Visually impaired skier Menna Fitzpatrick has won the Ski Club of Great Britain's Evie Pinching Award for 2016.

) for the year to help with training and competing.Fitzpatrick was talent spotted by ParaSnowsports GB

"It was a privilege to even be nominated amongst such high achieving athletes including my team-mate

I had a call last week on behalf of the Organising Committee of the Rio Olympics as, I imagine, did some of my colleagues.

Few doubt whether Team GB can get anywhere near emulating the record-breaking golden achievements of

Tomorrow marks 100 days to go to the start of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. 

As I write we have announced 81 athletes from seven different sports, with the ultimate team size heading

Certainly.This is very much the case with our preparation for the “team behind the team”.

now, every decision, is geared to supporting our athletes and making sure everyone who pulls on a GB

This is a serious kick-on for ParalympicsGB, closely involving the Team Leaders and other key sport

We need you to support the team through the National Lottery and through the Supercharge campaign. 

Those of you who have met me will know I am not the most practical. Words such as clumsy are associated with me far too often for my liking, but it is no surprise. The evidence has been there for years.

Firm-but-friendly Russian Andrey Klyushin, the coach of the Team GB foil squad, taught us everything

though I can’t say I will be rivalling the likes of International Olympic Committee President and team

It is a rare day when I find myself agreeing with Yelena Isinbaeva.

in concurrence.As things stand, there remains a distinct possibility of the Russian track and field team

its enviably well-resourced, National Lottery-funded athletes.It has seemed to me for some time that team

GB is unlikely to fall too far short of this lofty but unnecessarily vainglorious goal: there are a

events compared with London 2012; Brazil’s problems might deprive it of much of the customary home-team

bounce; medal-rich swimming and athletics may deliver an unwontedly healthy GB medals haul, as might

When we talk about the high performance system that underpins elite sport, there can often be misinterpretation around what this means.

results of our work are illustrated clearly by the fact that the EIS worked with 86 per cent of the GB

EIS staff provided to athletes competing in more than 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports means that GB

have to make the nation proud of our sporting heroes – without forgetting the contribution of the team

behind the team at the EIS who help make it all possible.

The British Paralympic Association (BPA) have named a 12-strong women's squad featuring a mix of youth and experience for the Rio 2016 wheelchair basketball competition.

be my fifth Paralympic Games but I never get tired of hearing the news that I have made a Paralympic team

I got really quite emotional when I found out I’d made the team, it is just so exciting.Helen Freeman

that you are one of those who will be getting on that flight and pulling on the coveted Paralympics GB

team top is an absolute honour."

More than 1,000 children were given the opportunity to try skiing and snowboarding as part of England’s inaugural National Schools Snowsport Week.

The week was launched by Aimee Fuller, a slopestyle snowboarder who represented Team GB at Sochi 2014

Lutalo Muhammad will bid to earn strike gold at the 2016 European Taekwondo Union (ETU) Championships for the second time in his career after being named in a 15-strong British squad.

perform well in the under 87kg event at the Championships in Montreux to place further pressure on his team-mate

Hassan Haider and Bradly Sinden have been selected to compete at senior level for the first time by GB

Taekwondo.The pair are joined in the men’s team by Feyi Pearce, Benjamin Haines and Christian McNeish

British cider brand Strongbow has been named as the official drinks partner of Team GB for Rio 2016,

GB by launching a campaign with the theme Supporting the supporters.The sponsorship will be supported

factor from London 2012, where Team GB won 65 medals, including 29 golds.

GB," said Cindy Tervoort, Heineken’s UK marketing director.

Strongbow is looking to build on the "feel-good factor" from London 2012, where Team GB won 65 medals

GB clubhouse in London."

Six cities in the United Kingdom will host carnival events during this year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, it has been announced. 

the newly-created, Brazilian-themed carnivals to excite and engage the public with the Paralympics GB

team and disability sport.The Paralympics GB carnival will provide opportunities for the public to

"It is incredibly exciting to announce that we will hold Paralympics GB carnival events," said Tim

a chance to have fun and learn more about the Paralympic Games and to get behind the Paralympics GB

team and feel connected to what will be happening in Rio in September this year."

Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt is among the many sporting stars who are supporting a new campaign launched here today aimed at protecting children from exploitation and abuse around this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

TwitterFormer British Olympic high jumper Dalton Grant was joined at the campaign launch by Ryan Raghoo, a Team

GB hopeful for this year's Paralympics, and former Olympic sprinter Jennifer Stoute.

Dalton, a member of the Board of Directors of the successful London 2012 Olympic bid team, added: "I

British Judo has announced Japanese car manufacturer Nissan as its chosen automotive partner.

dCi 110 N-Connecta models, Qashqais and one X-Trail, for use by its staff including a nationwide team

of delivery officers.Nissan’s corporate sales team will also supply a seven-seat NV200 Combi for staff

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games ©Getty ImagesDan Windross, regional dealer fleet manager at Nissan Motor GB

In a simple but emotional moment, the Olympic flame will be carried this Tuesday (April 26) by Syrian swimmer Ibrahim Al Hussein at the Eleonas Refugee Camp in Athens. Ibrahim had part of his leg amputated, but still swims and plays wheelchair basketball.

anniversary of Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to quell a popular uprising.The Hungarian Olympic team

gold.When the Games were over many of the team members sought refuge.

By 2008, he had qualified for the US Olympic team which travelled to . Beijing.

GB at London 2012 ©Getty ImagesWar had also devastated the Balkans a quarter-of-a-century ago 1992,

The IOC are due to announce the final team members in early June and the ROA team is expected to number

Winter Olympian Aimee Fuller has marked the start of England’s inaugural National Schools Snowsport Week by giving snowboard tuition at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead.

Fuller, a slopestyle snowboarder who represented Team GB at Sochi 2014, offered her expertise to pupils

Aimee Fuller represented Team GB at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games ©Getty ImagesAs well as beginner