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25 September 2001
The Road to Athens: Lee Fawcett
In his most recent Road to Athens diary, wheelchair basketball player Lee Fawcett talks about how illness has set his training back,...
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24 September 2001
Disappointing end to 49er Worlds
Paul Brotherton and Simon Hiscocks, in 7th place, were the highest placed British sailors as the 2001 49er World Championships concl...
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21 September 2001
National Director appointed for English Institute
Sport England has announced the appointment of Wilma Shakespear as the new National Director of the English Institute of Sport, part...
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20 September 2001
Haile Gebrselassie targets Bristol
Haile Gebrselassie, one of the world's all-time great distance runners, will make his international half marathon debut at the IAAF ...
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20 September 2001
UK Sports Institute joins global team
UK Sports Institute Director, Roger Moreland, has been appointed to a global working group determining the future nature of collabor...
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20 September 2001
Four GB crews through to Gold Fleet
Alister Richardson and Peter Greenhalgh led the way as four Great Britain crews made the Gold Fleet at the 2001 49er World Champions...
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20 September 2001
Gold medallist uses EIS facilities
World Championship Gold medallist Nicola Jackson has moved to Bath to take advantage of swimming facilities at the English Institute...
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20 September 2001
British Gymnastics members elected to UEG
Five members of British Gymnastics were elected members of the European Gymnastics Union (UEG) Authorities at the 18th UEG Congress ...
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19 September 2001
British Cycling names World Road team
Olympic Bronze medallist Yvonne McGregor is included in the 33-strong Great Britain team for the World Road Cycling Championships in...
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19 September 2001
England Netball launch Hall of Fame
Over two hundred guests attended a Gala Dinner hosted by the All England Netball Association on Saturday to mark the 75th Anniversar...
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18 September 2001
World 470 Silver for British pair
Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield followed up their successes at the Hyeres and Spa Regattas earlier in the season with a Silver medal a...
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18 September 2001
Cooke finds ingredients for success
Welsh cycling phenomenon Nicole Cooke led a successful medal charge by British riders at the World Mountain Bike Championships in Co...
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17 September 2001
Coach of the year nominations open
Nominations are open for the England Coach of the Year Awards 2001. Organised by sports coach UK on behalf of Sport England, the awa...
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14 September 2001
Wales paired with England at M2002
The draw for the 2002 Commonwealth Games netball competition was made this week and Wales have been drawn with England.
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14 September 2001
Rogers & Glanfield stay in contention
The winds that had eluded the 470 Sailing World Championships all week in Koper, Slovakia, finally returned yesterday to allow a ful...
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13 September 2001
UK Athletics secures £20m sponsorship
UK Athletics today announced a new sponsorship commitment from Norwich Union worth £20 million pounds over the next five years. The...
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13 September 2001
Sports acrobats head over heels
The country's top gymnasts have received a major boost following an announcement from Sport England that a high performance sports a...
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13 September 2001
Team England set to be biggest ever
445 athletes and 188 officials will form part of Team England at Manchester 2002, according to a report given to the Commonwealth Ga...
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13 September 2001
Japanese highlight integrated approach
Dr Scott Drawer, Research Co-ordinator at the UK Sports Institute, recently attended the opening of the Japanese Institute of Sports...
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13 September 2001
Three Golds so far at Paralympic champs
The Great Britain team has won three Gold medals so far at the European Paralympic Cycling Championships in Switzerland. Rik Waddon,...
