By Tom DegunDecember 20 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) have secured their preparation camp for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Minas Tenis Clube (MTC) in the city of Belo Horizonte.

The BOA today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with the MTC (pictured top) for Team

GB athletes to train there prior to the start of the Olympics to help them adapt to the conditions and

Brazil and among other South American countries following an extensive search process that involved team

pre-Games training and preparation environment right is absolutely essential to the success of an Olympic team

GB athletics and cycling squads will train at the MTC or stage separate preparations camps as both sports

By Tom DegunDecember 19 - Inspirational Paralympian Martine Wright, who was badly injured in the July 7 London bombings in 2005 before going on to recover and compete at London 2012, admits she is devastated by UK Sport's decision to cut all the funding for her sport of sitting volleyball.

both of her legs.But her Rio 2016 dream looks over as UK Sport announced this week that it has cut GB

As someone reliant on a wheelchair, it's quite a liberating experience to get out and play a dynamic team

The British women's sitting volleyball team made their Paralympic debut at London 2012, losing all five

sport as a whole reflects that and we are delighted that the strong performance of the ParalympicsGB team

former mentor, Jenni Banks, has been appointed as UK Athletics' new wheelchair racing coach to help the team

working with new wheelchair racing coach Jenni Banks "I've admired from afar the transformation in the GB

Paralympic athletics team and support structures, led by Peter Eriksson, but am also aware that, no

appointment to head coach and now Jenni's appointment as wheelchair racing coach, I feel the Paralympic team

UK Sport have set Team GB the target of winning more medals at Rio 2016 than they did at London 2012

press conference, "because the evidence of this summer is that what people like seeing is a successful Team

GB.

But take your own view on this – would you rather have your sponsorship negotiated by an in-house team

By Mike RowbottomDecember 14 - Britain's Olympic silver medallist Samantha Murray has received the British Modern Pentathlon Olympic Athlete of the Year Award.

Murray (pictured top) was presented with the award at a Pentathlon GB dinner in Bath at the end

the Year Award for making the biggest improvement in his first year training at the Pentathlon GB

Great Britain received the inaugural Outstanding Performance of the Year Award.Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB

medals, including team relay gold at the 2007 World Championships, a team silver at the 2006

Jon Austin, chief executive of Pentathlon GB, the performance team, English Institute of Sport (EIS)

By Mike RowbottomDecember 13 - Jade Jones winning Olympic gold in the taekwondo and then throwing her headguard in the air has been voted the most memorable moment of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in a poll carried out by BT, the official communications services partner of the Games.

Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford all winning gold in the space of 40 minutes on Saturday August 4.4: GB

women's football team beating tournament favourites Brazil 1-0 in front of 70,000 people at Wembley,

crowd for a women's game in Britain.Crista Cullen winning the first Olympic medal in 20 years for Team

GB women's hockey was voted as the fifth most memorable moment of London 20125: GB women's

hockey team winning bronze at the Riverbank Arena, the first GB medal in women's hockey at the Olympics

By Tom Degun December 13 - The British Olympic Association (BOA), British Paralympic Association (BPA) and UK Sport have announced plans for an Athletes Career Fair which will see businesses given the opportunity to employ Olympians and Paralympians.

The Athletes Career Fair is one way for us to help retired or retiring Team GB athletes apply their many

By Lauren MatteraDecember 11 - Britain's Olympic taekwondo gold medallist Jade Jones has been named as the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2012 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

teammates Steven Burke, Ed Clancy and Peter Kennaugh to form the British London 2012 Olympic gold medal team

and was duly voted third in the BBC Cymru Wales awards.Meanwhile, the Welsh rugby union squad took Team

riding to victory at last month's UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow with the all-conquering women's team

world taekwondo champion but misses gold at German OpenDecember 2011: Double medal success for GB

taekwondo team at French OpenMay 2011: Teenage sensation Jones takes silver on World Championships

European under-23 cross country title in Budapest today – helping the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team

the title won by Britain's Emma Pallant 12 months ago spearheaded a British effort that resulted in team

