The British Olympic Association (BOA) has extended its partnership with professional services firm Deloitte UK through to 2020, it was announced today.

geared towards achieving the objective of having the best prepared, best performing and best supported team

Our Deloitte British Olympic Association secondees in Rio played critical roles in supporting Team GB

Welsh table tennis players heading to the World Championships in Düsseldorf were among those caught in more chaos here today following technical problems suffered by British Airways.

 Welsh team members Chloe Thomas, Callum Evans and Daniel O’Connell were among those hoping to board

Para-athlete in United States national kit heading for a competition in Paris and a youth national team

however, already arrived before the problems.British Airways were the official airline partner for Team

GB at last year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.Team members, including medal winners, flew back from

Drzonkow is poised to stage the fourth event of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup season, with athletes looking to secure their places at the series final.

26).Finals will then be held in Poland, while a mixed relay event will also be contested.Pentathlon GB

Rio 2016 Olympics to focus on his maths degree.Jamie Cooke and Tom Toolis will join him in the men's team

A number of sporting bodies have expressed their shock after last night's terrorist attack in Manchester.

Our thoughts today are with Manchester and with anyone affected," a Team GB tweet read."

many sporting events and has been used as the home for teams in city.The Manchester Giants basketball team

England's Rugby Football Union (RFU) chief executive Ian Ritchie has announced he will retire from his role at the end of the summer.

He has led the RFU through a period of sustained growth and success, built a terrific management team

side doing so in 2016 and the women's and the under-20s sides achieving the feat this year.The men's team

made it back-to-back Six Nations crowns in March, while world titles have been won by the women's team

Boards of the British and Irish Lions and the Six Nations.Additionally, he is chairman of the Board of Team

GB Rugby Sevens.Prior to joining the RFU, Ritchie was the chief executive of the All England Lawn Tennis

Great Britain endured a mixed final day of the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Sardinia as victory in the

clash.Britain had earlier come from a match down to defeat Israel and win a fifth quads event.WORLD TEAM

It's been a big team effort this week and it's amazing to win wearing the GB vest again," said Lapthorne

medallist Gordon Reid helped Britain record a comfortable 3-0 win over hosts Italy at the BNP Paribas World Team

crucial Pool B decider with Austria, who narrowly ousted China 2-1.It's a busy day of pool ties for the 3 GB

teams @BNPParibas World Team Cup@BritishTennis @DavisCup capt.

nbsp;continued their ominous start to the event in Sardinia as they recorded another 3-0 win.The Dutch team

Switzerland replicated the result in their match against Brazil in Pool D.Action at the BNP Paribas World Team

becoming the deputy Chef de Mission for Great Britain's European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) team

Beijing 2008 and London 2012.She has taken up the role of the deputy Chef de Mission for Britain's team

Board of the British Olympic Association Athletes’ Commission and I am looking forward to helping lead Team

GB as Deputy Chef de Mission for the European Youth Olympic Festival in Hungary this summer," said Sayers

Tributes have been paid to Great Britain’s silver medal winning high jumper Germaine Mason after he was killed in a motorcycle crash in Jamacia today.

Germaine was a great athlete, an Olympian and a silver medal winning part of Team GB who made history

difficult time.”Ben Hawes, Chairman of the Athletes Commission for the BOA, added: "On behalf of all Team

GB Olympians I would like to express our shock and deep sadness at this news.

pic.twitter.com/HdYuCfAguO— James Ellington (@Jellington100m) April 20, 2017Many of his British team-mates

Great Britain Skeleton has paid tribute to slider Donna Creighton with the 31-year-old due to leave the country's elite programme.

Donna is a model athlete," said GB Skeleton's performance director Andi Schmid.Donna Creighton raced

highly professional in everything she did and we would all like to thank her for her dedication to the team

 "It's been a very successful 13 years and I've only got fond memories of my time with the team,

Michelle Webb has left the British Olympic Association (BOA) following seven years at the organisation to join the National Football League’s United Kingdom (NFL UK).

Games, including London 2012, Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016.She was a key member of the BOA's commercial team

, British Airways, Nissan, DFS and Kellogg’s.Webb also worked across a number of events such as the Team

GB Ball, the Professional Cricketers' Awards and British House at various Games."

It’s a really exciting time to be joining the NFL UK team, the sport continues to appeal to and engage

We are delighted that Michelle has joined our commercial team at a time of such growth," added Melissa

British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning has claimed he is "very encouraged" by the way staff and riders are responding to changes outlined in a 39-point action plan.

Julie Harrington will join as chief executive in May and the formal creation of an Executive Leadership Team

with that of Stephen Park, the new performance director, who is accompanying the Great Britain cycling team

The combination of new leadership team and structure, and the introduction of professional processes

British Cycling's world-class performance programme has delivered huge success for Tea, GB at the Olympics

Getty ImagesRiders on the WCPP are said to have been guided through the process which determines elite team

History tells us that cricket’s last Olympic appearance came at the Paris Games in 1900, and it seems as though a return to the programme for the sport has been discussed ever since the final ball was bowled in the French capital more than a century ago.

“If the IOC says you cannot have a regional team, which are the rules as it stands, then that is where

“There are some teams in the Caribbean who field a team at national tournaments but these are usually

My dream would be the West Indies having the chance to field a regional team.

But obviously the medal would be given to the team and would have an effect on the statistics and the

, disguised under the Team GB banner, competing would surely be a given.

Tomorrow is the official start of the Olympic and Paralympic cycle for Tokyo. It will mark the start of four years of hard work. However, for those that work in the UK’s high performance system Tokyo 2020 is something we have been planning towards for some time.

and Paralympics was astonishing.The EIS worked with 93 per cent of the athletes that won a medal for Team

GB and Paralympics GB in Rio and whilst it is satisfying to know that we made a contribution to this

the area of Athlete Health.Performance directors often tell me that reducing the number of days that GB

 This work will be delivered by the EIS’s Performance Innovation team (previously known as the Research

& Innovation team) which will work closely with sports and front-line EIS practitioners to address

British Olympic Association (BOA) chief executive Bill Sweeney has claimed that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is "very interested and very keen" on a Ryder Cup-style event between the two country's Olympic teams following discussions on the idea.

) and yesterday and was relatively upbeat when asked here at SportsPro Live, in a session entitled "Team

GB and the National Lottery: Where next for British sport's biggest success story?"

official Ryder Cup took place in 1927 at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts in America.Britain's team