By Tom DegunMarch 18- Paralympic table tennis star Will Bayley and wheelchair basketball player Maddie Thompson have been announced as athlete ambassadors for the next ParalympicsGB Sports Fest in April at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.

how they can get involved.Bayley, who won a silver in the individual competition and a bronze in the team

Maddie Thompson made her Paralympic debut at London 2012 as one of the youngest players on the women’s GB

wheelchair basketball team Thompson, who made her Paralympic debut at London 2012 as one of the youngest

players on the women's GB wheelchair basketball team, is equally delighted to be involved as she plays

for local team the Sheffield Steelers."

By Mike RowbottomMarch 13 - British Athletics will, for the first time, send an official team to next

group to Florida next month, and this year is the first year that we will attend the Penn Relays as a GB

team," Black said."

criticism from within the sport for being too stringent.Members of Britain's victorious 4x400m relay team

By James CrookMarch 13 - Andy Harrison, the English Institute of Sport (EIS) operations manager, has been named by British Cycling as its new programmes director.

physiologist, as well as serving as the high performance advisor at England Netball and the Olympic team

I'm confident that the addition of Andy to the team alongside Sir David Brailsford as Performance Director

Having worked alongside the GB cycling team during their last two successful Olympic cycles, I am looking

my experience and learning's from the elite sports industry will help drive the momentum which the team

has picked up and I'm happy to have this opportunity to work with the GB Cycling Team."

By James CrookMarch 12- Both winning sides on the opening day at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool in Nagano continued their winning ways to secure spots in the semi-finals as hosts Japan edged out Great Britain 3-1 in a close encounter this morning, whilst Germany hit seven goals for the second successive day, beating Slovakia 7-0.

and things didn't get any better for the Slovakians as the game went on.Bas Disveld hit two goals and team-mates

the final period.Great Britain were down but not out, and when Steve Thomas scored to make it 2-1, GB

annihilation at IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World ChampionshipsMarch 2013: Ottobock and IPC Ice Sledge Hockey team

Most of us went into debt every time we played for the national team."

His female GB colleague Rachel Laybourne, 30, knows all about debt.

Every single member of our team was in debt, constantly borrowing money.

I speak to guys in the hockey team regularly who are up against it.

Three other GB hockey players, Anne Panter, Simon Mantell and Emily Maguire have spent four weeks with

By Tom Degun at the Windsor Atlântica Hotel in Rio de JaneiroMarch 10 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe has revealed here today that the organisation may not appoint a new chief executive following the departure of Andy Hunt.

years in the position "to move on to another leadership role" having served as Chef de Mission for Team

GB at London 2012 where they finished third on the medal table with 65 medals, 29 of which were gold.Following

they would not appoint an interim chief executive, with Coe working with the organisation's management team

We have got a very good management team at the BOA that is doing an extremely good job and working extremely

By Tom DegunMarch 7 - Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby has announced that former player Paul Shaw has been named as the new head coach in the lead up to Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Shaw, who will take up the position next month, competed for the ParalympicsGB wheelchair basketball team

career in 2009, working with the wheelchair rugby club Crash in Southport.He coached the Irish national team

responsible for identifying and nurturing new talent - many of whom are likely to form the basis of the next GB

I have represented GB in the Paralympics as a player, though never to have quite won a medal."

tactical and technical appreciation of the game is world class and takes us another step closer to a GB

By Emily GoddardMarch 5 - Andrew Scoular has been confirmed as chief executive of the British Judo Association (BJA), after the former Rugby Football Union (RFU) community rugby director acted as caretaker in the position following the London 2012 Olympics and the departure of Scott McCarthy in October last year.

England lead coach and Great Britain performance analysis coach, played a significant role in leading the Team

GB athletes to the London 2012 Games, where Gemma Gibbons and Karina Bryant claimed a silver and a bronze

Our success will be a team effort and it will be important to instil extremely high standards for everyone

elite performers thrive on and I expect that all involved from clubs and home country programmes to the GB

By James CrookMarch 4 - David Beckham has claimed he is "honoured" to have been appointed as a global ambassador for Chinese football today, with the British icon to help promote the game in the world's most populous nation.

served as an ambassador for the London 2012 Games in his home city after not being allocated one of Team

GB boss Stuart Pearce's three over-23 positions for the Olympic tournament.Contact the writer of this

Wheelchair Basketball have unveiled their current performance programme manager Haj Bhania as the new GB

men's team head coach, where he will be tasked with leading them to medal success at Rio 2016.

worked with British Wheelchair Basketball for more than 16 years.He has previously held positions as the GB

junior's head coach, GB men's and women's assistant coach and most recently performance programme manager.As

the role from Australian Murray Treseder, who quit following the conclusion of London 2012 after the GB

I feel very privileged and honoured to have been chosen to head up the coaching team for the GB Men's

team," said Bhania."

flooding into gymnastics, boxing, athletics et el as a consequence of the glorious achievements of Team

"This is outrageous," says Archery GB chairman Dave Harrison.

By Tom DegunMarch 3 - UK Sport chair Baroness Sue Campbell is hopeful that her successor is an individual with "real passion, drive and commitment" to elite sport as she prepares to set down next month.

leading the transformation of elite sport in the UK, which was highlighted with the performance of Team

GB at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, where they finished fourth and third respectively in the overall

medals table.But Campbell, who is also chair of the Youth Sport Trust, has praised the strong team in

We also shouldn't forget the great work Simon Morton and his team are doing leading major events."

So I leave feeling there is a great team in place, a great sense of clear purpose and a really strong

By James CrookFebruary 28 - British Olympic champion Helen Glover is set to make her comeback at the Rowing World Cup in Sydney next month, teaming up with Polly Swann as her London 2012 partner Heather Stanning returns to duty with the British Army.

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesAugust 2012: Home celebrations as rowers Glover and Stanning earn Team

GB maiden gold medal of London 2012

By Tom Degun at Westway Sports Centre in LondonFebruary 26 - British Mountaineering Council (BMC) chief executive Dave Turnbull has claimed the huge appeal of climbing to young people around the world could help the sport secure a spot at the 2020 Olympic Games.

In terms of the GB climbing team, it is going from strength to strength and being in the Olympics would

By David OwenFebruary 26 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) is closing in on three new sponsorship deals to help tide it over difficult financial times in the wake of London 2012.

Those discussions are going well and there continues to be a great deal of interest in supporting Team

GB and aligning with the Team GB brand, particularly off the success of London 2012," the BOA added.It