By Duncan MackayNovember 18 - The controversial "Osaka Rule", which banned athletes convicted of serious doping offences from competing in the next Olympic Games, has been dropped from the latest draft World Anti-Doping Code in favour of doubling the length of bans from two to four years, it was announced today. 

Association's (BOA) bylaw which banned any athlete convicted of a serious doping offence representing Team

GB at the Olympics, leaving the way clear for convicted drugs cheats Dwain Chambers, Carl Myerscough

By Emily GoddardNovember 16 - A special edition of the iconic London Underground Tube map, featuring ParalympicsGB's medal winning athletes in place of station names, has gone on sale today as a tribute to Britain's success at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

97 athletes and five horses who contributed to ParalympicsGB's medal haul, and follows on from the Team

GB Olympic medallists map released in September 2012."

By Mike RowbottomNovember 16 - British Skeleton, which has earned Olympic medals at the last three Winter Games, has announced its first direct sponsorship for a decade in the form of a new two-year agreement with Lloyd & Partners Limited (LPL) which will provide support through to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

are delighted to be able to get behind British Skeleton and to play a part in the development of a team

with such remarkable potential in a sport that will, with luck, place Team GB in the limelight at Sochi

By Duncan MackayNovember 15 - A new nationwide talent identification programme has been launched by GB

GB Taekwondo officials believe that the recent rule changes increasing points scored for kicks to the

Since 2007, the UK Talent Team has worked with 20 Olympic and Paralympic sports and more than 100 world

GB Taekwondo's Fighting Chance initiative is backed by Britain's top starsThese projects have resulted

appearances made and a total of 102 international medals won.Twelve of these athletes went onto represent Team

won from talent ID athletes who have come through our campaigns," said Ian Yates from the UK Talent Team

By Tom Degun November 15 - Jason Queally, an Olympic gold medallist at Sydney 2000, is to return to the British Cycling Paralympic squad as a tandem pilot.

the build-up to the London 2012 but he left the squad in 2010 in order to try to claim a place in the GB

Olympic team pursuit squad.But Queally missed out on his goal to qualify for the Olympic team and instead

way for Britain to become the world's dominant force in track cycling.Meanwhile 22-year-old European team

his name as a sprinter on the track, winning a world junior title in 2007 and two European Under-23 team

velodrome or on the road.At London 2012 Craig McLean, who won a silver medal at Sydney 2000 as part of the team

By Emily GoddardNovember 9 - The National Lottery has been confirmed as the headline sponsor of this year's Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) British Sports Awards taking place at the Tower of London on December 6.

Olympic sports, which helped athletes prepare for the London 2012 Games.As a result, 88 per cent of Team

GB competitors selected for the London Olympics received National Lottery money through UK Sport's World

GB and ParalympicsGB athletes selected had benefited from National Lottery funding."

Team GB came home from the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 in 36th place in the medal table, with just a solitary

This year, Team GB had its most successful Games in over 100 years, finishing third in the medal table

By Mike RowbottomNovember 8 - British Cycling has called on the Government to urgently improve safety measures for cyclists on the road after Tour de France winner and Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins and British track coach Shane Sutton were hospitalised within 12 hours of each other after two separate road traffic accidents.

British Cycling has confirmed that Shane Sutton, head coach for the GB Cycling Team, was involved in

By Tom Degun at Charlotte Street in LondonNovember 7 - Sebastian Coe has today been officially elected as the new British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman by acclimation from the 43 members of the National Olympic Committee.

ensuring the growth of the Olympic Movement throughout the UK and the continued success and support of Team

GB at future Olympic Games," Coe (pictured top) said at a press conference here."

By Tom Degun at Charlotte Street in London November 6 - Colin Moynihan, the outgoing British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman, has backed his successor Sebastian Coe to build on his foundations at the organisation.

Despite helping steer Team GB to third place at the London 2012 Olympics with 65 medals, 29 of them gold

It is to the great credit of the management team that we raised that £88 million ($176 million/€110 million

By Andrew WarshawNovember 5 - Peter Eriksson, the new head coach of UK Athletics, has pledged not to be too autocratic in his dealings with the country's athletes as they set their sights on the Rio Olympics following the six track and field medals gained at London 2012.

week after a sometimes uneasy relationship with some members of the sport.Van Commenee moved on after Team

GB fell two medals short of his target at the London 2012 Olympics - despite four of those six were

We both want to achieve great performances by this team and that will not change."

By Tom DegunNovember 5 - Glasgow 2014 has today begun its search for 15,000 volunteers for the Commonwealth Games with the official opening of the Volunteer Centre.

I was part of the athletics equipment team and I was made to feel really appreciated and respected as

Another night to remember was when Team GB claimed three track and field Golds, the Saturday evening

. ears reverberating the chanting of "USA...USA" as the home gymnasts secure the gymnastics women's team

Olympic Association (BOA) feasibility report produced by David Luckes, goalkeeper in Britain's hockey team

And again: "Broken jaw bronze for Team GB" – the tale of hockey captain Kate Walsh's courageous and instant

By Mike RowbottomOctober 26 - Britain's Olympic hockey player Hannah Macleod spoke today of her "huge relief" at the recovery of her bronze medal which was stolen along with the bronze earned by Olympic rower Alex Partridge from a Mayfair nightclub in the early hours of Wednesday (October 24) morning.

Hockey headquarters at Bisham Abbey in Buckinghamshire.Partridge's medal is still missing, although his Team

GB jacket was handed in to police on last night.Macleod (pictured top) is still missing her jacket.The

If you picked up a bronze Olympic medal that isn't yours please just send anonymously back to GB hockey-Bisham

By Mike RowbottomOctober 25 - Police have arrested a man in connection with the alleged theft of two bronze medals from British Olympians Alex Partridge and Hannah Macleod in the early hours of Wednesday – the search is still on for the medals.

successes.Partridge, who was in the eight which took third place in their final at Eton Dorney, is also missing his Team

GB blazer.A 29-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned at a west London police station

, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.Macleod – a member of the women's bronze-medallists hockey team

If you picked up a Bronze Olympic medal that isn't yours pls just send anonymously back to GB hockey-Bisham

Live, Partridge said he initially thought his possessions had been mistakenly taken by another team

By David OwenOctober 25 - London 2012 seems to have been a mixed blessing for the vibrant domestic betting sector.

gold medal-winning long distance runner Mo Farah punished the bookies more than any other athlete or team

The brilliant performances in both athletics and cycling by some of Team GB will surely propel the profiles