UK Sport is delighted to announce that Matt Favier has been appointed as Head of Performance Solutions and will join the Performance team, led by Peter Keen, at the end of June.
Competing in their first international test since the Paralympic Games, over 400 athletes from 40 countries around the world are looking to continue the impressive form they showed in Beijing as they arrive in Manchester to compete at the 2009 BT Paralympic World Cup.
Team Leaders from the summer Olympic sports that aim to be part of Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games were brought together by the British Olympic Association (BOA) to accelerate planning and preparations this week.
Nora Perry MBE has been elected to the Council of Badminton World Federation (BWF). The former world champion polled the fifth highest number of votes at the BWF's annual meeting in Guangzhou, China, earlier this month.
For the first time since London won the bid in 2005 to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Lord Sebastian Coe had an opportunity to see how schools in Nottinghamshire and their partners in Brazil have already started to deliver the vision of a lasting legacy for young people via International Inspiration.
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