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GB Badminton "disappointed" as top female player announces resignation from programme online

  • Badminton

CrookFebruary 25 - Britain's leading female player Jenny Wallwork has announced her resignation from the GB

age of 26 and entering the prime of my career I feel the necessity to submit my resignation from the GB

criticising the programme in the process.Jenny Wallwork (right) announced her resignation from the GB

Badminton programme "I could not compromise with a GB programme in which I have no confidence."

After a very underwhelming performance at the London 2012 Olympic Games from the British badminton team

2012, in February last year, over which the pair were forced to apologise.Wallwork told her Glaswegian team-mate


Amy Williams: A week to remember in Brasov

  • Inside the Blogs

Arriving at the hotel prior to their departure to Brasov they received a fantastic bag of Team GB kit

, attended workshops, and had their first official team meal as members of Team GB.

have they lived their lives this week through the Team GB "One Team GB" values but also importantly

the Olympic values of excellence, respect and friendship.Having made my way to see every Team GB member

Amy Williams is the Olympic bob skeleton gold medallist and now a Team GB Ambassador


Multi-million pound development project underway at Olympic white water centre

  • Canoeing

By James CrookFebruary 21- Work has begun on the £6.3 million ($9.6 million/€7.3 million) development project of the Lee Valley White Water Centre, which was used for the London 2012 Olympics.

Many people have been inspired by Team GB's success at Lee Valley White Water Centre to get involved

Canoe Slalom programme manager at GB Canoeing, Andy Maddock, said: "This development starting is the



GB Badminton optimistic despite "big loss" of singles coach Jonassen

  • Badminton

By James Crook at the National Badminton Centre in Milton KeynesFebruary 19 - GB Badminton singles coach

I wish we could have kept him through the next important phase for GB Badminton but before he leaves,

Hoi, another Danish import to the GB Badminton set-up, coached the German doubles team that reached the

quarter-finals at London 2012, and has already led men's doubles team Chris Adcock and Andrew Ellis

insidethegames when asked how much of an impact the win over the world number ones would have on his team

Having a good win over the world number one men's doubles team is nice and of course, me, coming from


Mike Rowbottom: Rising Stars aspire yet higher thanks to Kelly Holmes, David Roberts and Mark Foster

  • Inside the Blogs

an athlete, which is why I'm delighted to run the unique mentoring and education programme with my team

supervision from Dame Kelly and Co "There has been a real buzz around the Rising Stars and support team

might come, but I'm working hard for the World Championships in May and now enjoying training with the GB

looking after your body for life, being world-class, financial and fife planning, building a successful team


Exclusive: London 2012 surplus set to put BOA back into black

  • London 2012

By David OwenFebruary 14 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) could bounce back into profit - if London 2012 declares a surplus when its final accounts are filed in June.

bar so high with their medal-winning exploits in London, would be "planning for success as an away team

".This would involve exploration of how to make Team GB "the most local non-local team".Further sponsorship


David Owen: So farewell then Andy Hunt

  • Inside the Blogs

challenge - a challenge it could not afford to fail.This was to organise and service the biggest British team

appears to have overseen this process while touching off no bigger crisis than a running gag about Team

GB scarves, in spite of all manner of political noises-off in the background, is very much to his credit

pictured with Prime Minister David Cameron, was Chef de Mission of the most successful British Olympic team


Hunt is latest BOA departure, as it adjusts to life after London 2012

  • ANOC News

By David OwenFebruary 13 - Andy Hunt is to step down as chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), as the body continues the process of adjusting to life after London 2012.

2012.It was announced that no interim chief executive would be appointed.Instead, the BOA management team

Andy Hunt was Chef de Mission of the most successful British Olympic team in more than a century But

time with the organisation as "an amazing four years".He said he would "always be proud to have led Team

GB at a home Games, and of the fantastic performance of the team this summer and the way in which the

I know I speak on behalf of all Team GB athletes and the BOA board when I say thank you to Andy for the


Gymnastics superheroes Purvis and Tunney to swoop into 2013 British Championships

  • Gymnastics

By Emily GoddardFebruary 10 - Gymnasts Daniel Purvis and Rebecca Tunney will arrive at the 2013 Men's and Women's British Championships as superheroes after artwork was created to immortalise them as the superhumans they have become following their efforts at last summer's Olympics.

squad and competed in the all around competition with teammate Kristian Thomas.Meanwhile, Tunney was Team

GB's youngest athlete at the Games, aged 15, when she helped the team qualify in fifth place and made

it to the individual all around final with a score of 56.391.In the team final, she contributed scores

Daniel Purvis helped Team GB win an Olympic bronze medal at London 2012 Purvis explained that he is


Philip Barker: Olympic sports facing their X-factor moment

  • Inside the Blogs

"Team sports are out of place in the Olympiad," he wrote and gave his support to "a strictly individual

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

GB publications.


London Olympic Village investor steps in to end British alpine skiing sponsor drought

  • Skiing

London 2012 Olympic Village, has signed a deal to become the principal sponsor of the British alpine ski team

Delancy already sponsors the annual British National Alpine Ski Championships The sponsorship of the team

selections forward to the British Olympic Association (BOA) who are due to announce the members of Team

GB in late January 2014.Second photo: © Racer Ready/Neil McQuoidContact the writer of this story


Olympic skeleton champion Williams named as Sochi 2014 Team GB ambassador

  • Sochi 2014

GoddardFebruary 7 - Britain's Olympic skeleton champion Amy Williams has today been unveiled as the first Team

GB 2014 ambassador to mark exactly one year to go to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

GB ambassador, Williams, who also won silver at the 2009 World Championships, will work to motivate

GB at this month's European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Brasov," she explained."

I am one of Team GB's greatest fans and I can't wait to see who will be selected for the team and what

As our first official Team GB 2014 Ambassador, Amy Williams will be an integral part of Team GB and play

We know that Team GB athletes will be proud to have her as their ambassador."


Andy Hunt: Most competitive winter Team GB ever heading for Sochi 2014 Olympics

  • Inside the Blogs

In exactly one year, Team GB will once again be marching proudly in to a stadium for an Olympic Opening

Based on what we know today and have seen so far this winter season, Team GB is likely to be comprised

Selection to Team GB could start as early as April of this year and run until January next year.For the

Sochi 2014 Games, we believe this could be the most competitive winter Team GB yet.

This would be the first time in over 60 years that Team GB would have an ice hockey team at the Olympic


Draw made for 2013 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships

  • Wheelchair Basketball News

By James CrookFebruary 6 - The draw has been made for the 2013 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, with reigning men's champions Great Britain drawn alongside European silver medallists, and this year's hosts, Germany in the pick of the draw.

The Europeans will give us chance to bounce back from London and show everyone we are a winning team.

Being reigning champions' means that we are the team everyone wants to beat."

back Gold's that would be something very special." he added.Meanwhile, in Group B, the most successful team

on runners-up for the last six tournaments, Holland, who defeated them resoundingly at London 2012.GB