Duncan MackayApril 10 - IMG Licensing have been given the job of cashing in on the success of Team

GB at London 2012, where Britain produced their best Olympic performance for 104 years by finishing

items bearing the Team GB and ParalympicGB marks available to consumers, it is claimed.

  Our Greatest Team store at Westfield Stratford City shopping centre helped Team GB kit become

Driven by the success of Team GB at London 2012, interest and support for the Team GB brand has never

Post-Games, research indicated that awareness of the Team GB brand throughout the UK was at a 99 per

cent level, which illustrates the strength of the Team GB brand and its potential for the future."

announced 11 of the 12 British players that will compete at the BNP Paribas wheelchair tennis World Team

The 21-year-old British number one Gordon Reid is part of the men's team- captained by Karen Ross- who

Jordanne Whiley, who won bronze at London 2012 together in the doubles, are both included in the women's team

along with Louise Hunt, with Katie O'Brien given the role of captain.In the quad team, world number

We have selected our strongest team again this year and we will use the fantastic efforts of the Aegon

GB Davis Cup team this weekend as inspiration to challenge for even more medals in Antalya."

By Tom Degun at City Hall in LondonApril 8 - Mayor of London Boris Johnson has launched the 2013 Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four here today, which will be staged in the UK for the first time ever next month when it visits The O2.

following the London 2012 Olympic Games where NBA superstar Luol Deng of the Chicago Bulls starred for the Team

GB men's side.A further boost came after British Basketball were awarded £7,039,840 ($10,721,676/€8,254,082

venue on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.British basketball star Pops Mensah-Bonsu, who was part of the Team

GB side at London 2012 and currently plays for Spanish side Cajasol Sevilla, believes brining the Euroleague

British Basketball to receive £7 million funding for Rio 2016August 2012: Milton Keynes basketball team

named by British Weight Lifting as their new performance director and has been charged with leading the team

year-old was born in South Africa but grew up both in Scotland and England and therefore represented Team

GB at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.He also achieved the rare feat of representing both England and Scotland

following a promising performance at London 2012 Yule takes over a promising Olympic weightlifting team

display that saw her take the British record with a clean and jerk lift of 121.0 kg.The Paralympic team

MackayApril 1 - Tony Larkin, controversially axed as manager of England and Great Britain blind football team

experience of working with visually impaired athletes, from grassroots level to leading our Paralympic GB

doubt in my mind that he will be a great ambassador for the charity as well as a valuable asset to our team

coach of the England and Britain blind football teams by the Football Association in January after the team

[email protected] storiesJanuary 2013: England and Great Britain blind football team

By Duncan MackayMarch 31 - Britain's women's wheelchair basketball team will face tough competition

It will be a good test for the team and allow us to see where we are in terms of competition since the

and hope that the public will continue to show their enthusiasm and support for the game and for the GB

women's team as they did last summer."

By Mike RowbottomThere is a familiar sense of routine to the year for Craig Pickering right now as he prepares for another summer as a top class sprinter. Beyond it, however, there now lies a sense of rising excitement as this 26-year-old looks forward to resuming his other sporting life - as a member of the British Bobsleigh squad aspiring to Olympic medals at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.Pickering, from Crawley in Sussex but now based with the Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club, has already achieved more than most athletes would hope for in their career.

Craig Pickering (left) blows it for the Great Britain relay team at the Beijing 2008 Olympics It was

Malcolm Arnold as he did his degree at the University of Bath -  was picked for the sprint relay team

World Championships I was only two hundredths of a second slower than the GB1 two-man bob when I pushed GB

This four-man bob started as a crew and they are now a team.

And our GB 3 and GB 4 teams are under-23 – we also have our eye on Pyeongchang in five years' time.

By Tom DegunMarch 31 - Brendan Purcell, the new performance director at British Triathlon, says he is looking to help top athletes such as Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee stay head of their international rivals in the lead up to Rio 2016.

The team and I need to provide them with the right tools so that can get to where they need to go."

I am in a lucky position where I can ask questions of the team that is in place and challenge them to

joins British Triathlon after a hugely successful London 2012 with the BCU where he led the coaching team

supporting the successful medal-winning GB sprint team, including Ed McKeever, who won gold in the K

my legs felt pretty good throughout.Then it was back to Majorca again, this time with almost all the GB

Para-Cycling team.

spring done and dusted and now it's into the meaty part of my training block, as I aim to make England's team

By Duncan MackayMarch 29 - The British Lionhearts were tonight crushed 5-0 by Mexico Guerreros at their fortress, Foro Polanco, enabling the hosts to reverse a 4-1 first leg deficit and advance to a semi-final meeting in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) with Astana Arlans Kazakhstan.

It was always going to be tough boxing at such high altitude against a strong Mexican team, and despite

some creditable performances, the team just couldn't do enough to get a result on this occasion," said

Rob McCracken, GB Boxing's performance director.

The team was a match for anyone at home and some of our boxers have been among the best in the whole

The boxers in the GB boxing squad have enjoyed taking part in WSB and they have all learnt something

Tom DegunMarch 28 - British Basketball have appointed Damian Jennings as the new head coach of the GB

women's team after the organisation received a £7 million ($10 million/€8 million) funding boost from

who quit earlier this year following a disappointing showing at the London 2012 Olympics where the Team

GB women's basketball side lost all five of their matches.Jennings worked alongside Maher as part of

the coaching team in the lead up to London 2012 while he has been involved with GB basketball since

Having been part of the coaching team since 2006, I'm honoured to have been given the chance to lead

The Team GB women’s basketball side failed to win any of their five games at the London 2012 Olympic

secured their first five athlete slots for next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi for a women's curling team

win ranking points on behalf of Great Britain for Sochi in both men's and women's categories, and the team

Claire Hamilton supported by alternate Lauren Gray and coaches Rhona Martin and David Hay ensured that GB

will have a women's team at Sochi after becoming the first Scottish female team to take the world title

It's a great way to end the winter season, with the first five athlete slots secured for Team GB for

However, expect plenty more next season as we believe Team GB will number about 50 athletes at the Winter

By Tom DegunMarch 27 - Loughborough University are set to establish a new academic campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, which is due to open in 2015.

for its sports-related courses and achievements while it served as the official preparation camp for Team

GB ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]

By Duncan MackayMarch 23 - Details of the men's qualifying system to be employed for Rio 2016, when rugby sevens makes its Olympic debut, have been revealed.

of the six IRB regions will have an Olympic qualifications event where there will be one team

the qualifying positions would be New Zealand, Fiji, England and Samoa.But England compete under a Team

GB banner in the Olympics and it remains unclear as to how qualification for Britain would work, as

By Duncan MackayMarch 18 - Olympic silver medallist Paul Ratcliffe has been appointed GB Canoeing's

  Paul Ratcliffe on his way to an Olympic silver medal at Sydney 2000 A GB Canoeing coach since

 "We have a group of highly motivated and talented athletes, a team of exceptional coaches to match

up his new post on the back of the most successful Olympics for Britain's slalom canoeists, when the team

Baillie and Etienne Stott led an historic British gold and silver performance in the C2 at London 2012 "GB

John Anderson, the GB Canoeing performance director, backed Ratcliffe to be successful.