By Paul OsborneDecember 9 - Canada has revealed the 10 athletes who are formally nominated onto the men's and women's teams for Sochi 2014.

The women's team will be led by four time Canadian champion and former world gold medallist Jennifer

with Jones since they were junior competitors and, in 2007, Dawn McEwen (formerly Askin) joined the team

, 2009 and 2010.In August 2010, Kaitlyn Lawes, a two-time Canadian junior champion skip, joined the team

The athletes nominated to the Sochi 2014 team are great athletes and I'm excited at the potential for

USA for Sochi 2014October 2013: Team GB announce men's curling team for Sochi 2014September 2013

By Paul OsborneDecember 9 - Global consumer goods company Procter & Gamble (P&G) will be British Paralympics' official nearest and dearest supporter for the upcoming Winter Games,it was announced today.

friends of athletes competing in the Paralympics in the build-up to and during the competition.The team

to the London Olympic and Paralympic Games and was designed to support the friends and families of GB

Penny Briscoe, Chef de Mission for Britian's Paralympic team at Sochi 2014, added: "Athletes are some

sponsor London 2012 Paralympic ball which is set to attract sporting stars and celebritiesJuly 2012: Team

GB house revealed with "nearest and dearest" at its heartApril 2012: Procter & Gamble campaign

By Nick ButlerDecember 7 - Members of the British team, including London 2012 gold medallist Jade Jones

Cook is the former world number controversially omitted from the British team for London 2012 and now

By Emily GoddardDecember 5 - German town Füssen has today been revealed as the host of the inaugural World Curling Federation (WCF) Olympic Qualification event this month.

Russia next February, but are likely to face tough competition from Olympian Thomas Dufour's French team

American rink and hosts Germany.Japan will have their sights firmly set on sending their first men's team

led by Peter de Boer, who will be going to Germany to secure Olympic qualification, while the Finnish team

way at European Curling ChampionshipsNovember 2013: Curlers become first athletes nominated to Team

USA for Sochi 2014 October 2013: Team GB announce men's curling team for Sochi 2014September 2013

By Gary AndersonDecember 5 - Britain's Paralympic judo silver medallist Sam Ingram has defended his title at the Visually Impaired European Championships in Eger, Hungary defeating Eduard Tropinov of the Ukraine in the men's under 90 kilograms final.

"The team spirit has been both good and professional and with the EJU (European Judo Union) involved

The GB performances were very good and on another day we could have, and probably will, come home with

For a vast majority of the team this was their first major VI event and all equipped themselves extremely

By Paul OsborneDecember 5 - The Intensive Training Centres (ITCs) for Swimming at Loughborough University and the University of Bath are set to become performance hubs as British Swimming seeks to bring about improvements in the sport.

London 2012 silver medallist Michael Jamieson at the University of Bath, one of the few successes for Team

GB swimmers at the Games ©Getty ImagesRenshaw set up the Intensive Training Centre in Bath in 2008 and

of new initiatives have been revealed by UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport (EIS) to help Team

GB achieve its aim of winning more Olympic and Paralympic medals at Rio 2016 than they did at London

closely together to offer an end-to-end service, include the creation of a performance solutions team

Sport chief executive Liz Nichol denied the two were linked.UK Sport has set the target of helping Team

GB win more medals at Rio 2016 than they did at London 2012 ©UK SportTo support the changes there have

science and speed and power development, have been appointed to support the performance solutions team

By Gary AndersonDecember 4 - Britain men's ice hockey captain Luke Piggott claims he and his teammates are heading to the Trentino 2013 Winter Universiade with realistic targets as the squad continue final preparations with one week left until the Opening Ceremony.

in Trentino, the 27-year-old has the extra honour of being the official flag bearer for the British team

in Canada before moving to the United Kingdom with his British parents at the age of nine, believes Team

GB will be one of the underdogs in the ice hockey tournament after being drawn in a tough group."

As long as we can play well together as a team then hopefully we can give ourselves a shot at keeping

With just one week until the Opening Ceremony I am pleased to report that Team GB are well prepared and

By Nick ButlerDecember 3 - Deputy director of performance solutions at the English Institute of Sport (EIS) Scott Drawer will take up a similar role in the Rugby Football Union (RFU), it was announced today. 

except the England senior elite player squad.This will include the under-20 and second string Saxons team

knowledge he has gained over his last 13 years at UK Sport.As the head of a research and innovation team

 The England Saxons team, pictured ahead of a match against Scotland A, will be among the teams

benefiting from Drawer's expertise ©Getty Images"After 12 years in the GB high performance Olympic and

been surrounded by world class people in UK Sport, the British Olympic Association and Paralympics GB

By Paul OsborneDecember 2 - British Olympic diver Tom Daley has revealed he is in a relationship with a man.

, Australia's Matthew Mitcham, the Beijing 2008 10m platform gold medallist.Others included Daley's Team

GB colleague Carl Hester, who won a gold medal at London 2012 in the team dressage.

Gary AndersonDecember 1 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has revealed the official print for Team

GB at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics which is called "Ice" and has been created by renowned artist Sir

By Paul OsborneNovember 28 - Britain's young boccia stars continued their fine form on the courts of Brazil today with all four players reaching the gold medal finals of the Paralimpíadas Escolares in São Paulo.

pick up where they had left off on Monday (November 25) when they had won their opening game 5-1.The team

secure their place in tomorrow's semi-final.There was not such good news, however, for the goalball team

that met São Paulo in the quarter-finals despite yesterdays agonising defeat.A tricky start saw the team

slumped to an 11-8 defeat after a flurry of late goals.Despite the defeat player Adam Knott says the team

It's been amazing, we've got to know a lot more people around the GB team - meeting the football guys

By Gary AndersonNovember 26 - Two of Britain's most successful ever Olympic coaches, Sir Dave Brailsford and Jurgen Grobler, have become the first to join UK Sport's Coaching Fellowship as Honorary Fellows, following an announcement at the organisation's World Class Performance Conference in Manchester.

track and on the road.Since taking up his role as performance director at British Cycling in 2002, Team

GB has established itself as the most successful cycling team in modern Olympic history winning 30 Olympic

2012 © Getty Images "Good coaching has been a crucial ingredient in the success of the GB

of Andrew Triggs Hodge, Peter Reed, Tom James and Alex Gregory were the sixth consecutive team to be

GB since Barcelona 1992 ©Getty Images "I am proud and delighted to be chosen by UK Sport as

By Paul OsborneNovember 23 - Double Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge has been named as rowing's Olympic Athlete of the Year for 2013 by the British Olympic Association (BOA) at a special dinner in Twickenham.

Triggs Hodge, Reed, Williams and Tom James, who was promoted to the team in place of Partridge, then

rowed to gold ahead of the Australian team to defend the Olympic title won by the British team at Athens

and claim the ultimate prize at Beijing.Triggs Hodge maintained his place in the coxless fours team

Andy is a powerful winner of this trophy from a strong GB Rowing team men's squad," British Rowing

up with new partner as GB Rowing World Cup squad is announcedAugust 2012: Mike Rowbottom - When

By Paul OsborneNovember 21 - A British contingent of 25 elite young disabled athletes will make its way to Brazil next week to compete in a major multiple sports event for promising young school aged children.

the Paralympics in 2016 so this will give them a taste of what life will be like should they make the team

Amongst those hoping to be a part of the Team GB at the 2016 Rio Games is 18-year-old Kieran Steer.Steer

not be the first time young athletes from Brazil and Britain have competed against each other after a team