British Gymnastics has broken the 250,000 member mark, reaching an historic milestone for the organisation.

certificate, and as well as awarding the medals to the top gymnasts she also got the chance to meet Team

GB medal-winning acrobatic gymnasts Ryan Bartlett and Hannah Baughn.It is claimed there are now more

bronze.Smith and Whitlock also formed part of Britain's bronze medal-winning men's artistic gymnastics team

Agents are the bane of sport. There are more of them around now than the KGB, MI5 and CIA have amassed in all the years they have been in existence. And they are taking over. 

governing body offering an interview with a reigning Olympic champion from London 2012 taking part in a team

GB event to coincide with it being one year to go to Rio.

agency.Excellent examples include Frank Warren’s Richard Maynard, Matchroom’s Anthony Leaver and GB

Japan and Ireland have booked their place at next season's HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series after coming through qualification in Dublin this weekend.

"Women’s rugby is one of the fastest growing team sports in the world and the competition among teams

storiesJune 2015: World Rugby announce nominees for Women's Sevens Player of the YearMay 2015: England secure Team

GB quota for Rio 2016 as Canada claim Amsterdam Sevens titleMay 2015: Canada and Australia seal women's

Italy’s Camilla Lontano and Valerio Grasselli combined to win the first gold medal of the 2015 Modern Pentathlon European Championships as the pair claimed victory in the mixed relay event at the University of Bath in Britain.

which started the day, Lontano and Grasselli began to take control as they proved to be the best team

athletics track.While Belarus and Germany were able to record faster times, the Italians were the only team

Home favourites Kate French and Joe Evans were only able to secure a fifth place finish ©GB Pentathlon

“Camilla did very well, we are a team.

Upon arrival at the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham, I was greeted by the sight of British Canoeing’s Nikki Paterson making the final preparations to her kayak before heading onto the two kilometres lake for one of her final training sessions ahead of the Para-canoe World Championships in Milan.

it completely changed the direction in which my life was going in.”Nikki Paterson became part of the GB

Para-canoeing team after attending a Paralympic talent day ©ITGHaving been accepted onto the GB Para-canoe

month, an event that doubled as Britain’s World Championship trials, where she earned silver behind her team

para-athletes, one of her coaches remarked about the rapid progress she had made since joining the GB

After being accepted onto the GB Rowing programme he joined forces with Sam Scowen to qualify for the

European Confederation Continental Championships in Samokov, marking the best performance by a boxing team

important step on the Road to Rio for a very talented but relatively inexperienced group of boxers," said GB

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has said that not having the Union flag on his Team GB kit

steeplechaser Eilish McColgan replied by saying "it looks like you're representing British Athletics instead of GB

GB kit for the forthcoming IAAF World Championships ©Getty ImagesParalympian shot putter Sam Ruddock

This was the GB Athletics kit just 4 weeks ago at Euro Juniors..#flag...I do like a flag!”

“It’s unfortunate it might leave me off the team to Beijing.

“If I’m not on the team, I’m going to sit down and have a chat with my lawyer.”

The first time I interviewed Anna Watkins, the London 2012 double sculls gold medallist who this week announced she was back in the sport after a three-year break and training for Rio 2016, she was still Anna Bebington, and she had only just graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge with a degree in natural sciences.

ridiculous to come back after three years out and two children and, within a year, get into the Olympic team

Sir David Tanner, GB Rowing Team performance director, has been cautious but optimistic in his comments

series of trials and testing through the Autumn and early winter followed in March of next year by the GB

Rowing Team senior team trials.Anna Watkins at a sports award ceremony in November 2013 with her first

United States remain on target to finish top of the medals table at next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, according to a latest projection published with a year to go, with Britain expected to win just 10 golds and Brazil predicted to sneak into the top 10 with nine.

48 medals this time around, down from 29 gold and 65 medals.That is a long way short of the target Team

GB have been set by the British Olympic Association of Government funding agency UK Sport of winning

Russia last week is partly attributed for this fall, with Barra noting how the US did select their team

, when Olympic Trials will be held shortly before the Games and Michael Phelps could be back on the team

Three years after her last competitive international race - in which she won the London 2012 women’s double sculls title with Katherine Grainger - Britain's Anna Watkins has announced that she is back in training and aiming for the Rio 2016 Games.

ridiculous to come back after three years out and two children and, within a year, get into the Olympic team

out ©Getty ImagesIt remains to be seen what progress Watkins makes and how Sir David Tanner, the GB

months now and she has stepped up the intensity of her programme this month as she seeks to re-join the GB

series of trials and testing through the autumn and early winter followed in March of next year by the GB

rowing team senior team trials.

Britain’s most successful Olympian Sir Chris Hoy is one of eight former athletes who will take part in a Team

GB Greats programme launched to help provide guidance to athletes in the build-up to Rio 2016.

“Right now Team GB athletes are hard at work, training day in day out to ensure that they are the best

“Right now Team GB athletes are hard at work, training day in day out to ensure that they are the best

is among eight former athletes recruited by the British Olympic Association to be part of a Team GB

Greats programme ahead of Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesSelected messages will be featured on Team GB Bahia Bands

“The plan for Team GB in the run up to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is to leave no stone unturned in the

third edition of the British Paralympic Association’s (BPA) National Paralympic Day by providing a team

Employees of the American confectionery firm, sponsors of the BPA and Paralympics GB through to Rio

Land's End in Cornwall to John O' Groats in Scotland with the funds raised going towards the Paralympic GB

He took up sculling to follow the example of his brother but victory in the oldest sporting race of them all may inspire Louis Pettipher to emulate Mark Hunter by winning an Olympic gold medal.

“See me in Team GB next year,” he said. Tokyo 2020 may well be a more realistic prospect.

Loughborough University are carrying out an independent research project on the manufacture and testing of boccia balls for competition.

gathering was the first stage of the project and drew to a close with the completion of the European Team

attended the event to find out the views of stakeholders.An expert researcher was at the European Team

and Pairs Championships to gather date ©GB BocciaThe expert also attended last month's World Open in

secure place at Rio 2016July 2015: Great Britain well-placed to retain titles at 2015 Boccia European Team

and Pairs ChampionshipsJuly 2015: Competition schedule revealed for 2015 Boccia European Team and Pairs

Great Britain beat Slovakia to successfully defend their BC1/BC2 team title at the 2015 Boccia European

Team and Pairs Championships in Guildford, England, and secure qualification for next year's Paralympic

in the world and creating a legacy for GB Boccia."

Despite losing out in the final, GB Boccia estimates that the BC4 pairs team has enough ranking points

hitch and receiving positive feedback from the visiting European teams," said John Dowson, chair of GB

"It's been a real team effort between UK Sport, GB Boccia, Boccia England and the University of Surrey

to run the event and it has really showcased the UK and GB Boccia as hosts."