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Exclusive: Fewer than one in 10 of Britain’s London 2012 Olympic medallists were Scots-born

  • News

By David OwenMarch 4 - Fewer than 10 per cent of Great Britain's medallists at the London 2012 Olympics were born in Scotland, analysis by insidethegames has shown.

team's outstanding tally of 65 Olympic medals, just 11 were Scots-born.For the sake of comparison, nine Team

GB medallists were born outside the British Isles completely and a further seven, including Jade Jones



Independence would break up Olympic teams, warns Scottish Secretary Carmichael

  • Olympics

By Emily GoddardMarch 2 - Alistair Carmichael, the Scottish Secretary, has warned that Scotland's independence would break up "a host of great British institutions" including its Olympic teams.

Independence campaign will not overshadow Glasgow 2014 promises Commonwealth Games MinisterOctober 2013: Team

GB announce men's curling team for Sochi 2014March 2012: Commonwealth Games will put Scotland on the


First ever university-level Wheelchair Basketball Championships to be held in Britain

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

By Nick ButlerFebruary 28 - An inaugural wheelchair basketball competition for students will be held at the University of Worcester this weekend in a latest attempt to boost participation levels in the sport.

University of Worcester to be base for British wheelchair basketball teams July 2013: Help for Heroes team

set for Copper Box exhibition match with GB wheelchair basketball squads


World and Olympic champions help open revamped Lee Valley White Water Centre

  • Canoeing

By Emily GoddardFebruary 27 - World and Olympic champion canoeists, including the likes of David Florence, Richard Hounslow, Etienne Stott and Tim Baillie, have today helped open the revamped Lee Valley White Water Centre following its £6.3 million ($10.5 million/€7.7 million) development.

the centre now includes a British Canoeing slalom performance centre for its athletes and coaching team

chairman of the British Canoe Union, also claimed the Lee Valley White Water Centre "will help to enable GB

England will also help support upcoming talent and ensure that we have the breadth and depth with the GB

2013: Olympic venue Lee Valley to host first event of 2014 ICF canoe slalom World CupDecember 2013: GB


Sochi 2014: Report February 24

  • Live

Maurits Hendriks, Chef de Mission of the Netherlands team, tweets his reaction.

Sochi 2014 highlights from the more partisan contingent of the insidethegames team..."

GB Winter to push on from - well done guys.- British Olympic Association chairman Sebastian Coe congratulates

Speaker greeted the team, MPs sang national anthem!

pursuit is that all the Dutch skaters are in one team, so they can only win one medal



Goalball UK set to appeal funding cut

  • Goalball News

announced that it will appeal UK Sport's decision to withdraw the funding for the women's goalball team

of goallball UK added: "We are very disappointed and surprised by the decision to stop funding our GB

Women's team."

In London 2012 our women just missed out on a medal and were the second most successful competing GB

Women team sport across both Olympic and Paralympic sports."

and individual improvements and moved the team from 15th to 13th in the world rankings."



Sochi 2014: Report February 21

  • Sochi 2014 Olympic Games Live Blogs

sport this evening ©Toronto Star/Getty Images23:15 Canada are also bidding to one all four team sport

"The atmosphere in the team was very bad.

CONI adds that it replaced Frullani on its four-man bobsled team with Samuele Romanini."

is essentially because there are very few Russian supporters and cries of "Go Canada go" and "C'mon GB

GB are guaranteed a fourth Sochi 2014 medal, their best performance since 1924.14:46 Marielle Thompson


Northern Ireland announce leadership team for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

  • Glasgow 2014

Ireland Commonwealth Games Council (NICGC) today announced the senior leadership staff that will lead the team

The five-strong team will be led by former international shooter Robert McVeigh, who will act as Chef

I have total faith in the selected leadership team in putting together a programme for members of Team

Our team is excited in our support of athletes and their coaches, as they compete for medals."

at Delhi 2010.Crothers, who spent 25 years working with BBC Sport, will act as general team manager

GB at London 2012.Team Northern Ireland finished 13th on the medal table at Delhi 2010 which saw the



Tributes paid to Turkish athlete who died during taekwondo tournament

  • Taekwondo

By Paul OsborneFebruary 18 - Title winners at an international taekwondo competition in Egypt have dedicated their victories to Turkish athlete Seyithan Akbalik after the youngster died following a suspected cardiac arrest during a match on Sunday (February 16).

I think I speak for everyone on the GB team who fought after what happened that every fight was dedicated

However, all the Turkish team made it quite clear he would have wanted us to fight on."

It is a sad time for the sport and on behalf of the GB team, as well as British Taekwondo and its members

sincere condolences to the family of Seyithan Akbalik and all those close to him," a spokesperson for GB

triumphing over local favourite Ghofran Zaki to secure gold in the men's under 68kg event.The strong British team


British Judo club opens at Camp Bastion military base

  • Judo

By Paul Osborne February 18 - A member of the Royal Air Force (RAF) has formed the first known British Judo club aimed exclusively at serving personnel, including civilians and coalition forces, at an operational base in Afghanistan.

winning bronze medals in both the US and Canadian Opens in 2002 before securing silver at the European Team

Championships in 2003, alongside her GB team-mates.She is the current chairman of RAF Judo for the British

In my role as combined services team manager and chair of RAF Judo for the association, I have been trying


Sochi 2014: Report February 18

  • Sochi 2014 Olympic Games Live Blogs

37 So a busy day 11 at Sochi comes to an end – just how we like it.Sven Kramer was humbled by Dutch team-mate

won in men's giant slalom, biathlon mixed relay, women's bobsleigh, women's and men's cross country team

firmly fixed on the Bolshoy Ice Dome, where Russia's men face Norway in a play-off to decide which team

She was discharged yesterday (February 17) following a restful night.After being examined by Team GB

medical staff, the determination was made by Cheshire, Team GB chief medical officer Niall Elliott and