John Scott, UK Sport's International Director and Director of Drug-Free Sport, has been announced as Chief Executive of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. He will take up his new post in August 2008.
Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials is bidding to host the 2011 FEI European Eventing Championships - supported by UK Sport's National Lottery funded World Class Events Programme.
UK Sport announced this week that British Swimming and the Amateur Swimming Association have become the first sports bodies to achieve the Intermediate level of the Equality Standard for Sport.
Britain's first ever Beach Volleyball World Championships will come to Brighton later this year, bringing one of the most colourful Olympic sports to Britain for the first time. The U21 World Championships will be staged between 3-7 September, just one week after the Beijing Olympic Games, marking the start of the road to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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