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UK Sport Newsletter | 26 February 2009

LATEST NEWS FROM UK SPORT UNIQUE NEW FUNDRAISING PARTNERSHIP FOR ELITE SPORT AS LOCOG, UK SPORT, BOA AND BPA JOIN FORCES The raising of private sector funds to support Olympic and Paralympic sport took a major step forward this week with the announcement of a groundbreaking new partnership – Team 2012 - which features all the major organizations involved in supporting British elite sport. Read more WADA: WHEREABOUTS HERE TO STAY The World Anti-Doping Agency has this week re-iterated that sports and athletes should allow more time to adjust to the new whereabouts regulations which came into place on 1 January 2009. Read more GIRLS4GOLD RISE TO BRITISH CYCLING'S CHALLENGE Twenty-four female athletes who responded to Victoria Pendleton's call for Girls4Gold last summer attended an intensive five day camp with British Cycling last week, all bidding for the once in a lifetime opportunity to earn a place on a development programme with one of Great Britain's most successful Olympic sports. Read more INTERNATIONAL NETWORK LAUNCHED BY UK SPORT UK Sport launched its National Governing Body (NGB) International Network last week at Wembley Stadium. Read more WLDP PARTICIPANT APPOINTED TO 2018 WORLD CUP BID TEAM Jane Bateman, a participant on the Women and Leadership Development Programme (WLDP) which is a joint UK Sport, CCPR and British Olympic Foundation initiative, has recently been appointed as Director of Campaign Operations for England 2018, one of six directors within England's World Cup Bid team. Read more UKA ON THE START LINE WITH EIS UK Athletics (UKA) have formally confirmed their partnership investment with the English Institute of Sport (EIS). Read more UK SPORT WELCOMES LEWIS APPOINTMENT AS SPORT ENGLAND CHAIR Richard Lewis has been appointed the new Chair of Sport England, effective from 1 April 2009. Lewis, currently Executive Chair of the Rugby Football League, automatically takes a seat on the UK Sport Board as a result. Read more Subscribe to UK Sport RSS feed. LATEST NEWS FROM NGBs Click here for the latest news from the UK's high performance sports community FORTHCOMING EVENTS TRAIN LIKE CHAMPIONS Could you Train Like A Champion? 100% ME JOBS IN SPORT The 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.