By Nick ButlerJanuary 23 - Podium contenders Kelly Gallagher and Jade Etherington are among a 10-strong Alpine skiing squad unveiled by the British Paralympic Association (BPA) as they target their first ever gold medal at the Winter Paralympics in March.

Cup circuits already this season, the visually-impaired duo Gallagher and Etherington will lead the team

with the International Paralympic Committee.Heather Mills is the obvious absentee from the British team

, Paralympics GB Chef de Mission Penny Briscoe described it as "fitting that my first important task

of our team launch event is to announce the Alpine skiers here today."

"I am confident that I will be leading a team in Sochi with some of the best prepared athletes that have

By Gary AndersonJanuary 22 - Six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy and Paralympic sprint champion Richard Whitehead have been announced as Nissan ambassadors and will be part of the company's #UniteAnd Excite campaign in the build up to Rio 2016.

I'm hugely excited to be a part of Nissan's Team GB and ParalympicsGB partnership," said 11-time world

two at London 2012, as well as a silver at Sydney 2000.Nissan is the official automotive partner of Team

UniteAndExcite campaign ahead of the forthcoming Sochi Winter Games laying out our commitment to supporting Team

GB and ParalympicsGB over the next two-and-a-half years."

[email protected] StoriesApril 2013: Nissan unveiled as top-level sponsor of Team

Which is why the combined forces of UK Sport and the British Olympic Association have ensured that Team

GB are armed to the teeth with the best available ammunition when they depart for Sochi with the aspiration

Team GB's athletes have been set an ambitious medals target for Sochi ©Getty ImagesThe target is three

GB would need nuclear weapons to break into the top 10 of Winter Games nations.

How long, we wonder before team snowball fighting becomes an Olympic event?

By Paul OsborneJanuary 20 - The Jamaican bobsleigh team will be making their way to the Sochi Winter

The team, which will be piloted by 46-year-old Winston Watts with Marvin Dixon as brakeman, were unsure

It is the first time in 12 years that the Jamaican team has qualified for the bobsleigh event having

gained international fame when they qualified for Calgary 1988 with a team of four men who had very

Olympic Games.The result also secured a place in the two-man event for Deen following worries that GB

Saturday.In the women's two-man competition, pilot Paula Walker and new brakeman Sarah Adams secured GB

Rather than shirk under the pressure of expectation generated by Britain's success at London 2012, Team

GB should embrace the pressure to deliver at Sochi 2014, claimed former Olympic champion Robin Cousins

No it shouldn't," said Cousins, who will be combining his Team GB Ambassador role with his media work

©Getty Images Cousins was speaking here today at Adidas UK offices in Stockport, where the official Team

GB Sochi 2014 kit was launched.Among the athletes getting kitted out were figure skaters Nick Buckland

champion Cousins named as Team GB ambassador Sochi 2014February 2013: Olympic skeleton champion Williams

named as Sochi 2014 Team GB ambassadorFebruary 2013: Making Hay while the sun doesn't shine - BOA winter

By Paul OsborneJanuary 18 - Scottish badminton star Kirsty Gilmour has withdrawn from the GB badminton

"I have decided to temporarily withdraw from the GB World Class Programme (WCP) in order to commit fully

"But I still have aspirations to make Team GB in the Rio [2016] Olympics."

I am working with the best possible coach and I have a fantastic support team through the sportscotland's

opportunity to move my career forward on the world stage and after that I can look forward to helping Team

GB in Rio."

By Paul OsborneJanuary 17 - Two-time European Tour champion Jamie Spence has been named as golf team

My aim is to go to Rio and help the team win a gold medal."

©Getty ImagesSpence, who enjoyed a 20-year career on the European circuit, was part of the backroom team

last two Ryder Cup victories at Celtic Manor and Medinah, assisting with clothing, hotel rooms and team

men's side and the women's side will be closely watched and we look forward to taking a strong British team

By Gary AndersonJanuary 16 - The search for up to 1,000 volunteer "Champions" for the 2014 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics European Championships  in Swansea is set to be launched on January 30.

I can think of nothing more rewarding than helping the athletes in Team GB fulfilling their quest to

By Gary AndersonJanuary 16 - Former Olympic 400 metre hurdles champion Sally Gunnell has signed up to become a brand ambassador for dairy and nutrition firm First Milk.

to motivate 600 girls at GSA Girls Go Gold conferenceMarch 2011: Britain unveils sporting legends as Team

GB AmbassadorsOctober 2009: New grass roots scheme launched by Sally Gunnell

By Gary AndersonJanuary 16 - The University of Bath will host the 2015 Modern Pentathlon European Championships, which will see more than 100 athletes competing in the first international event in the sport since London 2012, it was announced today. 

2015 ©Getty Images University of Bath graduate Samantha Murray, who retained the women's team

gold title at the World Championships in Chinese Taipei back in August along with team mates Mhairi

Murray, Spence and French will be defending their European team gold in Bath from last year's Championships

opportunity for Britain's pentathletes to try to achieve the Olympic qualifying standard," said Pentathlon GB

crown while its double gold for Lithuania at modern pentathlon World ChampionshipsJuly 2013: Pentathlon GB

15 - National Basketball Association (NBA) All Star Luol Deng is set to return to the Great Britain team

are important, are very important, and it's a big year for Lu, so we know how committed Lu is to the GB

missed last year's EuroBasket Finals in Slovenia due to meningitis but is confident he can join the team

I'm eager to get back in that GB jersey and on the road to Rio 2016."

Trail Blazers centre Joel Freeland had already confirmed his commitment.The pair were missing from the team

againAugust 2013: British basketball on target in Olympic Park returnAugust 2013: British basketball team

By Paul Osborne January 9 - British Olympic silver medallist and former world number one Heather Fell has announced her retirement from modern pentathlon in order to pursue a career in the media.

GB squad for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Following her silver medal at the Olympics, Fell topped off 2008

gold at the 2009 European Championships in Germany, a 2009 World Cup silver in China, and team silver

GB for the 2012 Olympic Games – the two available spots were given to Mhairi Spence and Samantha Murray.Since

rowing bronze medallist Stephen Rowbotham and double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes.Pentathlon GB

insidethegames.biz Related storiesMay 2013: Olympic silver medallist Fell named Special Olympics GB

By Gary AndersonJanuary 8 - Glasgow 2014 has announced the Village Ceremonies at this year's Commonwealth Games will be created and performed by the National Youth Theatre (NYT).

the Village Ceremonies, which include the Opening of the Athletes' Village, the Farewell Ceremony and Team

The National Youth Theatre created and performed the Team Welcome Ceremonies at London 2012 ©Getty Images

National Anthem at the Beijing 2008 Closing Ceremony before the theatre company went on to create the Team

is our moment to shine claims Glasgow 2014 boss as Commonwealth Games year beginsAugust 2012: GB

By Gary AndersonJanuary 6 - Briton Sam Weale has called time on his career as a modern pentathlete after more than ten years competing at the highest level, which saw him appear at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games.

Championships in London a year later as he and partner Nick Woodbridge finished fourth in the team

  "The men's team is looking absolutely fantastic at the moment and it's nice to see the achievements

One of my biggest regrets is not winning a team medal, but hopefully there are a lot of team medals in

the men's team now."

education and works as a mathematics, science and sport teacher at Dulwich Prep School in London.Pentathlon GB

By Paul OsborneJanuary 3 - The six figure skaters travelling to Sochi 2014 next month as part of Team

GB have all been included in the squad set to compete in the European Figure Skating Championships taking

unveils six figure skaters for Sochi 2014December 2013: Teams announced for inaugural figure skating team