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Top Scottish footballer supports Team GB for 2012

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pictured) today became the first top Scottish player to support the concept of a united British football team

"The team would be dominated by English players, but there would be a few others in there.

It would be a good team."  


Top Scottish footballer supports Team GB for 2012

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pictured) today became the first top Scottish player to support the concept of a united British football team

"The team would be dominated by English players, but there would be a few others in there.

It would be a good team."  


British women basketball players boost 2012 chances

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themselves a great chance of competing in 2012 Olympics by tonight emulating the success of the men's team

The aggregate was a convincing 128-90 victory for GB after they trounced the Dutch 68-32 in Manchester

Mark Clark's team went into the locker room at half-time 26-20 down after edging a tight second quarter

Congreaves' third three-pointer of the night gave GB the lead 42-41 with 1:10 remaining in the third

In Manchester, Kristy Lavin had scored 16 points and Moody added 17 in Manchester as GB held the Dutch


British squad to go Dutch announced

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  THE British Volleyball’s men’s team that will be moving to Holland on the later this month to play

winning the World Grand Prix in Japan, highlighting the benefits of having the National side playing as a team

The squad is made up from those training with the GB programme, funded by UK Sport, over the past year

Following a successful summer campaign in Egypt, Tunisia and Poland the team will fly out to Holland


Adidas confirmed as London 2012 sponsor

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SEPTEMBER 20 - AS REVEALED exclusively in insidethegames on Tuesday, German sports goods maker Adidas were named today as the latest Tier One sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics at a glittering ceremony.

The team at LOCOG and I look forward to working with them over the next five years or so," said Coe."

worked with the British Olympic Association (BOA), since 1984, will provide specially designed kit for Team

GB in 2012 as well as clothing for the 70,000 volunteers.


Highland Spring to sponsor GB Davis Cup team

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the country’s leading producer of bottled water, has today announced a new sponsorship deal with the GB

Davis Cup Team.

  The team will take on Croatia in the World Group play-off from 21-23 September on the No.1 Court

Captained by John Lloyd, the four man team consists of Andy and Jamie Murray, Tim Henman and Jamie Baker

"This is an important tie for us but the whole team are ready for what will be a tough but exciting match

the most prestigious events in the sporting calendar and we are proud to be supporting the British team

"We wish the team the very best of luck this weekend and would like to extend our congratulations to


Britain's basketball players gain promotion

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  BRITAIN's basketball players recorded their ninth victory in a row to beat Switzerland 89-78 - 163-119 on aggregate - in Geneva to win promotion to Europe's Division A, greatly boosting their hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Olympics.

  Next summer Chris Finch's team will have the opportunity to qualify for the 2009 European Championship

finals, a feat which may not be beyond them if the current team stays together and maintains their defensive

Robert Archibald played probably his best game for the team, scoring 23 points and adding six rebounds

Luol Deng scored 10 of his 22 points in the last quarter to lead the team to victory and skipper Andrew

win the game, hitting an 11-0 run with two three-pointers from Derek Stockalper to reduce a long-term GB


London announce new sponsorship category

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  LONDON 2012 today announced a new tier one category is to be added to its commercial sponsorship programme.

Games related marketing rights, it is anticipated that the prospective partner would provide suits for Team

GB and Paralympics GB for both Vancouver 2010 and London 2012.  

In addition, they would also provide Team GB and Paralympics GB with uniforms for the opening and closing


British women strike gold

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their Modern Pentathlon World Championships campaign on a high note by striking gold in the women’s team

“It was a happy ending for us,” said Jan Bartu, the GB team’s Performance Director.  

The GB team was aided by having Weedon in Berlin for the team relay – she did not participate in the

GB climbed a place to second after the fencing courtesy of another third place performance.  

The GB fencers won 63 contests and lost 45 to score 844 points.  

After two disciplines Russia were top, with GB second and Belarus third.  


BOA add Aldershot to 2012 shortlist

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  THE British Olympic Association (BOA) have added Aldershot to their shortlist of potential preparation camps for the 2012 London Games, they announced today.

executive Simon Clegg said: "Today's decision to include Aldershot in the shortlisted venues to host Team

GB in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games in no way suggests that we are dissatisfied with the offerings

Millfield have proven hugely encouraging to the extent that all three sites offer a better environment than Team

GB has ever experienced at a previous pre-Olympic preparation camp.  


Tall order for athletes as search continues for 2012 stars

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  JULY 27 - UK SPORT and the English Institute of Sport today launched a new programme to identify particularly tall athletes from all over the country with the ability to represent Britain in the 2012 Olympics.

The opportunity has come about as two of the newer team sports to the UK's high-performance system look

Olympic campaigns with an injection of new talent to complement their existing squads.At the same time, GB

have been submitted to UK Sport, the athletes' profiles will be scrutinised by a multi-disciplinary team


British Basketball given green light

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  THE dispute that threatened to jeopardise British Basketball playing in the 2012 Olympics has been resolved.

basketball in England , which had threatened to compromise the availability of English players for Team

GB, had been successfully resolved.  

’s teams to compete in this year’s EuroBasket Division B   To qualify for EuroBasket Division A, Team

Team GB’s women must overcome Estonia , Luxembourg , Bosnia and Portugal in a group which runs from September

The GB men’s team will feature Chicago Bulls’ Luol Deng, the NBA’s Sportsmanship Award winner for season


British Handball announce major appointments

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  THE British Handball Association (BHA) today announced the appointment of two coaches to help the developing sport prepare for the 2012 Olympics.

programme on a part-time basis, while he continues with his new role as head coach of Danish men’s team

mentor for the Norwegian Handball Federation and was a part or the national junior women’s coaching team

"While having Holmeset working full time on the women’s team preparation is bound to help us towards

the technical, tactical, physical and mental preparation of the players, which I am sure, will give GB


British Handball announce major appointments

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  THE British Handball Association (BHA) today announced the appointment of two coaches to help the developing sport prepare for the 2012 Olympics.

programme on a part-time basis, while he continues with his new role as head coach of Danish men’s team

mentor for the Norwegian Handball Federation and was a part or the national junior women’s coaching team

"While having Holmeset working full time on the women’s team preparation is bound to help us towards

the technical, tactical, physical and mental preparation of the players, which I am sure, will give GB


British Volleyball to enter team into Dutch league

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  THE British Volleyball Federation today announced a collaboration with the Dutch Volleyball team Martinus

will be based in Amstelveen from October through to April and training daily under the direction of GB

"To have the support of a club with the status and history of Martinus is a huge boost to the men’s team

said: “This exciting partnership will allow players to build on their training together and work as a team

The team started a daily centre based programme based EIS Sheffield in June this year and will be based

already have experience in working alongside the developments of national programmes as the Dutch women’s team