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Channel 4 Paralympic coverage beats BBC's Olympic programmes to win Bafta for best sport and live event

  • London 2012 Paralympics

By Duncan MackayMay 12 - Channel 4's coverage of the Paralympics in London last year tonight won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) award for best sport and live event. 

nominated twice, once for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics and then again for "Super Saturday", when Team

GB won a record six gold medals.

Channel 4's team of Alex Brooker, Rachel Lathan, Deborah Poulton, Jamie Aitchison, Ade Adepitan, Gary

Paralympic Games at the Bafta Television Awards 2013It is the second BAFTA for the Channel 4 Paralympics team

creativity.One of the Paralympic presenters, Ade Adepitan, a member of Britain's wheelchair basketball team


Exclusive: British Boxing faces losing over £10 million UK Sport funding after Home Nations row

  • Boxing

By Tom DegunMay 11 - Boxing could lose over £10.4 million ($17.9 million/€12.8 million) of its funding in the lead up to the Rio 2016 Olympics due to the escalating row between the ruling body - the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA) - and the Scottish Amateur Boxing Association.

has come under-fire from the Scottish Amateur Boxing Association despite spearheading the successful Team

GB performance at London 2012 Scotland claim they want more say in running the sport and that the BABA


Olympic sailing champion Simpson dies in America's Cup training accident

  • Sailing

By Emily GoddardMay 10 - British Olympic sailing champion Andrew Simpson has been killed during a training session for the upcoming America's Cup when his vessel capsized in San Francisco Bay yesterday.

11-man crew when the catamaran overturned while performing a "bear-away" manoeuvre.Simpson, who was team

on the team's website.Artemis Racing chief executive Paul Cayard added: "The entire Artemis Racing team

Andrew Simpson was a great person, a terrific sailor, and a good friend to all of our team."

Our thoughts are with his family and the entire Artemis team."He will be dearly missed.

Andrew was a treasured and accomplished member of Team GB, both at the home Olympics in London 2012,


Tom Degun: AIBA's move towards professionalism starting to make a real impact

  • Inside the Blogs

in the growth, as has getting the UK on board in the form of the British Lionhearts was a must after Team

GB topped the medal table at the London 2012 Olympics.Another factor is the star-studded Ukraine Otamans

team, spearheaded by double Olympic champion Vasyl Lomachenko, widely considered one of the best boxers

Championship champion and turned down numerous professional offers to be part of the Ukraine Otamans - a team


British wheelchair tennis players Shuker and Reid qualify for Roland Garros

  • Wheelchair Tennis

By James CrookMay 9 - British wheelchair tennis players Lucy Shuker and Gordon Reid (pictured left) have secured their places at next month's event at Roland Garros, which will have two British players competing for the first time.

improving and testing myself on the clay in France will be an enjoyable challenge but first we've got World Team

Cup to look forward to and I want to help the GB girls to another medal this year."


Bayley strikes gold again at Slovenian Open

  • Table Tennis News

By James CrookMay 9 - Britain's London 2012 Paralympic table tennis silver medallist Will Bayley defeated Egypt's Sayed Youssef in straight sets at the Slovenian Open to claim his second Class 7 gold medal of 2013.

There was also success for Britain elsewhere as eight of their nine-man team reached the quarter-finals

Nine players from the GB Performance squad will compete in the team events.The medals for the team competition


British Cycling appoint new lead Paralympic coach

  • Cycling News

By James CrookMay 8 -  British Cycling have announced the appointment of GB Cycling assistant national

 GB Para-cycling team Performance Manager Gareth Sheppard said of Norfolk's appointment: "I'm really

coaching knowledge combined with his experience as an elite athlete makes him a great asset to the team


Philip Barker: Could cricket clear the Olympic boundary in 2024?

  • Inside the Blogs

to be insufficient entries for a competition, but in for the 1900 Games in Paris, an ambitious four team

The Dutch had already played at Lord's - in 1894 - so they were invited with Belgium but neither team

most famous and successful sportsman of his day, the great cricketer WG Grace.The French did raise a team

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

GB publications.


