He flew through the air with the greatest of unease, that daring young man unsteady on skis...

Minister Richard Caborn was to declare that he did not want to see the like of Edwards anywhere near a GB

team again.Eddie the Eagle captured the imaginations at the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics ©Getty ImagesIn

In Calgary the Italian team gave him a new helmet and the Austrians provided his skis.The British Ski

The scene where my team-mates got me drunk and I missed the Opening Ceremony was one."

Two former athletes have joined GB Taekwondo's high performance coaching squad.

Both athletes spent a significant time on the GB Taekwondo world class performance programme," said Gary

Hall, GB Taekwondo's performance director."

It is particularly pleasing to be able to recruit and invest in retired former elite athletes of the GB

international coaches and producing world class coaches.Ruebyn Richards has also joined the British coaching team

Both Mike and Ruebyn are super excited to join the team," Hall added."

British student Charlie Tanfield won gold for Team KGF in the men’s individual pursuit at the Tissot

more than seven seconds faster than silver medallist Ivo Oliviera of Portugal.Alexander Evtushenko of Team

 The United States women’s team, fastest qualifiers for the team pursuit, duly followed through

for the gold medal ahead of Italy and Canada.The United States, fastest qualifiers for the women;s team

pursuit, made no mistake in claiming gold at the UCI World Cup in Minsk ©UCIThe men’s team sprint title

43.397sec to defeat Poland, who clocked 44.116.Tanfield’s fellow Briton Elinor Barker, riding for the GB

A total of 12 basketball players have been selected to represent Scotland at this year's Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

event, making him the only Scot to have competed in the basketball event at two Commonwealth Games.Team GB

I am really excited to be part of Team Scotland for the first time, having missed out in 2006 due to

ensure that we are the best-prepared team on the Gold Coast this April."

Having been part of Team GB at London 2012, I know how special multi-sport events are and being part

of the wider Team Scotland will be a really enjoyable experience for the whole team."

Mahama Cho bids to become the first male Great Britian Taekwondo athlete to hit the jackpot at the latest World Taekwondo Grand Slam Champions event in Wuxi, China tomorrow.

World Championship silver medallist’s first outing of 2018.The London-raised heavyweight was voted GB

“When a team mate does so well it motivates others to do the same so let’s get the ball rolling.

after the Men's +80kg Bronze Medal contest in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ©Getty ImagesCho is the first GB

British bobsledder Bruce Tasker will miss the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after suffering a minor stroke on January 4.

will have further medical checks over the coming days.Tasker, who was part of the four-man bobsleigh team

Team GB could be in line for a retrospective bronze medal from Sochi 2014 ©Getty Images“To me, this was

“In the meantime, I’ll still be cheering the team on from my sofa!”

Team GB Chef de Mission, Mike Hay said: “We are desperately sorry for Bruce to lose his chance of becoming

GB in Sochi.

five Olympic and seven Paralympic medals has been unveiled for Pyeongchang 2018 by the Great Britain team

before in Chamonix.The Sochi haul could soon rise to five, however, as the men's four-man bobsleigh team

After a number of strong performances from GB athletes across this winter sport season, our agreed medal

of Russian athletes deemed eligible to compete as part of a neutral "Olympic Athletes from Russia" team

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) International Powerlifting Championships will see the introduction of an inclusive Mx category for transgender, non-binary and intersex athletes.

 Participation numbers are expected to grow significantly this year with Team GB and Team USA Powerlifting

Kirsty Clarke is set to leave her role as national development director of Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR).

Over that period she has built and led a strong development team which has opened up opportunities for

She has been a highly effective member of the senior management team and I know that I shall miss her

overhaul into how Olympic and Paralympic funding is distributed in Britain.It joined forces with Archery GB

Basketball, British Fencing, British Handball, British Volleyball, British Weightlifting, British Wrestling, GB

The current British number two tennis player, Aljaž Bedene, has informed the International Tennis Federation (ITF) that he has decided to once again represent Slovenia as he wants to play at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.

Britain at the Olympics.Aljaž Bedene attended practice sessions, such as this one in Birmingham, with the GB

Davis Cup team but was unable to play in a competitive match ©Getty ImagesIn a statement on social media

the support the LTA [Lawn Tennis Association] have shown me in that time and in fighting my case for GB

Triple world champion Elise Christie is among the five short track speed skaters selected to represent Great Britain at next year's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. 

1,000m and 1,500m events in the Games scheduled to take place from February 9 to 25.She is joined on the team

by Charlotte Gilmartin, also returning from the team that competed at Sochi 2014 and who is scheduled

GB again after four years."

I'm so proud to be able to say I'll be representing Team GB at the Games."

Kathryn Thomson will be making her Olympic debut at Pyeongchang 2018 ©Team GBShort track team leader

USA Taekwondo have announced the appointments of coaches Paul Green and Gareth Brown as they seek to reinvigorate their programme.

Both coaches had been part of the successful GB Taekwondo set-up, with Green having coached Jade Jones

pair are due to  join USA Taekwondo on February 1, where they will take up the post of national team

coach Jason Poos as their Para-taekwondo head coach.The American will now be tasked with guiding the team

Britain's Bianca Walkden and South Korea's Lee Dae-hoon have been named as Female and Male Athletes of the Year at World Taekwondo's fourth annual Gala Awards.

ceremony coinciding with the Ivory Coast city hosting the World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final and World Team

GB performance director Gary Hall praised Walkden's professionalism and hailed her desire to bounce back

after successfully hosting the biggest World Championships in history, while they scooped the national team

Bobsleigh athletes Aleksandr Kas’yanov, Aleksei Pushkarev and Ilivir Khuzin have been sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Disciplinary Commission over the Sochi 2014 doping scandal.

The trio were part of the Russian four-man bobsleigh team which finished in fourth place at the Olympic

 Their line-up was completed by Maxim Belugin.The decision to sanction the team has added significance

been due to be moved into the bronze medal position.It followed Russia's gold medal winning four-man team

“Stu Benson, Joel Fearon, John Jackson and Bruce Tasker, and the entire GB Bobsleigh team and staff,

“This news comes on the back of an outstanding few weeks for GB Bobsleigh, with medal success and personal

British ice hockey great John Murray - who was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Association (BIHA) Hall of Fame in 1996 -  has died at the age of 93.

 During his era he made the national team at several occasions including the 1948 Olympic Winter

 Murray became captain of the team that competed in Colorado Springs and Denver but after winning

 His first call-up for the GB squad came at the 1948 Games and, in total, he played a total of five

B, scoring 8 goals in 23 appearances.In 1952, he was captain, coach and manager of the all-English team

 The League collapsed in 1960, and faced with the prospect of no regular league matches, the team