The last time I made a GB team was five years ago."I put it down to my coach, Mick Woods."

whom she exchanged the lead three times in the closing stages, but the Briton's placing helped her team

the senior women.UK Athletics' performance director Neil Black said: "That was another outstanding team

From Jess Coulson's individual gold to the team effort shown by the under-23 men to take bronze by a

By Tom Degun December 9 - England has two new Youth World Champions after boxers Hughie Fury and Oliver Simpson (pictured) both claimed gold with victories at the 2012 International Boxing Association (AIBA) Youth World Boxing Championships in Yerevan, Armenia.

To deliver England's best ever performance at these Championships was a superb achievement by the team

England’s success at the 2012 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships came after Anthony Joshua and Team

GB topped the medal table at London 2012 England's success at the Youth World Boxing Championships

By Mike RowbottomJessica Ennis, Bradley Wiggins, Alistair Brownlee, Mo Farah. How good would it be for England if all four of those Olympic champions were able to turn up at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, now less than 600 days away? (All these competition countdowns...it's getting like Christmas shopping days...)Answer, of course, very good. And all the signs are that this dream-list could become reality once Scotland welcomes back the version of Games it last hosted in Edinburgh in 1986.England's experience at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games – despite the dire prognostications about dengue fever and dirty rooms – turned...

CGE will have a team lodge close to the Glasgow 2014 Games Village In terms of their efforts to provide

Ennis and Wiggins with optimum comfort in Glasgow, CGE has already sorted out the location for its team

The England team that competed at the 2006 Melbourne Games did not even have a kit sponsor.

Team GB finished third at the London 2012 Olympics with 65 medals, including 29 golds But Paker and

We know that in that selection of sports we did outdo the Australians – Team GB that is – but the range

world number one Aaron Cook plans to switch his allegiance to the Isle of Man after being snubbed by GB

The 21-year-old from Dorchester, who was considered to be one of Team GBs most promising prospects for

His kick back at Team GB would mean he will be fighting under the Manx flag, which is an associate member

of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) and therefore is permitted to field its own team at WTF-sanctioned

GB at Rio 2016."

Cook left GB Taekwondo's World Class Performance Programme last year to pursue his own team and train

By Mike RowbottomDecember 7 - Craig Pickering, the former Olympian and European junior 100 metres champion, has become the latest athlete to switch to bobsleigh with the hope of competing at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.

finished second on her World Cup debut, in the US resort of Lake Placid last month.The British bobsleigh team

have also shown impressive form in their early part of the season, with the men's team currently ranked

Pickering added: "I do hope I can help GB bobsleigh, but with their recent results I know I'm going to

There have been a number of others, including ex-sprinters Marcus Adam and Allyn Condon and former GB

bobsleigher Nicola Minichiello, who now coaches the Dutch national team, who began her career in the

By Mike RowbottomDecember 6 - Sarah Winckless, Olympic bronze medallist and double world champion rower, has held off the challenge of four London 2012 competitors – including fellow Olympic rowing medallists Zac Purchase and Alex Partridge – to earn re-election as chair of the British Olympic Association's (BOA) Athletes' Commission.

Winckless, a graduate of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, who has rowed for Team GB at three

bronze in the eight – Winckless faced competition from Britain's hockey captain Kate Walsh, who led her team

support from the Commission members in the last two years and I believe we have made a real difference to Team

and a chair, made up of a mixture of past and present athletes, men and women from summer, winter, team

By Tom Degun December 6 - British Swimming chief executive David Sparkes has had a "healthy debate" with swimming star Rebecca Adlington after she publically criticised the governing body, he claims.

claimed British Swimming did not need "radical" overhaul despite the Olympic failure.At London 2012, Team

GB claimed just three medals with the two bronzes from Adlington and a silver for Michael Jamieson to

"technical and coaching leadership", but it concluded that no one single factor was responsible for Team

GB failing to reach its target London 2012.The recruitment process for a new national performance director