By Paul OsborneFebruary 5 - Mike Reilly, chief executive of Goalball UK, has admitted he has been left "disappointed" by UK Sport's decision to withdraw the £1 million ($1.6 million/€1.2 million) worth of funding for the Paralympic discipline in the nation.

We are very disappointed with the decision to stop funding our GB women's team," he wrote in a statement

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

women team sport across both GB Olympic and Paralympic disciplines."

The women's team were knocked out at the quarterfinal stage of London 2012 following a "golden goal"

by Sweden ©Getty ImagesThe British women's goalball team had seen their funding almost quadrupled just

By Paul OsborneFebruary 5 - Patrick Baumann, secretary general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), has spoken out over UK Sport's decision to withdraw funding from Basketball in Britain, expressing his frustration.

their investment in basketball will happen but that this takes more time - as it does generally for team

Tokyo 2020".Many sports fans have turned to social media to hit out over UK Sport's decision including GB

circuit who feel UK Sport's "medal potential" investment system is unfair on those participating in team

It is clear that the UK Sport funding system does not work for team sports or emerging sports," added

GB men's team captain Drew Sullivan was highly critical of the decision, using Twitter to vent his frustration

The Great Britain team was comprised of four female skaters, from whom Mollie Phillips became the first

A Sierra Nevada snowstorm threatened to ruin the spectacle but as the Greek team marched in, the sun

Games will be held in the true Olympic spirit," they said.The  children announced the arrival of each team

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

GB publications.

most expensive and controversial Games in history.A lot of time, money and effort has gone into making Team

GB the best prepared and most ambitious ever to embark on such an expedition.

Salt Lake City in 2002.Rhona Martin (right) kept British eyes open into the early hours as she led her team

with not far off twice the number of personnel (96 at the last count) deployed to cover the Games than GB

By Zjan ShirinianFebruary 3 - British Olympic champion Zac Purchase has announced his retirement from rowing.

a future "sporting challenge".The 2006, 2010 and 2011 world champion said: "I have been part of the GB

rowing team for nearly a decade and during that time have shared a tremendously successful period with

I wish the British team well in their build up to the Rio Olympics and beyond."

By Paul OsborneFebruary 3 - Great Britain's Beijing Paralympic champion Sam Hynd has announced his retirement from swimming following a career that has spanned almost a decade.

Furber, national performance director for Para-Swimming, added: "Sam was an excellent member of the team

writer of this story at [email protected] stories:August 2012: Hynd brothers lead GB

By Paul OsborneJanuary 30 - The fate of British Basketball's funding is set to be sealed tomorrow as UK Sport, the body which awards public and National Lottery money to Britain's elite sports, meets to discuss the ongoing funding of the organisation.  

of the men, and top eight for the women.Although failing to meet these targets, performances by each team

record against the Czech Republic, who they finished level on points with during the group stages.The GB

place by 2020, and we base that on if you look at the improvement and achievements in the age group team

new Sport England figures that have come out, which put basketball number two to football in terms of team

social media to urge the body to back British Basketball in the build-up to Rio 2016 and beyond.Team GB

The Dynamo Moscow football team attracted huge crowds when they visited Britain.The Soviets did not send

a team to London in 1948, but in 1951, the IOC voted  overwhelmingly to welcome them into the fold in

Ritter Von Halt, an  IOC member in West Germany, "gives a solemn undertaking that a unified German team

event of a negative reply...North Korea would be entitled to participate in 1964 as an independent team

GB publications.

GB member in the Nordic events, was ecstatic after observing his achievement.

GB in the London OIympics there is a lot of talk of medal hopes for the team in Sochi - and none more

I wish everyone in the team lots of luck and hope that in just a small way the success of the team in

Rhona, who has reverted to her maiden name of Howie, following a divorce, agrees GB hopes are high when

Eve know each other well and faced each other only last week in in the Inter-Continental Cup, which GB

half a century, right back to 1956 when, at 22, he anchored the Australian men's 4x400 metres relay team

He actually voted against the Australian team attending the Moscow Games in 1980, although he acknowledged

movement, I would have taken a different position...I should have defended the right of the Australian team

Team GB at the moment seems to have unearthed the secret of Summer Olympic success.

[Our] flagship team [swimming] took us by surprise. In other sports we held up quite well..."

The Government understands how important the performance of the team is..."

of trying to beat the New Zealanders in a move that was designed to make a home gold for the men's team

silver medallists and - of course - the New Zealand gold medallists.Jürgen Gröbler, head coach of the GB

Rowing men's team, pictured during the London 2012 Olympics ©Getty ImagesPre-noise, Gröbler had described

direction, a run which began during the 20 years he spent as a coach with the all-conquering East German team

never had the strategy to have the eight as the number one boat - our aim is to develop a successful team

I have worked with the British team for many years, but the number of athletes has been only a few."

By Paul OsborneJanuary 25 - A Commonwealth Select team has appropriately come out on top of the International

The Scottish team, led by world 4x400 metres bronze medallist Eilidh Child, was the first to be separated

But results elsewhere left the home team bottom of the final points table, 13 behind the US.The British

team, minus Scotland, finished second overall with big wins for James Dasaolu and Asha Philips in the

photo finish in the 60m hurdles.Porter's wife Tiffany was unable to repeat her husband's success for GB

Britain's Shara Proctor won the women's long jump in a distance of 6.59 metres.Commonwealth Select team

British skier Emily Sarsfield has been forced to drop her legal fight against her omission from the team

select her reaching more than 4,000 signatures.Sarsfield was controversially left out of the 56-strong Team

world rankings.Emily Sarsfield has dropped her threat of legal action after being left out of the final Team

has gone into winter sport in the UK, it is expected that every athlete who ultimately competes for Team

GB is in a position to deliver a credible performance at the Games."

Team GB has named a record 19 athletes to its skiing and snowboarding squad for Sochi 2014, which begins

By Gary AndersonJanuary 24 – The British Olympic Association (BOA) has expressed its disappointment for skier Emily Sarsfield but is standing by its controversial decision to omit her from the Sochi 2014 squad, despite her threatening to take legal action against the organisation.

Sarsfield has been controversially left out of the 56-strong Team GB squad named for Sochi 2014, after

has gone into winter sport in the UK, it is expected that every athlete who ultimately competes for Team

GB is in a position to deliver a credible performance at the Games."

Team GB has named a record 19 athletes to its skiing and snowboarding squad for Sochi 2014.Contact the

GB announce men's curling team for Sochi 2014April 2013: Olympic gold winning coach named Team GB Chef

By Gary AndersonJanuary 23 - London 2012 champion Tim Baillie has announced his retirement from canoe slalom after he and partner Etienne Stott became the first British athletes to win Olympic gold in the sport.

particular.The gold medal winning duo were awarded MBEs in 2013 for their achievements ©Getty Images GB

first canoe slalom Olympic gold, while Hounslow and Florence take silverApril 2012: British canoeing team