chef de Mission Jan Paterson today expressed her delight

Paterson said: "Team GB’s athletes have performed with passion, dedication and great quality

"Singapore has put on an outstanding inaugural Youth Olympic Games and Team GB’s 39 young

" As well as competing in Singapore, every member of Team GB participated in the Culture and