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British Triathlon appoint head coaches

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  THE British Triathlon Federation have today named Dan Salcedo (pictured), Chris Jones and Ben Bright as their world class performance head coaches.

  All will work under Heather Williams, who was appointed last month as the new performance programme

The new head coach of women’s performance is Jones, who has worked in coaching roles with British Triathlon

Bright, a New Zealander, will head up the talent confirmation aspect of British Triathlon’s world class

After the Olympic Games, Bright left New Zealand to coach in Hong Kong for four years, first with the


British Triathlon appoint head coaches

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  THE British Triathlon Federation have today named Dan Salcedo (pictured), Chris Jones and Ben Bright as their world class performance head coaches.

  All will work under Heather Williams, who was appointed last month as the new performance programme

The new head coach of women’s performance is Jones, who has worked in coaching roles with British Triathlon

Bright, a New Zealander, will head up the talent confirmation aspect of British Triathlon’s world class

After the Olympic Games, Bright left New Zealand to coach in Hong Kong for four years, first with the


British synchro find role for part-time model

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  ADELE CARLSEN (pictured) has taken up her new role as technical programmes manager within British

Biz Price, who has worked as national coach for Canada and in a consultancy role for Spain, China and New

Zealand.  

Carlsen's new role includes helping centralise the sport, manage the high performance centre at Aldershot

at the FINA World Championships British Synchro has already shown signs of improvement and with the new

"In my new role I am working alongside her to help in the centralisation of the British Synchro, which


British synchro find role for part-time model

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  ADELE CARLSEN (pictured) has taken up her new role as technical programmes manager within British

Biz Price, who has worked as national coach for Canada and in a consultancy role for Spain, China and New

Zealand.  

Carlsen's new role includes helping centralise the sport, manage the high performance centre at Aldershot

at the FINA World Championships British Synchro has already shown signs of improvement and with the new

"In my new role I am working alongside her to help in the centralisation of the British Synchro, which


Second gold for Wiggins in Palma

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  BRITAIN'S Edward Clancy, Thomas Geraint, Paul Manning and Bradley Wiggins recorded an emphatic win over Ukraine in the men's team pursuit at the World Track Championships in Palma De Mallorca tonight.

Denmark took the bronze medal after a comfortable win over New Zealand in the third-fourth place raceoff


Sir Keith America's Cup bid given boost

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  LONDON 2012 deputy chairman Sir Keith Mills (pictured) was today backed to lead a successful British America's Cup bid by one of the best sailors in history.

  Russell Coutts, part of the New Zealand team that won and successfully defended the Cup in 1995


IOC enjoy new media bonus for 2012

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  REVENUES from broadcasting and new media rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics will rise nearly 40

Deals are still to be completed in Japan, Italy, Latin America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.  

IOC Marketing Director Timo Lumme said the new way of selling the rights - to a single "gatekeeper" per

territory who then sub-licences to traditional and new media - had boosted revenues.  

"About 15 percent for 2010-2012 will come from new media," Lumme said.


Clegg hails successful trip Down Under

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  BRITISH OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION chief executive Simon Clegg has said the trip to Sydney to compete in the Australian Youth Olympic Fesitval was an "exceptionally positive" experience and that it bodes well for London 2012.

Under the new cooperation agreement signed by the BOA and the Australian Olympic Committee, (AOC), Britain

"We're actually really pleased that they, along with New Zealand, are at the core of this with us.  


Britain's rowers top medal table

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  BRITAIN took home four out of a possible six gold medals at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney, winning all women’s events and easily claiming top spot on the medal tally.

around 37 degrees celcius at the Sydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith today, with teams such as New

They had a one second lead on the New Zealand crew at 1,000m, but the boat was adding pressure and it

Zealand in second and Western Australia who came in third.      

Going in lane three, Team GB pulled ahead of New Zealand after 500m.

Team GB held on and finished in second place behind New South Wales.  


Britain's youngsters rule the waves

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  BRITAIN'S young sailors emulated their senior counterparts when they topped the medal podium at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney today.

New Zealand, who was leading the pack in first place at the start of today’s races finished in third

place, beating New South Wales in a race-off to take home the bronze medal.  


Britain's gymnasts enjoy great day in Sydney

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  LED by Peterborough's Louis Smith (pictured), Britain's young gymnasts had an excellent day in the individual apparatus competition at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney, winning one gold, two silvers and one bronze.

The women qualified despite losing their final pool match 3-1 to New Zealand because their opponents


British rowers show their strength in Sydney

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  BRITISH rowers had a successful morning at the Australian Youth Olympic Fesitval on the Sydney International Regatta Course at Penrith with seven medals, including a one-two in the men's pair (pictured) and a gold in the women's single scull event.

Stephanie Mottram picked up a gold medal in the women’s single’s scull event beating off her Australian and New

Zealand opponents.  

collected Team GB’s fourth silver medal of the morning sandwiched between the Australian winners and the New

Zealand third placed crew.      



Weymouth wants to host America's Cup

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  WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND, the venue for the Olympic sailing events in 2012, is hoping to launch a bid to stage the America's Cup which could be worth up to half-a-billion pounds to the region.

"There's a lot of data to show that when Auckland in New Zealand hosted the cup the financial benefits


Mills launches British America's Cup bid

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  SIR KEITH MILLS, the former chief executive of London 2012,  today launched a £100 million British bid to win sailing's most prestigious trophy - the America's Cup.

The new team will comprise some of the world's leading sailors and boat designers, from the UK and beyond

In 2003, then-holders New Zealand had a similar injection into the economy when they hosted the trophy

Only America, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland have ever won the trophy.