GB Canoeing appoint Pendleton coach Gardner to lead sprint programme

  • Canoeing

By James CrookMay 3 - GB Canoeing have appointed Scott Gardner, former coach of Olympic track cycling

silver medal at London 2012 and serving as a performance scientist for British Swimming as part of the team

2008 and 2012 Games.Throughout the previous Olympic cycle, Gardner also served as a coach mentor for GB

are continuing to Rio in 2016 and we are confident that Scott, working with our committed coaching team

I would like to thank John Anderson and his dedicated team for the opportunity to become part of a sport

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Reeves named as new British Short Track sponsor ahead of Sochi 2014

  • Skating

GoddardMay 2 - British Short Track has confirmed Reeves as its new commercial sponsor as the speed skating team

We are delighted to have a new sponsor in an Olympic year," GB Short Track performance director Stuart

Elise Christie is a strong medal hope for Team GB at the Sochi 2014 Olympics "It's great that Reeves

want to support the team," Christie said."

The sponsorship news comes as GB Short Track announced international children's charity Right To Play

Right To Play is delighted to announce this new partnership with the GB Short Track team and some of


Triple Olympian named as British Skeleton President with champion as vice-president

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

By Emily GoddardMay 2 - Triple Olympian turned Citigroup investment banker Michel de Carvalho has been named as the new President of British Skeleton with Vancouver 2010 champion Amy Williams joining the national governing body as its first vice-president.

Winter Olympics for 30 years when she claimed gold at Vancouver 2010 Williams, who is an Official Team

GB Ambassador for the Sochi 2014 Games, explained she was delighted to stay involved in skeleton after

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesFebruary 2013: Olympic skeleton champion Williams named as Sochi 2014 Team

GB ambassadorFebruary 2013: Rudman makes history as Britain's first female skeleton world championNovember


British Team Pursuit Olympic champions to ride for Wiggle Honda at London Nocturne

  • Cycling

By James CrookMay 1 - Great Britain's London 2012 gold-medal winning team pursuit trio of Laura Trott

, Joanna Rowsell and Dani King will compete for Team Wiggle Honda at the IG London Nocturne at Smithfield

Honda, owned and managed by 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Rochelle Gilmore, will make their UK team

impressive results this season thanks to the likes of three-time world champion Giorgia Bronzini.The team

as a team in the UK, in front of a massive British audience.Team Wiggle Honda will make their UK team

debut at the IG London Nocturne in June"This is a really big and important event for our team."

pursuit gold pushes Team GB up to third place in medal table


David Owen: As London 2012 remnants go under the hammer, Olympic spirit shines one last time

  • Inside the Blogs

items further down the list.But she proved unable to resist Lot 1, splurging £460 ($712/€546) on a Team

GB cycling jersey signed by Britain's most successful Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy.As we spoke, James Pugh

GB swimming trunks sold for £540No doubt some of us will continue to bang on about Olympic legacy long

a few years since that could be said at the home of Coventry's perennially underperforming football team

One buyer home with a giant stamp commemorating Team GB's cycling success.


Britain announces preliminary squad for Eurobasket Women 2013

  • Basketball

By James CrookApril 26 - New Britain coach Damian Jennings has announced his preliminary squad of 20 players for the Eurobasket Women, which is due to take place in France this June.

coach from Tom Maher last month, also includes two of the players he coached in Britain's under-20 team

assistant to Maher at last summer's Olympics.Great Britain will face France again at Eurobasket, the team

overtime at London 2012"With the early timing of EuroBasket, there will always be challenges but all the GB

story at [email protected] storiesMarch 2013: Jennings named head coach of GB

women's basketball team following funding boost


Tom Degun: Coe’s British Olympic Association already looks very different to how Moynihan's did

  • Inside the Blogs

arrived, Coe greeted us all and took to the top table with the new-look, six member BOA management team

Sebastian Coe and his management team have unveiled the BOA’s strategic plan for the next four years

Jan Paterson and commercial director Sophie Mason.Coe has clearly grown to trust his new mangement team

GB Chef de Mission at London 2012 despite little experience of such a position, never even having been

GB and ParalympicsGB at the briefing.Raising the £42 million ($66 million/€50 million) would make the