Olympic Association (BOA) has named the 10 young golfers who will become the first athletes to represent Team

GB in the sport for more than a century at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in Sydney next

It is a real honour to be one of the very first golfers to represent Team GB," said Hall."

as a member of Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics.

Zoe Smith will be one of the leading names for Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney

GB at a Youth Olympic event for the 12th time in Sydney."

Team GB athletes who have competed at the AYOF include gymnast Louis Smith, diver Tom Daley and triathlete

By Tom Degun December 5 - Under fire British Swimming have announced key interim leadership appointments after suffering a blistering verbal attack from Rebecca Adlington.

line manager to those who previously reported to Scott.The crisis at British Swimming started after Team

GB claimed just three medals in London - two bronzes from Adlington and a silver for Michael Jamieson

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

GB failing to reach its target London 2012.It cited shortfalls in London as being the exception, not

By Duncan MackayDecember 3 - British Triathlon today announced Brendan Purcell as its new performance director and Ben Bright as the new head coach as it seeks to build on it sucess at London 2012, where Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee won gold and bronze medals.

join British Triathlon from British Canoeing, who enjoyed a successful London 2012 He then joined the GB

Canoe Sprint programme prior to Beijing 2008, and at London 2012, he led the coaching team supporting

the successful medal-winning GB sprint team, including Ed McKeever, who won the K-1 200 metres.

The success the team achieved in London is a fantastic launch pad and the aim for the next cycle is to

Triathlon has a world-leading programme and I'm looking forward to working within such a high performing team

By Duncan MackayDecember 2 - British Swimming chief executive David Sparkes has promised to introduce the changes proposed in the Performance Debrief launched after Britain's disappointing performance at London 2012, even though it found that there was not one major reason behind the failure.

Team GB claimed just three medals in London - two bronzes from Rebecca Adlington and a silver for Michael

coaching leadership".But, it is clear from the consultation, that no one single factor was responsible for Team

GB failing to reach its target London 2012, the panel concluded.Overall, the report recognised British

Swimming has consistently delivered on all of its medal targets for senior team events since the start

I welcome the conclusion of the Performance Debrief and am grateful to Craig Hunter and his team for

By Duncan MackayDecember 2 - Former double world 400 metres hurdles champion Jana Pittman has launched a bid to represent Australia in the bobsleigh at Sochi 2014 in the Winter Paralympics.

She has been selected to have a trial as a brakewoman for the country's bobsled team under the gudiance

 "We will have Jana with the team and slowly getting her used to pushing the bob on ice," said Radjenovi

athletes Lolo Jones and Tianna Madison made the transition to the sport as members of America's bobsled team

Britain, "hands off Jana - she's one of ours"June 2010: Australian double world champion considering GB

By David OwenDecember 1 - It was a money-spinner for many, not least the Olympic Movement – but the London 2012 gravy train left some passengers standing on the platform.

who is about to take up a new post as managing director of Gloucester Rugby Club, said: "Thanks to Team

GB, Paralympic GB and our amazing team of over 150 Games time colleagues, our customers had a memorable

By Duncan MackayNovember 29 - NBC, whose coverage was the subject of fierce debate during London 2012, were the big winners at the Olympic Golden Rings, the biennial awards ceremony tonight in Lausanne which honours broadcasters from around the world for their coverage of the Games.

which act as the host broadcaster at every Games and which was an in-house award.It went to the OBS team

category, winning a silver in the The Best Olympic Programme section for "Super Saturday", which saw Team

GB win six gold medals, including three during an amazing 90 minutes in the Olympic Stadium when Mo

rewarding, and further validation of the tireless efforts and constant innovation of our entire Olympic team

the US and against the Italians at Celtic Manor last week, plus those Olympic triumphs, indicate that GB

following.Sadly, too, most sports editors of my acquaintance are not that bothered with amateur sport until GB

Britain's Robert McCracken, who also mentors world super-middleweight champion Carl Froch as well as Team

GB, to work in the corner.As I have said before this is hypocritical, anachronistic nonsense, especially

By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - The £292 million ($468 million/€362 million) transformation of the Olympic Park officially begun today as the temporary seats installed at the Aquatics Centre for London 2012 were stripped away by builders. 

cross the River Lea will be added to help form the Lee Valley VeloPark.The Velodrome, scene of so many Team

GB and ParalympicsGB successes at London 2012, will be the centrepiece but mountain bike trails have

business events, with a capacity of around 7,500.It will also be the home of British Basketball League team

By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - Britain's Ben Ainslie has announced that his Olympic sailing career is over after ruling out competing at Rio 2016 to concentrate on the Americas Cup. 

there are so many special memories; from that first medal in Atlanta 16 years ago to carrying the [Team

GB] flag at the Closing Ceremony in London 2012," he said."

Ainslie has taken the bold move to setup a team to challenge for the 35th America's Cup, an event conceived

in Britain in 1851 but which has never been won by a British team.The team has taken the first steps

of the event, I feel confident that we can continue to build towards creating a commercially viable team

By Tom Degun November 26 - Britain's London 2012 super heavyweight Olympic champion Anthony Joshua appears to have moved closer to joining the World Series of Boxing (WSB) after admitting he has been hugely impressed with what he has seen of the competition and that he wants to get involved.

British boxers soar in AIBA world rankingsAugust 2012: Joshua secures super heavyweight gold for Team

GB with thrilling win

By Duncan MackayBud Greenspan, who along with Leni Riefenstahl was undoubtedly the filmmaker who has done more than anyone to bring the Olympics to life on celluloid, was an unabashed fan of the 17 days of glory."They're two weeks of love," he once told an interviewer. "It's Like Never Never Land. Like Robin Hood shooting his arrow through the other guy's arrow. It's a privilege to be associated with the best in the world. How many times are you with the best in the world in something? They bring things forward that they don't ordinarily do."For Greenspan, an unforgettable New Yorker who in...

promotion.Rowland is remarkably calm considering that in the editing suite just a few feet away her team

Twice, first in the team event and then in the individual all-round final, the 19-year-old slipped during

 He also fell on the vault during the team event and blamed himself for the fifth-place finish of

GB at London 2012.

For those who want to relive the summer from a Team GB perspective I am pretty sure the BBC five

By Tom Degun November 21 - Hockey star Alex Danson, who helped spearhead Team GB to a bronze medal at

Alex Danson’s crucial goals helped take the Team GB women’s hockey team to a bronze medal at the London

Hockey Centre, which is scheduled to open next year, will become the training base of the Great Britain team

also great for the players because we will get to spend more time there together and become a better team

at [email protected] storiesAugust 2012: We want to be Britain's best women's team

, declares Team GB hockey coach

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de JaneiroNovember 20 - Sebastian Coe has backed the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) proposal to double the length of bans from two to four years for athletes who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

this year - allowing cyclist David Millar and athletes Carl Myerscough and Dwain Chambers to represent Team

GB at London 2012 - but had submitted a proposal to WADA pushing for a four-year ban.The new proposal