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Oliver Brown to tailor make Team GB formalwear for Sochi 2014

  • Sochi 2014

By Emily GoddardAugust 22 - Oliver Brown will provide tailor-made formalwear for the Team GB delegation

logo on the outside pocket, a Union Flag on the inner pocket and Team GB neck hanger."

Following the outstanding success of Team GB in the London 2012 Olympic Games, I am absolutely thrilled

GB."

2014," Team GB Chef de Mission for Sochi Mike Hay said."

GB Chef de Mission for Sochi 2014February 2013: Andy Hunt - Most competitive winter Team GB ever


England women's football coach fired after disastrous European Championship campaign

  • Football

By James CrookAugust 20 - Long-standing England women's football head coach Hope Powell has been relieved of her duties by the Football Association (FA) after overseeing the worst performance at a European Championships for twelve years this summer.

who also managed the British women's side at London 2012, had been at the helm since 1998 and led the team

form and unfit for the European Championship.The FA are now hoping to appoint a replacement women's team

GB football squad at future Olympics April 2012: London 2012 will raise profile of women's football

, believes GB coach PowellApril 2012: Bring on Brazil, declares buoyant British women's football

coach Powell October 2011: Exclusive - Pearce and Powell set for Team GB football roles in London


US Amateur champion Fitzpatrick to lead Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup challenge

  • Golf

By Gary AndersonAugust 19 - Newly crowned US Amateur champion Matt Fitzpatrick will be looking to continue his fantastic year so far as he leads his Great Britain and Ireland teammates into battle against the USA in the 44th Walker Cup taking place in Southampton, New York on September 7 and 8.

Oliver Goss at the Brookline Country Club.The man from Sheffield is one of seven English players on the GB

in January of this year.British Amateur champion Garrick Porteous is one of seven Englishman on the GB

up the English contingent on the Walker Cup team.

of winning two years ago is sure to be an asset to GB and Ireland as they tee-off at the National Golf

," said GB and Ireland captain Nigel Edwards."


London 2012 cycling centre set to open next March

  • London 2012

By James Crook at Lee Valley VeloPark on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in LondonAugust 15- Cyclists will be able to take advantage of "the world's best cycling venue" from March next year when the home of the Velodrome and BMX track used at London 2012 opens its doors to the public here in just over six months' time.

same track where Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton, Laura Trott and Dame Sarah Storey romped home for Team

GB and Paralympics GB last summer."



Athletes will suffer if we boycott Sochi 2014, warns British athlete body

  • Sochi 2014

By Emily GoddardAugust 13 - The British Athletes Commission (BAC) has warned that it will be the athletes who suffer if a Sochi 2014 boycott goes ahead in the wake of the contentious Russian anti-gay bill, but insisted it will "stand up" for its members as tensions grow.

Sochi 2014 represents the final goal for the GB team after four years of sacrifice and commitment."


Nick Butler: Great Britain's basketball team get the "box that rocks" rocking again

  • Inside the Blogs

last summer when I watched - blissfully ignorant but captivated nonetheless - as Britain's handball team

During the exhibition match against the United States "Dream Team" in Manchester last summer every kind

GB" bandwagon can only have been impressed.Roger Moreland was another to applaud the afternoon's work

Yet with the news that the Copper Box will host the London Lions team next season Moreland sees this

With funding and a central venue secured, participation levels soaring, a national team on the rise and


British basketball on target in Olympic Park return

  • Basketball

at the Copper Box on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in LondonAugust 11 - Britain's basketball team

took place in a raucous and partisan atmosphere once again, as every offence and defence by the home team

On getting 50 caps for his country, he added: "It's a great feeling, from being a rookie on the team

afternoon of Olympic, Paralympic and recreational level basketballThe afternoon began with a youth team

match between two under-11 sides before an engaging mixed-team wheelchair basketball contest between

Britain and a Help for Heroes side.The international class of Team GB ultimately prevailed in a 32-14


British basketball team train at new Football Association centre ahead of Puerto Rico test

