By Duncan MackayJuly 1 - Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates has paid tribute to Kate Lundy after she was today replaced as the country's Sports Minister by Don Farrell in a Cabinet reshuffle announced by returning Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

medals than the host nation and as a forfeit had to row the 2,200 metres length of Eton Dorney in Team

GB kit.

By James CrookJune 30 - Great Britain's men's and women's teams both retained their 100 per cent starts at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Frankfurt with wins over Belgium and Turkey respectively.

The men's team are on course to hold on to their European title after they made it three wins from three

as both teams went basket-for-basket before star man Gaz Choudhry came on to act as the catalyst for GB

score back to 60-51 in the third quarter to ensure a nervy finish for the in-form Britons.The British team

winsThe women's team also carried their momentum from their opening game demolition of Italy to show

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Prime Minister David Cameron playing some weird bongo drum device at Eton Dorney, as we waited for Team

GB sprint canoeist Ed McKeever to do his thing.Yes, I can be curmudgeonly, but let's just say it didn't

jersey at the 1995 World Cup rugby final in Johannesburg transformed a sporting occasion that the home team

the men following up their opening win over the hosts by defeating Switzerland 75-53 and the women's team

The men's team - unchanged from their opening day win over Germany - got off to a flier, taking a lead

Head Coach Haj Bhania also wants to see more from his team as the tournament progresses."

The Swiss played really well, they are a young up-and-coming team who we wish well in the rest of the

GB player Maddie Thompson said: "It was a fantastic performance to open up with, it gives us a good start

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By James CrookJune 28 - Great Britain avenged their defeat at London 2012 to beat host nation Germany at the wheelchair basketball European Championships in Frankfurt with a huge 74 -51 win in their opening game.

looked under serious threat from their opponents.The second quarter was much of the same as the visiting team

third, so much so that coach Haj Bhania rotated the squad to ensure valuable game time for the whole team

They played as a real team, they fought for each other and they really wanted it and I think that was

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Hannah Cockroft announced herself on the Paralympic athletics scene with a bang in 2010, when she pulled off the remarkable feat of breaking four world records at the British Wheelchair Athletics Association International, before going on to take world titles in the 100 metres and 200m T34 events at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Athletics Championships in Christchurch a year later as a fresh-faced 18-year-old.And all using a racing chair that was modified by her welder father in Halifax.

She, along with several other successful members of the Team GB squad from London 2012, including Olympic

By Emily Goddard at UK Sport in LondonJune 28 - British winter sport has been awarded a £443,200 ($675,000/€520,000) funding boost ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, UK Sport announced here today.

GB and ParalympicsGB's performances in Sochi will demonstrate progression from Vancouver [2010]."

GB - in the likes of freestyle skiing and snowboarding," said Hay, a former international curler who

GB at an Olympic Winter Games."

Today's boost for winter sports will also help us look to better Team GB and ParalympicsGB's performance

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By Duncan MackayJune 28 - London Lions will play their first basektball match in the Copper Box against Iowa University on August 14, it has been announced today.

million/$70 million) 7,500-capacity Copper Box last year and will be the first professional sports team

to get the ball rolling for what promises to be an exciting time for Lions basketball but also for GB

this venue can produce, it will be a fantastic place to watch London's only professional basketball team

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By James CrookJune 27 - A bicycle Flame Relay has been created for the 2013 Deaflympics in Sofia to raise awareness of deaf sports on the whole and highlight the importance of safe bicycle lanes to deaf cyclists in particular.

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By James CrookJune 26 - British Swimming national performance director Chris Spice and head coach Bill Furniss have set out their plans to get Britain delivering again in the pool after a disappointing campaign at London 2012, and will turn to two-time Olympic gold medallist to Rebecca Adlington to aid them.

The Great Britain team will travel to Barcelona for the International Swimming Federation (FINA) World

psychology not just focusing on pressure competition preparation but also what it means to be part of the team

and wearing the GB kit."

club in Milton Keynes, which will be headed by Great Britain captain Bobby White, who led the national team

rise of 40 per cent in school participation occurring since the Games last summer.And accordingly, the team

will coordinate a youth development programme as well as a senior team, and provide coaching in Buckinghamshire

reach neighbouring Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire as the club becomes more established.The elite team

GB Captain Bobby White will return to his hometown to be player-coach of the MK Oly Cats Handball ClubOlympic

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By Duncan MackayJune 24 - Fiona Brookes has been chosen as the Team GB Chef de Mission for this

Rome in 2001.Fiona's daughter Bethany Brookes will follow in her mother's footsteps and be part of the Team

GB squad for Sofia, hoping to win medals in tennis.

Bethany Brookes will be making her Deaflympics debut at Sofia in a British team where her mother, Fiona

GB is given every opportunity to do its utmost and bring those medals home."

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By Gary AndersonJune 24 - British Athletics has confirmed that world junior 200 metres champion Delano Williams can now compete for them after completing his transfer of allegiance from Turks and Caicos. 

Caribbean islands' status as a British Overseas Territory, he was previously eligible to compete for Team

GB at the Olympics."

pleased that my transfer of allegiance has been confirmed and I am excited to be aiming towards a British team

finished fifth at the UK 2012 Olympic Trials in June last year, missing out on securing a place on the team

Athletics performance director Neil Black said: "Delano is determined to earn a regular place on the team

By James CrookJune 24 - British Olympic rowing champion Katherine Grainger and Paralympic T42 200 metres gold medallist Richard Whitehead visited students at Southfields Academy in London to celebrate the start of National School Sport Week today. 

active, Lloyds TSB is helping a new generation to become active and potentially be the future stars of Team

GB and ParalympicsGB."

now playing more sport than before, with 1.8 million - 49 per cent - physically joining a new club or team

outside school and 2.1 million - 55 per cent - joining a new club or team in their school.Richard Whitehead

the London 2012 Olympic Games is an experience I will never forget.Those few weeks playing for the Team

GB women's hockey side at the magnificent Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park were truly magical and

can only be a good thing.Chloe Rogers is a field hockey player who won a bronze medal as part of the Team

GB women's side at London 2012.