By Gary AndersonGreat Britain's Olympic champion Nicola Adams suffered a first defeat in more than two years as she lost out to Bulgarian Stoyka Petrova at the quarter-final stage of the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC) Women's Boxing Championships in Bucharest, Romania.

of Russia and Frenchwoman Estelle Mossely.Taylor's compatriot Joanne Lambe will not be joining her team

Taylor and Shields also write historyOctober 2011: Adams wins historic gold at European Championships as GB

By Paul OsborneGreat Britain has announced its team for the upcoming Inas Open European Athletics Championships

The GB team is ready for success at the Championships; the team has demonstrated their ability to deliver

I wish all the GB team the best of luck."

The GB team was selected by the UK Sports Association for People with Learning Disability,a national

I am delighted to have been chosen as part of the GB team," she said."

The GB team is led by team manager and head coach Paul Burns, along with coaches Christine Galloway and

Intu Trafford Centre in ManchesterThe kit to be worn by more than 650 athletes and staff members of Team

Olympic gold medallist and three-time Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Sir Steve Redgrave joined Team

It has been designed in partnership with the Kukri design team and the athletes."

Today marks the beginning really of everyone coming together as a single team."

Today is the moment that you actually see the embodiment of a single team coming together, so for us

GB at London 2012, claimed  the close partnership between designers and athletes was a key part of choosing

By Nick ButlerVancouver 2010 Olympic skeleton champion Amy Williams has become the first female athlete to be inducted into the University of Bath's new Hall of Fame for Sport.

Jamieson and modern pentathlete Samantha Murray, as well as Yarnold and other members of the skeleton team

: A week to remember in BrasovFebruary 2013: Olympic skeleton champion Williams named as Sochi 2014 Team

GB ambassadorMay 2012: Winter Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams retires from sportDecember 2011: Britain's

Team games fared no better.

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

GB publications.

By Paul OsborneGreat Britain's wheelchair fencers have recorded their best ever medal haul at a World Cup event after securing a silver and two bronze in Lonato, Italy.

Just three GB athletes made the trip to Italy, with Piers Gilliver, Gemma Collis and Dan Smith having

haul in preparation for next month's European Championships in Strasbourg.Gilliver led the way for the team

world junior title in Drzonków, Poland - where she won the senior European title last July - with the team

home athlete Anna Maliszewska.Britain's trio of Francesca Summers, Jo Muir and Alice Fitton earned the team

medallist, Anastasiya Spas of Ukraine.For the 18-year-old Summers, the youngest member of the British team

impressive achievement, coming just a week after she won individual bronze and helped the Pentathlon GB

team to team gold at the World Youth A Championships in Budapest.It was Summers who went into the run

By Gary Anderson at Aggreko UK in DumbartonThe power behind this year's Commonwealth Games was on show here at the global manufacturing headquarters of Aggreko in Dumbarton, as Glasgow 2014 chairman Lord Smith of Kelvin was given a tour of the facility that is producing the equipment to drive the Games this summer.

Aggreko's manufacturing and production.Aggreko interim chief executive Angus Cockburn led Lord Smith and Team

GB men's curling skip David Murdoch, who guided his side to silver at Sochi 2014, on a trip around the

By Mike RowbottomThe shape of British Rowing's challenge at the Rio 2016 Games became clearer today with the naming of its first ever senior squad for the European Championships.

the forthcoming European Championships in Serbia ©Getty ImagesThe 6ft 7in Molesey BC athlete won the GB

years away, men's head coach Jurgen Grobler has switched top billing back to the four.In the women's team

Championships ©Getty Images"We are in an enviable position with our open women's squad," said Sir David Tanner, GB

Cook, Matt Gotrel, Mat Tarrant, Phil Congdon and Scott Durant.The third finishers in the pairs at the GB

By Paul OsborneOlympic gold medallist Heather Stanning has been ruled out of the European Rowing Championships in Belgrade later this month following medical advice.

Rowing Team squad after a post-Olympic year spent on active duty with the British Army including a tour

Rowing Team Senior Trials.Despite the victory, Stanning has shown some signs of fatigue in training

Rowing Team performance director."

I am clearly disappointed not to be travelling with the team to Belgrade for the Europeans and I wish

Rowing TrialsAugust 2012: Home celebrations as rowers Glover and Stanning earn Team GB maiden gold medal

By Nick ButlerFindings of a report claiming Scottish athletes could choose whether to represent Scotland or Great Britain at Rio 2016, if the country votes for independence later this year, have been questioned by International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Sir Craig Reedie.

challenges to putting in place the necessary support to entice athletes currently training within the Team

GB infrastructure to compete for Scotland, specifically with team sports."

"As part of Team GB, Scotland has the chance to shine on the global stage," a spokesman told the BBC.

As the vice-president of the IOC has said, setting up a new Olympic team in a matter of months that is

GB.

By Mike RowbottomBritish Rowing's pursuit of medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics - and beyond - will be boosted by analytic data on athletes' performance provided by SAS, which has signed a three-year deal with the sport's governing body.

available data, enhancing crew and individual training programmes and other aspects of preparation so the team

can peak for key events.Sir David Tanner, performance director of the GB Rowing team, said: "Performance

is absolutely key to everything we do with the GB Rowing Team because on the international stage, small

These, posted prominently on the wall, indicate the record number of medals won by Team GB respectively

hers has been a necessary ruthlessness.UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl believes the results of Team

GB at London 2012 justified her tough "no compromise" approach ©ITG In an exclusive interview with insidethegames

This is a good time for women in sport," says Nicholl, pointing out that there were more GB female medalists

By Mike RowbottomRhona Martin has appealed for the return of the Olympic gold medal she won at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games, which has been stolen from a museum in Dumfries, Scotland.

gold won at the inaugural 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix by fellow Scot William Jackson, who skipped a team

directly appeal to those who have taken this to return it," said Martin, who coached Eve Muirhead's Team

GB rink to bronze at this year's Sochi Winter Olympics."

GoddardApril 30 - World number one Rob Davies has been named to lead a 14-strong British Para table tennis team

in the men's class six singles, as did Aaron McKibbin, who secured silver in the men's class eight team

Davies heads list of British stars heading for National ChampionshipsNovember 2013: Gold medal haul for Team

GB in Para table tennis Belgian OpenOctober 2013: After London 2012 disappointment Davies rises to become

world number one October 2013: Davies duo take team gold on final day at European Championships