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Scottish manager adds voice to Team GB opposition

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manager Alex McLeish (pictured) has today joined the opposition to the proposal for a united British team

"Now I feel that if there was to be a team I don't think that it would be a team strong enough to win


Wales threaten ban for players who compete in 2012

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  NOVEMBER 4 - THE Football Association of Wales (FAW) have warned that they will ban its players from competing for Britain in the 2012 Olympics.

cave into political pressure from the British Olympic Association to co-operate in Britain entering a team

their independence for tournaments like the World Cup and European Championships if they are agree to a Team

GB for London.  

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/footballnation/football-in-wales/2007/11/04/players-will-be-banned-from-gb-side



Petition set up to oppose Team GB football team

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up on the Number 10 Downing Street website objecting to the formation of a united British football team

Ferguson, reads: "We the undersigned call on our government to oppose the fielding of a 'British' football team


Petition set up to oppose Team GB football team

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up on the Number 10 Downing Street website objecting to the formation of a united British football team

Ferguson, reads: "We the undersigned call on our government to oppose the fielding of a 'British' football team


Irish fans reject Team GB proposal

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Official Northern Ireland Supporters Clubs (NISC) today voiced its opposition to a UK Olympic football team

said: " We welcome confirmation that the IFA has decided to withhold its support for a UK football team

"The Amalgamation of Official NISCs has expressed some reservation about the concept of a UK team and

have the right to compete as separate entities in the World Cup and European Championships, then a 'Team


Northern Ireland footballer supports Team GB concept

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IRELAND'S Steve Davis (pictured) has thrown his support behind the idea of a united British football team

Belfast Telegraph today, he said: "I see there's been a lot of talk about a possible Great Britain team

joins Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon and former Scottish manager Walter Smith in supporting a British team


Northern Ireland footballer supports Team GB concept

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IRELAND'S Steve Davis (pictured) has thrown his support behind the idea of a united British football team

Belfast Telegraph today, he said: "I see there's been a lot of talk about a possible Great Britain team

joins Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon and former Scottish manager Walter Smith in supporting a British team


FIFA veteran in warning over Team GB

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  HOPES of a British football team at the London 2012 Olympics have been dealt a major blow after heavy

The Scotsman said: "We should not take the chance of joining a British team.

A lawyer, Will added: "We should not take the chance of joining a British team.  

British Olympic chiefs may now have to examine whether they can field a team of English players as a


Confusion over Irish stance on 2012

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NORTHERN IRELAND have today joined Scotland and Wales in opposing the idea of Great Britain fielding a team

Association (BOA) were yesterday encouraged by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to field a team

, the Irish Football Association had been careful not to rule out Northern Ireland involvement in a GB

team but current IFA supremo Raymond Kennedy told BBC Sport he would be supporting the SFA and Welsh

Olympic football events taking place up and down the country as there will be and we didn't have a GB

team participating in it."  


NEW SERIES: The Big Story

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OCTOBER 4 - INSIDETHEGAMES, the leading place for news on the London Olympics, today launches a new series of interviews with key figures who will help shape the 2012 Games. The series starts with an interview with ANDREA CONGREAVES by STEVEN DOWNES.

curtain down on her international career last week having helped Britain’s revitalised women’s basketball team

Congreaves is the player-coach at Coca-Cola Rhondda Rebels, the only fully professional women’s team

“At the moment, we still have a lot of the players in the GB squad who have to take time off work just

When I first started playing for England and GB, we might have a couple of weekend get-togethers and

Congreaves has been a talismanic figure with the GB women’s team in its summer series of Eurobasket games


BA tipped to become Olympic sponsor

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  OCTOBER 1- A REPORT published today has claimed that British Airways is set to become the official airline of the London Olympics in a multi-million pound deal.

to sign up an airline before the end of the year as they need to arrange more than 1,000 flights for Team

GB athletes and officials to next summer's Beijing Olympics.  

London 2012 bid to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games to London and was delighted when the bid team


Brailsford to oversee British cycling until 2012

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  BRITISH CYCLING'S performance director Dave Brailsford (pictured) has been given a new long-term contract which will see him retained in the role until after the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced today.

"We have the greatest possible confidence in Dave and the hugely competent team that he has built around

"I am very fortunate to have an outstanding team of riders and staff around me.  

"I remain as driven as ever to help GB riders become the best in the world and whilst we have achieved

"The opportunity to lead the team in a home Olympics is a privilege and one which I relish.   

GB cycling fans are fantastic and I am sure that they would really get behind a British team competing


Brailsford to oversee British cycling until 2012

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  BRITISH CYCLING'S performance director Dave Brailsford (pictured) has been given a new long-term contract which will see him retained in the role until after the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced today.

"We have the greatest possible confidence in Dave and the hugely competent team that he has built around

"I am very fortunate to have an outstanding team of riders and staff around me.  

"I remain as driven as ever to help GB riders become the best in the world and whilst we have achieved

"The opportunity to lead the team in a home Olympics is a privilege and one which I relish.   

GB cycling fans are fantastic and I am sure that they would really get behind a British team competing


Brailsford to oversee British cycling until 2012

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 BRITISH CYCLING'S performance director Dave Brailsford (pictured) has been given a new long-term contract which will see him retained in the role until after the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced today.

  "We have the greatest possible confidence in Dave and the hugely competent team that he

  "I am very fortunate to have an outstanding team of riders and staff around me.

    "I remain as driven as ever to help GB riders become the best in the world and whilst

  Cookson said: "We acknowledge that the structure of the team will have to be within the

GB cycling fans are fantastic and I am sure that they would really get behind a British team competing