British Airways has been appointed as the official airline partner of Team GB and Paralympics GB for

British Paralympic Association (BPA) for both the London 2012 and Beijing 2008 Olympics and will fly Team

I just hope I can be on that exciting team flight home."

GB's rugby sevens team at Rio 2016 ©Getty Images"Flying home with the airline that carries our flag

will be a great way to celebrate the achievements of Team GB, as we look forward to an exciting and hopefully

by flying the team back to the UK after they have finished competing at Rio 2016."

Great Britain’s Jamie Cooke claimed the third International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup victory of his career after winning the men’s individual event in Kecskemét, Hungary.

It is great to have won a World Cup in Hungary but now we need to move on," said Pentathlon GB performance

combined event time of the day - 10:57.23.London 2012 bronze medallist Marosi held on to take silver with team-mate

Demeter overhauling Romani in the final 800m loop to take the third step on the podium.Tomorrow's mixed team

Armenia won gold for the second day in succession at the European Weightlifting Championships in Forde, Norway, when Nazik Avdalyan secured a sensational victory with her last lift in the 69kg.

Varvara Hayrapetyan, an official of the Armenia National Olympic Committee who is working with the team

Great Britain Park and Pipe has launched a new national snowsports competition league called Championship Ski and Snowboard (CSS) - which will be entirely video based.

Hamish McKnight, head snowboard coach of the GB Park and Pipe Team, came up with the concept.Britain

For the athletes we work with day to day, the Olympic and Paralympic Games are the pinnacle of their careers. As such, it is imperative that they are best prepared to deliver their optimal performance on the day, when it matters the most. Having a thorough plan in place for each athlete leading up to the day of competition can be a major factor in the search for success. It also helps to combat some of the challenges that accompany the realities of some of the biggest sporting events in the world.

For the last three weeks I have been in Brazil with other members of our British Judo performance team

well as numerous recovery swimming pools.Minas Tennis Clube in Belo Horizonte will be the base for Team

GB during its final preparations for Rio 2016 ©Minas Tennis ClubeThe visit was a great chance for our

athletes and staff to catch up with the Minas team and help tease out the details of our training plans

location of our final training base prior to the Olympics.Over the next few months, our performance team

World champion Bianca Walkden won the women’s over 73 kilogram title at the World Taekwondo President’s Cup in Bonn tonight, securing Great Britain’s first-ever senior gold medal at the event. 

The Liverpool-born star, who has cemented a heavyweight spot for Team GB at this year’s Olympic Games

The British Handball Association (BHA) has signed a funding agreement with the International Handball Federation (IHF).

"However we must keep our feet on the ground, as the national team and coach-development funds are relatively

The boys' under-18 team and the girls' under-16 programme are set to benefit from the funding boost,

Championship format.Funds will cover Championship participation fees and training camps, allowing the team

"A Performance Group is being established to help plan and oversee the national team and elite coach

“Ultimately our goal is to re-establish the GB teams at key age groups, including seniors, but this will

The seventh International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (Inas) World Tennis Championships will be held in Bolton in 2017, it has been announced.

FoundationMillar added: “If I am fortunate enough to be selected it will be a great honour to be part of the GB

team."

I have played in four Inas tournaments, all of which have been amazing experiences and to put on a GB

Commonwealth Games champion Zoe Smith heads Great Britain's 14-strong team for the European Weightlifting

August's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.A maximum of one male and one female place are available if sufficient team

Sarah Davies, Emily Godley, Mercy Brown, Hannah Powell and Noorin Gulam in the women's squad.The men's team

, Sam Henderson and Darius Jorkazadeh.London 2012 Olympian Jack Oliver takes his place on the men's team

ImagesAshley Metcalfe, British Weighlifting's chief executive, said: "We are sending our strongest team

us with very encouraging signs of achieving top performances and the best chance of qualifying for GB

tennis stars David Wetherill and Sara Head are to offer their support to a British Para table tennis team

The pair were named as part of a 12-strong team for this year’s Paralympic Games earlier this week,

attendance.The days are part of a series of events being held around the United Kingdom as the British team

The British team are working with home nation governing bodies to help attract the talent and believe

2012 bronze medallist Sara Head will be at the event in Cardiff ©Getty Images“We have a very talented GB

while the pathway and development teams have also enjoyed success, with Matthews earning European team

Sarah Stevenson is stepping down as Britain's first female high performance coach, she has announced. 

She is leaving the GB Academy in Manchester to devote more time to nine-month-old daughter Elsie Diana.Stevenson

The 32-year-old Stevenson is married to GB Taekwondo coach Steve Jennings.Sarah Stevenson is stepping

down from the GB Academy to spend more time with daughter ©GB Taekwondo “It’s not the job," she said

Federation's ruling Executive Board.She will also carry on in her role as one of eight Olympians selected as Team

GB Greats to mentor and share experiences with athletes preparing for Rio 2016. 

The serious injury sustained by the former British gymnastic queen Beth Tweddle - she has fractured two vertebrae in her neck - while taking part in the Channel 4 TV reality game show The Jump is a stark reminder of the dangers of launching oneself through space, fingers crossed rather than skis, and praying for a happy landing. 

subsequent Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006 that he did not want to see the like of Edwards anywhere near a GB

team tracksuit again. 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) - which will allow the former to use sports facilities in the build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

pleased that we have been able to partner with two great cities in Yokohama and Kawasaki which provide Team

GB athletes with outstanding sporting facilities at Keio University, the International Swimming Pool

We believe that the usage of the facilities of Yokohama City, Kawasaki City and Keio University by Team

GB during the training camp will make it possible to create exchanges with the citizens and young people

The news that Frank Bruno, Britain’s most beloved boxing figure, wanted to make a comeback at 54 was not the best news the sport could have had at a time when it is riding higher in public esteem than for many years.

English Institute for Sport (EIS) in Sheffield have made a massive contribution to the success of Team

GB in Olympic and other international boxing tournaments, as well as eventually the pro game, these

new British champion, is officially based, yet he can be observed frequently working out with the GB

Sheffield under the watchful eye of his former amateur international trainer Robert McCracken, who is Team

Team captain Tom Stalker is now promoted by Warren.Presumably funding body UK Sport, GB Boxing, who

Gibraltar plan to use a meeting of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) here this week to seek support to be able to compete in more international events.

appeared in every Commonwealth Games since Cardiff 1958, including at Glasgow 2014, where they sent a team

1958 and has appeared in every edition since.They have never won a medal.At Glasgow 2014 they sent a team

International Olympic Committee, despite having first applied in 1960 ©Getty ImagesGeorgina Cassar represented Team

GB in rhythmic gymnastics at London 2012 having previously competed for Gibraltar at the 2010 Commonwealth