A project has been launched at Loughborough University to help Britain's wheelchair rugby prepare for next year's Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

London 2012 ©Getty ImagesThe research group is being led by Tom Paulson, the applied sport scientist for GB

 “In 12 months’ time the aim is to win a medal in Rio and be the first GB wheelchair rugby squad

British squad named in pursuit of first European Wheelchair Rugby title since 2007January 2015: GB

Competition schedules for the 2015 Boccia European Team and Pairs Championships has been released ahead

The two-day tournament will see the top eight ranked European nations in the BC1/BC2 team, BC3 pair

on Slovakia three hours later, with live streaming available throughout Saturday (July 25) on the GB

hoping to produce good performances.The full competition schedule for the tournament has been released ©GB

John Dowson, chairman of GB Boccia.

“This is a very important staging post on the Road to Rio with GB athletes preparing well after their

I am writing this a couple of hours after posting a news story about the ongoing transfer of nationality involving three Jamaican athletes, including Olympic and world medallist Shericka Williams, who now want to compete for Bahrain.

.”Earlier this year Qatar, hosts to the World Men’s Handball Championship, reached the final with a team

Last month, for instance, Britain assimilated five new talents into its potential squad of team members

Indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty to tweet: “Good for fans to see home grown talent representing GB

Name England’s winning World Cup team of1966?

In most countries, having run the times they have, the two sprinters would be first on the team sheet

UK Sport have announced they are to inject £1.9 million ($2.9 million/€2.7 million) into Team GB’s preparation

UK Sport and The National Lottery as we ramp up our preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games,” Team

GB Chef de Mission Mark England said.

GB at London 2012 ©Getty ImagesThe camp is set to be the largest pre-Olympic set-up that Team GB have

GB preparation camp, to the start line in Rio, and we would like to thank National Lottery players

GB chose Belo Horizonte as base ahead of Rio 2016 OlympicsDecember 2012: TeamGB secure Rio 2016 Olympic

WheelPower have appointed Chris Turner to the key role of national sports director for the national charity of wheelchair sport.

two county sports partnerships and a sport & leisure consultancy.His latest role working for Archery GB

WheelPower chief executive Martin McElhatton said: “WheelPower are delighted to welcome Chris to the team

British wheelchair rugby players Ayaz Bhuta and Jim Roberts have joined the roster of BT Ambassadors, it has been announced.

for the Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) development squad in 2011 and was part of the British team

Having their support is invaluable as it allows me to really focus on training and the team can go to

seasons he achieved a clean sweep, winning the US Quad Rugby Association nationals in the USA, and the GB

With the Britain's wheelchair rugby team currently ranked number one in Europe and fifth in the world

disability sport is unparalleled and I’m delighted that two of our players have joined the BT Ambassador team

Vijender Singh and a GB women’s football team may be as far apart as Bhiwani Junction and Clapham Junction

did enough to qualify Team GB for Rio 2016 but will not take part because of opposition from Northern

Association and new Sports Minister Tracey Crouch.British Olympic chiefs will campaign to bring back a GB

“It is absolutely our wish to have a football team competing for Team GB in 2020,” says BOA chief executive

"Not having a women's, or indeed a men's, team as part of Team GB is a disappointing outcome particularly

given the recent performances of the women's team," says Sweeney.

ITV are to broadcast the BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge (WWRC), due to be held in October at the Copper Box Arena on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, it was announced today.

joined by former England and British Lions player Ugo Monye, reporter Rachael Latham and commentary team

Rugby ChallengeFebruary 2015: Schedule announced for BT World Wheelchair Rugby ChallengeJanuary 2015: GB

Britain's Samantha Murray's title defence got off to an ideal start as she qualified for the women's final at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Championships in Berlin.

running and shooting was up there with the best," said Jan Bartu, performance director of Pentathlon GB

ChampionshipsJune 2015: Hosts Germany start Modern Pentathlon World Championships in style with men's team

Zharnel Hughes, the 19-year-old sprinter who gave his training partner Usain Bolt a run for his money over 200 metres  in New York City earlier this month, says he is targeting next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after being ruled eligible to compete for Britain.

after either transferring or choosing to compete.Also opting for the British team is 100m hurdler

about Britain's latest "imported" talent ©Getty ImagesThe news of five more converts to the British team

began with the relatively restrained observation: “Good for fans to see home grown talent representing GB

He added: “All sprinters I’ve spoken to this morning in the team feel exactly the same as me but daren

’t speak out.”Hughes said he was "ecstatic" and "grateful" to represent Team GB."

I still vividly remember the moment I was offered a job at insidethegames when managing director Sarah Bowron called me from a place then unbeknown to me; Baku. 

Games over his coverage of Azerbaijan’s human rights record, and the odd medal here and there for Team

GB, it has largely remained the same since the event got under way on June 12.

though is the tragic death of a British subcontractor working for FiveCurrents, who are the production team

day prior to the Baku 2015 Opening Ceremony, when three members of Austria’s synchronised swimming team

noticed this most at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, where I was covering the men’s and women’s archery team

Great Britain set a world record time to win their mixed coxed four heat at the Para-rowing World Cup in Varese and secure their place in the final on Saturday (June 20).

storiesJune 2013: Aggar takes World Cup gold at Eton Dorney after London 2012 disappointmentJune 2012: Team

GB mixed adaptive coxed four takes victory over Germany in Munich

Britain’s Olympic taekwondo bronze medallist Lutalo Muhammad, who grew up watching videos of boxing greats such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, has engaged in some classic fighter’s talk ahead of a possible meeting later this week with Aaron Cook.

both physically and mentally,” whose under 80kg spot at the recent World Championships was taken by team-mate

Britain last month, is used to the awkwardness of watching her boyfriend Aaron Cook fight against her team-mates

“There’s always that positive view in the team that we can come back from injury and we can come back

’s just boyfriend and girlfriend.”She’s prepared to mask her feelings here if Cook and her British team-mate

to Isle of Man following London 2012 snubOctober 2012: Cook considers nationality switch following GB

Olympic women’s boxing champion Nicola Adams will be Team GB’s flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony at

“To be representing Team GB at the first-ever European Games is a great honour and being selected as

“I will always cherish the experience of leading Team GB into the stadium.

“I hope that this is just the start of a successful Games for Team GB.”Nicola Adams became the first-ever

“Nicola is a superb choice to lead Team GB into the Opening Ceremony in Baku and we are very proud to

Ceremony have sold outApril 2015: Olympic champions named in Team GB squad for inaugural European

World champion curler Sheila Swan has been appointed as the new head coach for the Scottish and British Wheelchair Curling programme, it has been announced.

degree of success in recent years after Britain’s men won Olympic silver, the women won bronze and the team

“We have some very good players competing for Scotland and Team GB.

“My experiences as a player and a coach have made me fully aware of the pressures and demands the team

am relishing the challenge.”Sweden's Olympic bronze medallist Viktor Kjäll has joined the coaching team

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