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UK Sport Newsletter | 06 March 2008

LATEST NEWS FROM UK SPORT BRITISH BASKETBALL FEATURES IN MARCH PODCAST British Basketball is the focus for this month's UK Sport Podcast, as we take a look at the huge progress made by both the GB men's and women's teams in what has been a relatively short space of time. Read more SEVEN BRITISH BOXERS NOW QUALIFIED FOR BEIJING British boxers Khalid Yafai, James Degale and Billy Joe Saunders have secured qualification for Team GB in Beijing this summer, adding to the four places previously claimed by Frankie Gavin, Joe Murray, Bradley Saunders and Tony Jeffries at last year's World Amateur Championships in Chicago. Read more REVISED CODE PUBLISHED BY WADA The revised version of the World Anti-Doping Code has been published by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The Code, which was approved last November at the World Conference on Doping in Sport after an 18 month period of consultation, will come into force on 1 January 2009. Read more SHEFFIELD BACK ON DIVING WORLD STAGE The FINA Diving World Series returns to Sheffield this spring for the second year in a row, bringing the worlds best divers to the UK. With support from UK Sport's World Class Events Programme and partners from Sheffield and the Yorkshire region, the event looks to be even bigger than the first. Read more DRUGS TESTS FOR THE YEAR HIT 5,000 MARK Over 5,000 drugs tests covering almost 50 sports have been conducted by UK Sport, the National Anti-Doping Agency, between April and December 2007. Read more REPORT SHOWS BUSINESS HOW TO "TAKE MORE OF A SPORTING CHANCE" A huge opportunity exists to harness sport's potential to address development issues in health, gender equality, youth development and social inclusion, a newly published report has found. Read more Subscribe to UK Sport RSS feed. IN BRIEF News from the UK's high performance sports community, including updates from Badminton, Judo, Modern Pentathlon and Sailing UK SPORT PODCAST TICKET BOOTH 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.