Newsletter - Talent Set To Become World Class

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UK Sport Newsletter | 31 January 2008

LATEST NEWS FROM UK SPORT TALENT SET TO BECOME WORLD CLASS A total of 15 athletes have become part of the World Class Handball Programme as a result of the UK Sport/English Institute of Sport (EIS) Sporting Giants campaign – 11 of whom will be fast-tracked straight into the academy based programme in Denmark. Read more WARM WEATHER CAMP AIDING ATHLETES Great Britain's leading athletes have kick started their Olympic preparations at the UK Sport funded warm weather training camp in South Africa. Read more LEAVER APPOINTED AS PRESIDENT OF NEW ANTI-DOPING PANEL Peter Leaver QC has been appointed as President of the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP), which from 1 April will hear doping cases on behalf of sport's national governing bodies. Read more SKANDIA TEAM GBR CELEBRATING WORLD SUCCESS Skandia Team GBR is celebrating more World Championship success in Melbourne, Australia, after Ben Ainslie clinched a historic fifth Finn crown, and 470 sailors Nic Asher and Eliot Willis also claimed gold. Read more UK SPORT 2007 LEADS SPORTING LEGACY DEBATE The power of major events to bring about significant positive change - and how the benefits can be measured to attract further funding support as a consequence - were the two central themes in a keynote presentation to delegates made today by UK Sport's International Director, John Scott, at the 2008 Legacy Lives conference.   Read more UK SPORT 2007 ANNUAL REVIEW RELEASED UK Sport has this week published its 2007 Annual Review. The Review provides a detailed account of UK Sport's key projects within the UK and abroad, and provides further insight into how the organisation is meeting and supporting positive change in the UK's sporting landscape. Read more NORFOLK WINS SECOND AUSTRALIAN OPEN TITLE Paralympic champion Peter Norfolk has won the Australian Wheelchair Tennis Open Quad Singles title for the second time, bringing his career Super Series title wins to 12. Read more Subscribe to UK Sport RSS feed. IN BRIEF News from the UK's high performance sports community, including updates from Boxing, Fencing, Judo and Taekwondo TALENT ID UK SPORT PODCAST 100% ME JOBS IN SPORT Latest Vacancies in British Sport Please email all news and press releases concerning elite sport in the UK to news@uksport.gov.uk To advertise jobs on the website and in the newsletter please email details to jobs@uksport.gov.uk For all further enquiries, please email newsletter@uksport.gov.uk / tel 020 7211 5174. UK Sport: 40 Bernard St, London, WC1N 1ST - www.uksport.gov.uk If you do not want to receive this newsletter in the future, please click here to unsubscribe.