By Paul OsborneA new accommodation building is to be built at the National Sports Centre in Inverclyde, making the facility the first in Scotland to become a dedicated Para-sport centre of excellence.

users to continue their activities throughout the process.Scottish athletes won 11 medals as part of Team

GB at the London 2012 Paralympic Games ©Getty Images"This is an incredibly exciting time for Inverclyde

By Paul OsborneFormer wheelchair racer Anne Wafula-Strike has been appointed a non-executive director at UK Athletics.

athlete gained British citizenship in 2006, after moving to the UK in 2000, and later competed for Team

GB on the international stage.In recent years Wafula-Strike has concentrated on charity work, fundraising

wheelchair racer from East Africa to compete at the Paralympics in Athens, and would later compete for Team

GB on the international stage ©Getty ImagesLondon is due to host both the IPC Athletics World Championships

By Emily GoddardDonna Cross, who won a bronze medal for Great Britain in football at the 2013 Deaflympics, has been named as the Deaf Sports Personality of the Year for 2014.

runner up at this year's National Deaf Squash Championships and was a member of the winning Yorkshire team

per cent of the vote, while golf and badminton star Mike Burris, who captained the British badminton team

deaf yachtsman to sail single-handed around the world, received the Lifetime Achievement Award.The Team

storiesJune 2013: Deaflympics set to have first ever Flame Relay for Sofia 2013 June 2013: Deaflympics GB

By Philip BarkerThe International Olympic Committee's (IOC) 127th Session will be the third time the Olympic family has gathered in Monaco, the smallest member of the Olympic Movement to host a full meeting of the IOC. This "Extraordinary" session at the Grimaldi Forum is for members to vote on President Thomas Bach's blueprint for the Olympic Movement  "Agenda 2020". Now, though, the troubled trail towards the Winter Olympics of 2022 seems certain to cast a long shadow. Stockholm were the first to withdraw followed by the Polish city of Krakow and Lviv in Ukraine. Oslo went through to the Candidate...

Turkey's first female Prime Minister Tansu Çiller joined Istanbul's team.

that year but many still remembered the Munich Games when terrorists killed 11 members of the Israeli team

These had competed as a "Unified team" at Albertville and Barcelona in 1992, but Ukraine and others now

Journal of Olympic History, has lectured at the National Olympic Academy and contributed extensively to Team

GB publications.

By Daniel Etchells at Queretaro Convention CentreSouth Korea's Daehoon Lee and Great Britain's Jade Jones were crowned Male and Female Players of the Year at the inaugural World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Gala Awards Dinner here tonight.

like to say a big thank you to everyone that voted for me and a special big thank you to everybody at GB

the Referee of the Year accolade, and South Korea's Young-in Bang, head coach of the Mexican national team

association and referee awards were chosen by a five-member Nomination Committee.The WTF World Cup Taekwondo Team

Association (BOA) has unveiled DFS, the UK's leading sofa manufacturer and retailer, as the official Team

GB homeware partner for Rio 2016.

DFS, and its 3,400 strong UK workforce, have pledged their support for Team GB athletes who will compete

Ian Filby, DFS chief executive, hopes the company's support can help Team GB reach the same heights at

GB, a team of extraordinarily hardworking and inspiring people."

At London 2012, Team GB inspired a nation with their commitment, endeavour and excellence.

"We hope our support can help Team GB reach the same heights at Rio 2016.

Paralympic Games.Who can forget the steely resolve of Sir Chris Hoy as he became the most successful GB

Games.Prior to Sydney 2000 I'd been to four Olympic Games as either manager or coach with the sailing team

I was Deputy Chef de Mission of the GB Olympic team in Sydney 2000 when we saw the first evidence of

GB and ParalympicsGB finishing third in the medal tables at London 2012 with an outstanding 65 and 120

He was Deputy Chef de Mission for the whole of Team GB at Sydney 2000.

By Daniel EtchellsThe British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced Deloitte as its official professional services provider leading up to Rio 2016.

be once again working with the BOA up to 2016; it is a strong statement of our enduring support of Team

GB," said David Sproul, chief executive and senior partner of Deloitte."

our offering as part of a global network, we will help the BOA negotiate the challenges of taking a team

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesFebruary 2013: BPA renews partnership with Deloitte through to Rio 2016 July 2011: Team

By Daniel EtchellsThe British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced four new additions to its Athletes' Commission following an election. 

thrower Goldie Sayers after their re-election to the post.Boateng is a member of Britain's basketball team

ImagesThe Athletes' Commission is an advisory group set up to ensure the viewpoint and interests of all Team

GB competitors are at the heart of everything the BOA does.It aims to represent the interests of past

Their role has been hugely important in assisting us in the support we provide to the team and I'm looking

I am sure we will use our knowledge and experience to help aspiring Olympians to gain personal and team

By Paul OsborneChannel 4 has awarded the production contract to its live coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games to Sunset+Vine.

Thanks to Channel 4's ongoing commitment to Para-sport, there is now a genuine appetite to follow the GB

team at the Rio Paralympics 2016, and the exciting performances and inspirational stories behind their

By Paul OsbornePentathlon GB has announced the creation of a series of academies across the UK which

Following success at the last four Olympic Games, which has seen Team GB secure five medals, including

academies to be given accreditation, following more than three years of preparations by Pentathlon GB

Murray also won the individual gold medal at the 2014 World Championships and silver in the team event

the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesSeptember 2014: Pentathlon GB

By Paul OsborneOlympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones has signed up with talent management company the M&C Saatchi Merlin agency, joining a roster which includes England football manager Roy Hodgson and former formula one world champion Nigel Mansell. 

Jones made history at London 2012 when she became the youngest ever Team GB gold medallist with victory

By Paul Osborne at the Snow Centre in Hemel HempsteadWinter Olympic stars Aimee Fuller and Jamie Nicholls were joined by snowboarding hopefuls here today as the Go Ski Go Board ambassadors gave a taster session into a sport that has been rocking since Sochi 2014.

see off the back of Sochi," said Fuller, who participated in the slopestyle snowboard discipline for Team

GB in Sochi."

for winter sports in the UK but among the freestyle side of  disciplines we've got a really strong team

By Paul OsborneLongstanding official Penny Briscoe has been named ParalympicsGB's Chef de Mission for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, it was announced today.

really because it's clearly an absolute honour and a bit of a dream come true to lead a ParalympicsGB team

I think it's a really exciting time for Paralympics GB and with the potential to be the most cohesive

and strongest support team we've ever fielded."

served as ParalympcsGB Chef de Mission at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games ©Getty ImagesTeam GB

By Paul OsborneGreat Britain's wheelchair rugby star Steven Brown held a talk with some of WheelPower's top supporters and donors to thank them for the impact they have made to the lives of disabled people.

WheelPower's Wheel Appeal, the chair that would later take him to London 2012, where he captained the Team

GB wheelchair rugby team.Brown used his time to express how sport can change the lives of the 1,200