AUGUST 21 - IAIN PERCY and Andrew Simpson struck gold in the Star class today as the Olympic sailing regatta ended in Qingdao with Britain finishing top overall following their best performance for more than a century.

 The team finished with four gold medals, a silver and a bronze.  

It also means that by almost whatever measure you use that this is the most successful British team ever

Before the Games started, the Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said that he expected the team to meet

GB.  

Team Manager Stephen Park was a happy man with the performance.  

 JUNE 4 - HEAT and humidity, rather than pollution, is the biggest challenge Britain's athletes will face at this year's Olympics in Beijing, a new report published today warned.

leading experts in the management of thermal stress and the effects of travel and jet lag to ensure Team

UK's leading experts in managing thermal impact, hydration and pollution, whilst also liaising with Team

GB suppliers such as adidas on clothing issues and Coca-Cola on hydration.  

The project has been a true team effort with the home country institutes of sport playing a key role

GB has exclusive usage of world class training facilities, many of which were constructed for the East

 BRITISH BOXING could turn to Ireland's performance director for London 2012 but all sports will be hoping that doubts over a missing £100 million in funding are soon resolved, as DAVID OWEN reports

Name in the frame  One name I have already heard mentioned is that of Jim Walsh, the Irish boxing team

wherewithal to exploit their system to the max and see just how many medals a fully proficient British team

Brown, who is now of course Prime Minister, this week acknowledged the impact of Team GB’s achievements

 BRITISH BOXING could turn to Ireland's performance director for London 2012 but all sports will be hoping that doubts over a missing £100 million in funding are soon resolved, as DAVID OWEN reports

Name in the frame  One name I have already heard mentioned is that of Jim Walsh, the Irish boxing team

wherewithal to exploit their system to the max and see just how many medals a fully proficient British team

Brown, who is now of course Prime Minister, this week acknowledged the impact of Team GB’s achievements

have been warned that they face the threat of being banned from football if they join a united British team

Hennessey, is considered the player most likely from Wales to be included in a British football team

We have taken a decision to have nothing to do with a GB United side and that remains the case."

I can understand, on the back of the huge GB success in Beijing, the banging of the drums, the call for

a GB soccer team for an Olympics hosted in London."

As such, they could not play in a GB team."

 AUGUST 21 - BRITAIN will set aside its Olympic rivalry with Australia for a day at least tomorrow when instead the focus will be on Ireland as the two country's go head-to-head in two semi-finals of the boxing tournament.

"Contributing to the amazing Team GB medal tally is the proudest moment of my life."  

Ravaged by rumours of discontent over their elite programme, the Irish team had returned from the World

are all guaranteed places on the podium in Beijing, ending an eight-year drought for the entire Irish team

Ireland boxing team manager Jim Walsh admits the Irish fighters have had to overcome financial hardship

"We've a good team, you know we're not a bad little country for fighting.  

 AUGUST 21 - BRITAIN will set aside its Olympic rivalry with Australia for a day at least tomorrow when instead the focus will be on Ireland as the two country's go head-to-head in two semi-finals of the boxing tournament.

"Contributing to the amazing Team GB medal tally is the proudest moment of my life."  

Ravaged by rumours of discontent over their elite programme, the Irish team had returned from the World

are all guaranteed places on the podium in Beijing, ending an eight-year drought for the entire Irish team

Ireland boxing team manager Jim Walsh admits the Irish fighters have had to overcome financial hardship

"We've a good team, you know we're not a bad little country for fighting.  

August 21 - British Airways are to paint the nose of the aeroplane bringing home the country's Olympic team

Ainslie, who between them won six golds.Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, said: "Team

GB has led the opposition home in event after event at this golden Olympics."

It is right that a gold nose cone should adorn the aircraft that brings the team home to the UK."

 JULY 19 - BRITAIN'S team for the Olympics in Beijing next month was today confirmed at 313 after Andy

Woosnam uniquely captained England at football and Britain's Davis Cup team.  

Simon Clegg, the Chef de Mission for Britain's team for Beijing, said: "I am delighted to welcome Andy

and Jamie in to Team GB for their first Olympic Games.  

"Team GB has enjoyed success in the tennis competition in the past, and with Andy and Jamie we have one

Team GB but slightly below the record of 320 that competed in Sydney in 2000.

  ANDREW HUNT, the head of a major security firm, has been appointed the new chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), it was announced today.

  Hunt, 44, succeeds Simon Clegg who has moved to become Chef de Mission for Team GB in the run-up

  AUGUST 22 - DAVID BECKHAM (pictured) helped launch the 2012 Olympics by kicking a ball into a crowd during London's eight-minute segment at the closing ceremony at the Bird's Nest in Beijing tonight.

chairman, said: "This is a moment we have waited for since we won the bid and the entire London 2012 team

"What we have witnessed in Beijing is a truly spectacular Olympic Games and in terms of Team GB, a fantastically

 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Londoners have turned out for the victory parade through the capital of the British teams that performed so spectacularly at the Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing.

Team GB won 19 golds at the Beijing Olympics to finish fourth in the medal table with a haul of 47 medals

Beijing, said: "This is a fantastic and historic day bringing together the most successful Olympic team

"The success of the team and the reaction of the British public this summer will be multiplied many times

"There is so much support for the team and we did really well.  

 JULY 19 - BRITISH sailor Paul Goodison (pictured) ensured the perfect send-off to the Olympics, by capturing the Laser European Championship title in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, today.

concurrently in Nieuwpoort, Andrea Brewster finished as the highest place British sailor in eighth place, with Team

GB Olympic representative Penny Clark in 15th

  A GROUP of Scotland-linked MPs have backed the idea of a united British football team competing

The football governing bodies of Scotland and Wales are all opposed to a British team, fearing it would

But the motion comes after assurances from world governing body FIFA that Team GB would not jeopardise

It reads: "This House welcomes the assurances given by Fifa that a 2012 Olympics UK football team would

  A GROUP of Scotland-linked MPs have backed the idea of a united British football team competing

The football governing bodies of Scotland and Wales are all opposed to a British team, fearing it would

But the motion comes after assurances from world governing body FIFA that Team GB would not jeopardise

It reads: "This House welcomes the assurances given by Fifa that a 2012 Olympics UK football team would