chief executive Simon Clegg is leaving Ipswich Town, the football club he had joined after leading Team

GB to their best performance for a century at Beijing 2008.

Clegg had joined Ipswich in April 2009 just a few months after he had lead Team GB to fourth in the overall

By Duncan MackayFebruary 4 -  Bill Furniss, the man who helped guide Rebecca Adlington to four Olympic medals, has been named as British Swimming's new head coach, it was announced today. 

 He is part of a new look team alongside Chris Spice, who has resigned as the performance director

of GB Basketball to replace Australian Michael Scott, who resigned last November.

Chris Spice is leaving GB Basketball to help, he hopes, British Swimming fulfil its potential Furniss

"I feel it's a team that can take swimming to a new level and achieve fantastic things."

Michael Jamieson celebrates his silver at London 2012 - but he was one of only two Team GB swimmers to

Emily GoddardFebruary 4 - Jason Lee has been named as the new head coach of the England women's hockey team

The new challenge of coaching the women's team is indeed an exciting one," Lee said."

I've had a long and emotional time in charge of the men's team and I leave it with many great memories

GB men just missed out on their first Olympic men's hockey medal since 1988, losing 3-1 to Australia

, declares Team GB hockey coachAugust 2012: Tears rather than silver or gold for GB's London 2012

women's hockey team

By Tom DegunFebruary 4 - Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby (GBWR) have appointed Lorraine Brown as their new performance director as they begin to prepare for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

as a water polo athlete, has spent 25 years in elite sport and has previously worked as Paralympics GB

The ParalympicsGB wheelchair rugby team finished in fifth place at London 2012 The appointment comes

after the Britain's wheelchair rugby team finished fifth at London 2012."

is an exciting and important appointment and I am absolutely delighted that Lorraine is joining our team

her leadership and experience will be invaluable as we build a sustainable performance system and get GB

By Mike Rowbottom February 3 - Ian Stewart, the promoter of UK Athletics' main domestic events and head of the organisation's endurance running for five years until the position was taken over by John Nuttall, has left the organisation suddenly after a reported row.

, the President of USA Track & Field, were also instrumental in bringing the American athletics team

has been central to the success of our televised events for years, and he has helped train the new team

Under Ian's leadership, the GB & NI Cross Country team has been arguably the most successful of all

sports at a European level, finishing the number one ranked team for five consecutive years."

silver medals, he turned to a coaching career in which, most gloriously, he guided Rhona Martin and her team

vision is the Sochi 2014 Games, looming a year away.Hay, who also played a part in the preparation of Team

GB ahead of the London 2012 Games as he managed the preparation camp at Loughborough University, sat

to Sochi 2014 - albeit the environmental challenges, and that of a hugely funded and motivated home team

The men's team have been world silver medallists these last two years but I have to say haven't shown

The men's curling team were world champions nine months previously.

Velodrome in GlasgowFebruary 2 - Two-time Olympic gold medallist Ed Clancy stole the limelight as his team

reaching its conclusion following dates in Manchester and London.Englishman Clancy and Rapha Condor JLT team-mate

 Second-placed team Rudy Project RT pulled-back as German Nico Hesslich won the Elimination Race

victory for Rapha Condor JLT, who finished on 216 points, ahead of Rudy Project RT on 200 in second and Team

Rouleur on 166 in third place.In the same race, another Team GB London 2012 gold medal-winner took maximum

points, with Englishman Steven Burke of Team Rouleur finishing first with team-mate and compatriot,

when we all gathered on Chorleywood Common to play our habitual post-Big Match match.The Leeds United team

question: "Do I shell out for the new look, or do I publicly admit that I am not a true follower of the team

"Call that a proper name for a team?"

As the official team name of Great Britain and Northern Ireland makes clear, it is a related separate

The BOA (British Olympic Association) did the same thing when they set up Team GB – and there wasn't

By Emily GoddardJanuary 31 - Two British Olympic medal winners have been named on the 18-strong England women's hockey squad heading to the Investec Challenge in Cape Town.

Herbert, who is three international caps short of a century, Susie Gilbert and Sam Quek on the England team

week.Goalkeepers Maddie Hinch and Kirsty Mackay, and Dilly Newton and Susannah Townsend, who were involved in the Team

GB training squad leading up to last summer's Olympics also make the team, which will face Olympic gold

week-long event at the Hartleyvale Stadium.With Gilbert and Unsworth as co-captains for tournament, the team

Susie Gilbert will captain the team alongside Laura Unsworth The world number four team will be

By Tom DegunJanuary 30 - Amber Charles, who memorably proved one of the stars of the successful London 2012 bid presentation in Singapore eight years ago, has pleaded with UK Sport to reconsider their decision to cut funding for British Basketball with the two organisations having met to discuss the issue today.

The East Londoner was just 15-years-old when she joined the London 2012 bid team, headed by Sebastian

cities' presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).Charles had ambitions to represent Team

GB in basketball at Rio 2016 but fears that her dream could be over unless UK Sport reverse their decision

basketball team for Rio 2016."

Without UK Sport funding, GB Basketball is dead and my dream to compete in Rio 2016 is over."

No Team GB, no Olympic dream, no goal."Emotive stuff-but will it fall on deaf ears?

is investing several million euros in the project after abandoning plans for a British America's Cup team

By Tom DegunJanuary 28 - Britain's NBA superstar Luol Deng has thrown his high-profile support behind the campaign for UK Sport to reconsider its funding cut to British Basketball with a hard-hitting letter to Prime Minister David Cameron.

the major attractions of the London 2012 Olympic basketball competition as he spearheaded the men's Team

GB side that finished ninth at the Games.But British Basketball was one of the big losers in UK Sport's

No Team GB, no Olympic dream, no goal."

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 28 - Tributes have been made throughout British rowing to Acer Nethercott, the Olympic silver medal-winning cox and double Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race winner, who has died at the age of 35.

"We mourn his passing," a Great Britain rowing team spokesman said.Nethercott, who was from Harlow

year-old Greg Searle, went on to win bronze, finishing behind Canada and gold medal winners Germany.The team

"He had an exceptional period with the GB Rowing Team until illness in the past Olympiad".Acer Nethercott

By Lauren MatteraJanuary 24 - GB Taekwondo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Seoul's

GB Taekwondo performance director Gary Hall (pictured top, right) signed the agreement with the Seoul

light of last year's successful performance at London 2012, where Jade Jones claimed a gold medal, GB

Korea remains, as it has for almost the history of the Junior World Championships, the top junior team

Education High School has a strong understanding with the South Korean National Sports University – who we [GB

Taekwondo] have always had a strong relationship with," Steve Flynn GB Taekwondo commercial director

sport and clubs in this country would collapse and it is absolutely true to say that every member of Team

GB and ParalympicsGB could trace the start they had in sport back to the volunteers in their clubs and

part of Join In 2013.London 2012 was incredible for so many different reasons and the performance of Team

GB and ParalympicsGB in both the Olympics and Paralympics was inspirational.Now we need to take it back