Two-time Olympic medal-winning field hockey player Stephen Martin has been appointed Ireland’s Chef de Mission for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games.

and medical support teams.Martin was deputy Chef de Mission at Summer and Winter Olympic Games with Team

GB in Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002 and Athens 2004, and also a member of the UK Sports Institute Board.Additionally

, he has worked with Team Ireland in many capacities, including deputy Chef de Mission at the Beijing

It’s a privilege to lead the Irish Team in Pyeongchang following on from the Sochi Winter Games of 2014

Winter sports are fortunate to have such an experienced and respected Olympian heading up Team Ireland

Six Moroccan athletes are included in a list of 19 new doping cases released by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that also includes former Great Britain sprinter Tim Abeyie.

Christof Niklaus, the Chef de Mission for the Great Britain squad set to take part in the Deaflympics next year in the Turkish city of Samsun, has informed athletes that he will "seek further reassurances" that it is safe to travel to the country following recent security issues.

on Saturday night included a car bomb outside the Vodafone Arena, home to Istanbul's Besiktas soccer team

held in Paris in 1924.Christof Niklaus was announced as the new Chef de Mission for the Deaflympics GB

Wheelchair Rugby has had its funding from UK Sport completely cut for the next four years in the build up to the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

of all funding for the national programme unfortunately puts a question mark over the future of the GB

team."

Great Britain's wheelchair rugby team have had their funding cut for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic cycle

“We are shocked by the decision by UK Sport not to support either our men’s or women’s team," said Mike

“Once again, team sports have been dealt a poor hand by UK Sport whose priorities seem to be in direct

Four Olympic sports have had their funding from UK Sport cut for the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

million) allocated in the run-up to Rio.When announcing the investment, UK Sport set the Great British team

Archery GB is committed to implementing long term plans to achieve international medal performances and

encourage developing archers at the grassroots of our sport," said Archery GB."

Rio this year was the most successful games to date for Team GB and Paralympics GB, winning a combined

There is a misconception that team sports are expensive to fund."

It has been a year which sport surely would prefer to forget. A veritable annus horribilis which has seen the games we play or watch lurch from crisis to unseemly crisis, plunging deep into the gutter - and beyond. 

ticket racketeering which he denies.A knighted British cycling icon - Sir Bradley Wiggins - and his Team

of light to pierce the pervading gloom, not least the glories of Rio, notably among record-breaking Team

GB, Andy Murray’s acquisition of his second Wimbledon and Olympic titles, Leicester City’s footballing

fairytale and the triumphant run of the England rugby union team under new coach Eddie Jones.But 2016

Dave Collins, who lost his job as UK Athletics performance director after Britain failed to achieve their target of five medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, has expressed his frustration at the news that three more medals stand to be awarded to them following retrospective doping bans.

Collins is delighted that Team GB is in line for additional bronzes with the men’s and women’s 4x400

International Olympic Committee (IOC).But he told Athletics Weekly that the media criticism received after Team

was "a positive building point" towards the success of home track and field athletes at London 2012.Team

GB brought home just four medals from China, one less than the target of five set by UK Sport.Goldie

nbsp;Aside from the four medals earned at the time and the three others likely to be made official, Team

International Boxing Federation (IBF) heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua has announced Rob McCracken as his full-time coach.

will coach Joshua full-time and be in his corner for future bouts, he will also remain in his post at GB

I have remained close to Rob and the GB Boxing squad since 2012," said Joshua."

headquarters are located.He has reportedly returned on several occasions to train with the British team

at the Games.McCracken believes the opportunity to train alongside Joshua could help members of the GB

Boxing team in the build-up to major events."

Heather Williams has been appointed as the new canoe sprint performance manager at British Canoeing while Olympic champion Tim Brabants has also joined the governing body as chief medical officer.

team.Previously, she has held a number of performance roles at British Triathlon while she sits on the Archery GB

opportunity to lead the new canoe sprint performance programme and build on the success that we achieved as a team

I look forward to working with a great team of support staff to keep our athletes in their optimum state

Sir Hugh Robertson has been elected as the new chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) to replace Sebastian Coe, it has been announced.

 "The success of Team GB does not come by chance and the meticulous preparations and dedication

 "As a recognised power in the global Olympic landscape after the history making feats in Rio, Team

GB is perfectly positioned to grow both commercially and competitively.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will take legal advice before making any move to reintroduce the controversial Osaka Rule.

initiated a bylaw which banned any athlete convicted of a serious doping offence from representing Team

GB at the Games.The United States Olympic Committee successfully challenged the Osaka Rule in 2011 on

A reintroduction of the controversial Osaka Rule, banning athletes convicted of serious doping offences from competing at the next Olympic Games, has been proposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be part of the World Anti-Doping Code.

was chair in 1992, which banned any athlete convicted of a serious doping offence from representing Team

GB at the Games.

Manchester in Great Britain will play host to the 2019 World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) World Championships, it has been announced.

“This is three events, two cities, one vision,” said Steve Flynn of GB Taekwondo.Abidjan in Ivory Coast

will host next year's WTF World Taekwondo Grand-Prix Final and 2017 WTF World Taekwondo Team Championships

Taekwondo Grand Prix Series, the 2019 WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix Final and the 2019 WTF World Taekwondo Team

GB Boxing has selected four women from their world-class performance programme to compete in the European

competing in the middleweight 75kg action.Double Olympic flyweight champion Nicola Adams and her Rio 2016 team-mate

boxers have a good record in this tournament so we are approaching it in a positive frame of mind," said GB

Great Britain's Nigel Murray and Jacob Thomas have both announced their retirement from the sport of boccia.

2004.At Beijing 2008, however, he won the silver medal in the individual BC2 and gold in the BC1/BC2 team

played alongside Dan Bentley, David Smith and Zoe Robinson.As well as winning a bronze medal in the team

 "Nigel's record speaks for itself and he will be a great loss to the programme," said GB Boccia

first won back in 2010.At the 2014 World Championships in Beijing, he also won a silver medal in the team

 "Jacob will be remembered for all the influential things he did as part of the GB squad, for years