By Mike Rowbottom April 24 - Britain’s senior men’s gymnastics team won its first ever

Keatings and Olympic pommel bronze medallist Louis Smith brought all their experience to bear for a team

"I have to pay tribute to several people including Andre Popov, our other team coach.

quot;We did have some mistakes today but we just had to put them behind us, we weren’t the only team

"First team and first and second in all-around is just an awesome achievement for GB.

By Tom Degun April 22 - Channel 4 has fired the starting gun on their Paralympic coverage as they have commissioned two new programmes to kick-start their pre-Games broadcast coverage of London 2012, they announced today.

up to the London Paralympic Games 2012 and will introduce the public to members of the British team

Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, or from a challenge such as Rick learning Wheelchair Rugby with the GB

The pair will be backed by a team of roving reporters including UK 400 metres record holder Iwan

athletes and sports well in advance of the Games in 2012 in order that the whole nation gets behind the team

GB.

on the podium for the first time as a team at a major championship.

; putting my position within the team at risk.

  At the British Team Championships "Team Huntingdon" were again favourites to defend

 The selected gymnasts for Team GB are training really hard to perform the best they can and everyone

By Tom Degun April 16 - Inspirational United States Paralympian Angela Madsen (pictured) is set to compete in the legendary Anglo American Boat Race at the age of 49. 

takes place in June this year and Madison is planning to take on the key role of navigator for her team

She is a seven-time adaptive rowing national team member and is founder of the California Adaptive Rowing

Boat Race, though, represents one of Madsen's most difficult challenges and she as well as her SeaGals team

This first challenge in its new format is called GB Row 2010.

attempt to beat the current world record of 26 days 21 hours and 14 minutes which was set by an Army team

GB women’s hockey chose a series of matches against the Olympic silver medalists, China, to launch

But having fielded a young, partially experimental, GB team at Bisham Abbey against the Chinese they

Danny Kerry, the GB women’s coach, was quietly impressed by his team’s ability to dominate

The second Test also marked the 50th cap of defender Crista Cullen, who was returning to the team after

 Although lowest ranked of all the team in the group which includes Australia and Ireland, Walker

2012 London Olympics at the age of 40 - and puts him on a par as a rower with himself and his former team-mate

national trials last weekend he finished eighth, which puts him right on the borderline of being on the team

"Greg’s challenge, as he stated it, was that he would like to be on the team this year, in

" Further testing will take place before the GB squad is announced on May 18.

"Will it be tough getting on the team? "Yes.

  "But Greg Searle fit and strong is going to be a benefit to anybody’s team.

Froch has been a regular visitor to Sheffield since his trainer, Rob McCracken, took over as the GB Performance

including four gold, in the Commonwealth Federation Championships in Delhi (achieved without several of GB

The golds were won by flyweight Khalid Yafai, one of the two remaining members of the Beijing team, and

This was the first time GB had sent a mixed team to an overseas tournament – and mixing it seems

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year April 14 - Loughborough University will be the headquarters for Britain's pre-Games preparations for the London 2012 Olympics after the original plans to use Aldershot Army Barracks were shelved, it was announced today.

"Participating in the Team GB headquarters camp will give our athletes the unique experience of

Hunt said: "Our number one priority is to ensure that Team GB athletes have the best possible preparation

"We are delighted that Loughborough University will partner the BOA as Team GB’s preparation

GB’s preparation camp.

GB’s sports.

By Tom Degun April 13 - British Boxing’s men and women are returning from a successful tournament in Ankara, Turkey, where they picked up four medals and two golds, which were won by flyweight Khalid Yafai (pictured) and middleweight Savannah Marshall.

prestigious seven-day Prime Ministry Tournament, which was the first ever overseas tournament for the mixed GB

Boxing team, ended with featherweight Iain Weaver and flyweight Lucy O’Connor adding a silver

Marshall, 18, was perhaps the team’s stand-out performer as the fighter from Hartlepool saw

GB Boxing’s Performance Director Rob McCracken was delighted with the team’s performance

and claimed that the tournament was an excellent learning experience for the mixed team.

Playing volleyball on Copacabana Beach may sound like a fantasy occupation but for the GB men and women

season in Brasilia, the first of 16 events in 13 countries which will demonstrate the progress of the GB

stint on the beaches of Rio will be followed by the competition proper next week, and the women’s team

The men’s team, Gregg Weaver and Robin Miedzybrodzki, are cementing a partnership that came together

to see how we compare with the rest of the world at this early stage," said Matt Grinlaubs, the GB

April 11 - France's Amelie Caze (pictured) pipped Lithuania's Donata Rimsaite and Britain's Mhairi Spence to claim victory today in the Medway modern pentathlon World Cup.

  It was a good day all round for the British team with 20-year-old Katy Burke finishing

"   Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB’s performance director, said: "Mhairi’s third

April 11 - Helene Raynsford (pictured), rowing's first ever Paralympic champion when she won the gold medal in the women's arms only sculls at Beijing in 2008, has had to give up on her dream of competing at London 2012 after retiring from the sport because of a cardiac problem.

"As I became increasingly unwell after Beijing and following diagnosis last year, the support team

from the GB Rowing team that has been integral to my success as an athlete worked hard to stabilise

" Following Raynsford’s retirement, GB Rowing need reinforcements in the women’s

arms-only single scull as well as the mixed adaptive double scull, something the team’s high performance

stadium that, six months ago, was scarcely more than a building site, Fell stood on the track with her GB

of the running for 16 months, and she was reluctantly released by the man who is still the British team

Last season was less spectacular, although she helped earn Britain team silver at the World Championships

The British women’s team currently has at least seven world class performers to call upon.

Performance Director for Disability Football Jeff Davis has backed the British football seven-a-side team

sport for athletes with cerebral palsy, continuing to grow in Britain, Davis believes the British team

Davis said: "The BT Paralympic World Cup is a wonderful opportunity for the GB players to test themselves

"If the team is to challenge on a world stage, it is of paramount importance that we use competitions

such as this to try new players as we strive to develop a podium winning team.

" Britain's seven-a-side team captain and Manchester native Jordan Raynes said: "The BT

By Mike Rowbottom at Medway Park April 7 - A modern pentathlon field of Olympic class will take part in the third World Cup event of the season at Medway Park, in Gillingham, starting tomorrow and concluding on Sunday (April 11). 

And for Britain’s team manager Dominic Mahony, Medway Park is already a winner before the

"The last time I came here was in October, when this place was a building site," said the team

  Mhairi Spence and Katy Livingston - who won team silver along with Fell at last year&rsquo

"I'm really looking forward to it," said Myatt, a member of Pentathlon GB’s World Class