  • Basketball

By Nick ButlerAugust 7 - Great Britain's men's basketball team have been preparing for their match against

last year, this marks the first time they have been used for a sport other than football.Britain's team

2012 at the re-opened Copper Box against 2011 Pan American champions Puerto Rico on Sunday (August 11).GB

Nobbs after a joint training session at St George's ParkWarwick Cann, British Basketball's National Team

to eventual minor medallists Spain and Russia, as well as Brazil and Australia.Britain's basketball team

2012 survivors.New head coach Joe Prunty remains confident and has taken the opportunity to promote GB


London 2012 sailing venue to get permanent Olympic rings monument

  • London 2012

By Gary AndersonAugust 7 - The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) will receive a permanent reminder of London 2012 through the installation of a set of Olympic rings, the Paralympic Games Agitos symbol and a specially carved commemorative Portland stone.

silver medals, including an historic fourth gold medal for Sir Ben Ainslie.Sir Ben and the rest of his Team

GB Olympic and Paralympic teammates will have their names permanently etched into the special Portland


London 2012 finalists through to last four at 2013 CPISRA Intercontinental Cup

  • Football News

By Gary AndersonAugust 6 - Reigning Paralympic seven-a-side football champions Russia eased through to the semi-finals of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) Intercontinental Cup in Barcelona, where they will be joined by London 2012 runners-up Ukraine, along with Ireland and Brazil.

victories of Ireland, England and Venezuela.Second place in Group B went down to the wire and saw the Irish team

secure a quarter-final spot.The defeat saw the elimination of the English side, meaning Lyndon Lynch's team

of goal with a 6-0 win over the US, and the Samba Boys are yet to concede a goal.Meanwhile, another team

football squad announced for cerebral palsy Intercontinental CupMay 2012: Exclusive - England team

gave us boost to beat US, says GB manager Lynch at World Cup football eventMarch 2011: Ireland


Alan Hubbard: More women are stalking sport's corridors of power than ever before

  • Inside the Blogs

GB at London 2012, finishing third overall in the medals table And until recently UK Sport had a female

GB.

In a total of 542 British athletes 262 - 48 per cent of the team - were women.Then first medal for Team

GB at London was a woman - road cyclist Lizzie Armitstead and the first gold was from women rowers Heather

Sport England, British Cycling, British Taekwondo, the British Wrestling Association, Goalball UK and GB


Record number of youngsters riding bikes, claims British Cycling

  • Cycling

By Nick ButlerAugust 6 - Success by the likes of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Laura Trott have inspired record numbers of youngsters to get on their bikes in the past year, according to figures announced today by British Cycling.

sport.Laura Trott and Jason Kenny have won five Olympic titles between them and both graduated into the GB

team from Go-Ride clubsAlmost 250 Go-Ride events took place throughout 2012, compared to 386 already


James Crook: Hydrospeeding with Britain's Olympic canoeing heroes year on from London 2012

  • Inside the Blogs

their way around the course, followed by compatriots Richard Hounslow and David Florence who made it a GB

one-two and took the silver medal in what became GB Canoeing's most successful Olympic campaign.I joined

sensible, good, functioning venue for many groups of users, people from the very elite end - like the GB

Baillie's team-mate Stott added: "A year ago today we were coming down with our minds focused

We don't have a great deal to do right now as we've withdrawn from the team but that means we're going


Help for Heroes team set for Copper Box exhibition match with GB wheelchair basketball squads

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

By James CrookJuly 30 - British charity Help for Heroes will be represented by a team made up of wounded

servicemen and veterans in an exhibition match against members of the GB wheelchair basketball squads

basketball team's warm-up game for September's EuroBasket in Slovenia against Puerto Rico on August 11.GB

against a GB selection team in front of such a crowd."

H4H and Battle Back have done so much to support me on my journey to compete for GB at the recent European

GB team through their paces."

The exhibition match between the Help for Heroes team and the GB wheelchair basketball squad is due to