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British synchronised swimmers Jenna Randall and Olivia Allison believe 2012 will be their year, but they’re equally determined to make their Olympic debut in Beijing this summer.

“We have a clear vision that we are going to the Olympic Games in 2008,” said Randall, the senior member of the... read more

Double European Junior Cross Country champion Steph Twell expects to be at her 1500m peak by London 2012, but her recent performances as she makes the transition from junior to senior have meant that qualification for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is now a very real possibility.

Twell is rightly pleased with her recent form, “The times that I have run obviously put me in conte... read more

Darius Knight and Paul Drinkhall, Britain’s top two table tennis players, demonstrated their skills to an audience of FTSE and National Governing Body of Olympic sports personnel as the read more

Triple World Track Cycling Champion Victoria Pendleton has been voted 2007 Sportswoman of the Year by the Sports Journalists Association, joining an illustrious roll of honour that includes fellow Olympians Kelly Holmes, read more

Team GB’s boxing contingent at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be at least the largest in twenty years after their success at the recent AIBA World Championships in Chicago. Lightweight gold medallist Frankie Gavin, bronze medallists Joe Murray and Bradley Saunders and quarter finalist Tony Jeffries all secured places to compete for Team GB in Beijing next year, subject to t... read more

Beth Tweddle is Britain’s most successful gymnast. After securing gold in the floor exercises at the recent Glasgow Grand Prix, she is looking ahead to Beijing, where the 2008 Olympic Games will take place next August, together with the rest of the British women’s... read more

Twenty-five young skiers from the British junior squad recently spent a week training at the Huntly Nordic Ski Centre. Many of the group come from the Huntly area, but others come from as far away as Gloucestershire, Huddersfield, Kendal and there was even a guest skier from Australia.

Coaches from Scotland and England were joined for part of the week by a spec... read more

As the Rugby World Cup begins, Cornish Rugby folk are already focussing on 2008 when they hope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the day when their team represented Great Britain in an Olympic Rugby Tournament.

In 1908 London hosted the Olympic Games for the first time and a grand rugby tournament was envisaged. The Rugby Football Union were charged with p... read more

World Champion quadruple sculler Debbie Flood has unfinished business at the 2007 World Rowing Championships, which begin in Munich on 26^th August. The Great Britain team were upgraded to gold medallists last year when Russia were disqualified for a drug offence, but the team were denied a special moment in front of their home crowd.

“I have never hea... read more

Hockey fans are expected to descend on Manchester in their thousands for the EuroHockey Nations Championships, which are taking place from 18^th to 26^th August. The eight-team men’s and women’s tournaments have added significance as the top three countries in both competitions will gain qualification to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Game... read more

Athens 2004 Olympic bronze medallist Alison Williamson leads the British challenge at this week's archery World Cup event in Dover, happy that the most pressing business of the summer is already concluded. Britain's medals in the team events at the FITA World Championships in Leipzig ensured that Team GB will have the maximum number of quota places for the Beijing 2008 Olympic G... read more

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has made a clothes donation to Congolese and Burundian refugee camps in Rwanda. The donation was recently distributed to refugees in the Gihembe Camp, Kiziba Camp, Nyabiheke Camp, Nyagatare Transit Centre and Kigeme Refugee Camp.

Working with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its “Giving is Winning” campaign, and... read more

For England hockey forward Cathy Gilliat-Smith, the road to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is via Azerbaijan and Manchester. The build up begins in earnest this month as England travel to Baku for the six nation Champions Challenge when they will have an early opportunity to size up 2008 Olympic hosts China.

England, acting as the nominated country to qualify Gr... read more

Team GB were last represented in beach volleyball at the Atlanta1996 Olympic Games, the first year it was included, by Audrey Cooper and Amanda Glover.

Since then, pairs have come close to qualifying but not quite made it. This year British duo Lucy Boulton and Denise Johns are looking to change that and are already hot on the trail of qualification points for ... read more

Mhairi Spence is the rising star of Modern Pentathlon. In one sensational month in the summer of 2006, the 21-year-old from Inverness won European gold as a senior and then silver at the World Junior Championships in China. Now she hopes to return there in Olympic year after crowning her season with a team silver and 12th place in the individual competition at the World Championships in Guate... read more