Newsletter - Young Scottish Footballers Offered New Olympic Goal

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UK Sport Newsletter | 23 April 2009

LATEST NEWS FROM UK SPORT YOUNG SCOTTISH FOOTBALLERS OFFERED NEW OLYMPIC GOAL UK Sport and the Scottish and English Institutes of Sport (SIS/EIS), together with the PFA Scotland, are today offering apprentice football players who may be released from Scottish clubs the chance to take up a new challenge and switch their talents to Olympic sports via their Pitch2Podium initiative. Read more ILP NAMES THIRD YEAR INTAKE Following a rigorous selection process, fourteen candidates have been selected to take part in the third year of UK Sport's International Leadership Programme (ILP) in 2009. Read more UK SPORT AND EIS DRIVING INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION TO GIVE ATHLETES THE EDGE According to a study carried out for the first time by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10% (average figure) of all athletes participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games had to be treated for injury, and in certain sports the risk rose to 15% of all athletes. Read more FAST-TRACK PRACTITIONER INTERN GAINING WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCE  As the British squad prepare for the World Table Tennis Championships in Japan which begin next week, English Institute of Sport (EIS) Performance Analyst and Fast-Track Practitoner Programme (FPP) intern, Chris Loxton, will be amongst the travelling party as they look to pick up valuable experience in their preparations leading up to London 2012. Read more Subscribe to UK Sport RSS feed. LATEST NEWS FROM NGBs Click here for this week's news from the UK's high performance sports community FORTHCOMING EVENTS TICKET BOOTH 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.