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30 August 2001
Sports Science under the spotlight
How sports science can be further developed to benefit elite sport will be one of the major issues tackled at the British Associatio...
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30 August 2001
Fiery welcome for Canoe Marathon
Princess Anne will join athletes from 34 nations at the official opening of the 9th World Canoe Marathon Championships in Stockton-o...
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30 August 2001
Let our football do the talking
The bizarre language of football is to be used as an imaginative educational tool for over 120,000 English students worldwide in a n...
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30 August 2001
World Record coup for Velodrome
One of the world's top female track cyclists - Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel - has chosen the Manchester Velodrome for her attempt o...
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29 August 2001
The Road to Athens: Emma Brown
Disability powerlifter Emma Brown has had a very busy summer in the run-up to the European Championships in October.
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29 August 2001
Styles & May claim Tornado Silver
One year on from the Sydney Olympics, where Team GB won the sailing regatta with 3 Gold and 2 Silver medals, a new-look British squa...
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28 August 2001
UK Athletics names Half Marathon team
UK Athletics has announced the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team for the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Bristol in ...
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28 August 2001
Great Britain equals record medal haul
Great Britain secured second place in the final medal table at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne as the women's lightwe...
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28 August 2001
Water Skiers dominate World Games
Great Britain's Lottery-backed Water Ski squad dominated the podium at the 2001 World Games in Akita over the weekend with four of t...
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24 August 2001
Sailors back in competition
One year on from the Sydney Olympics, where Team GB won the sailing regatta, a new-look British squad has been going through its pac...
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24 August 2001
Rowers on course for world success
Both the GB men's and women's pair qualified for the medal finals on the first day of semi-finals at the 2001 World Rowing Champio...
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23 August 2001
Track team gets world class manager
British Cycling's World Class Performance Programme has signalled its intention to make Britain the world's leading track cycling na...
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23 August 2001
The Road to Athens: Nick Dempsey
The Mistral World Championships are taking place in Athens this week and Road to Athens diarist Nick Dempsey talks about the lead-up...
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23 August 2001
Freestylers seek Olympic qualification
As Britain basks in sunshine, a record number of British Freestyle skiers have headed down under to train and compete in Australia i...
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23 August 2001
BPA unveils new-look management team
The British Paralympic Association this week unveiled a new-look management team designed to prepare and organise British teams at t...
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23 August 2001
British success continues in Lucerne
All four Great Britain crews racing on the second day of repechages at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne yesterday qual...
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23 August 2001
Golden start to World University Games
Wednesday 22 August saw the official opening of the World University Games by the Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, following a specta...
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22 August 2001
World University Games underway
The 21st World University Games got underway in Beijing today, and Great Britain's Basketball team made a winning start to their cam...
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22 August 2001
Men's eight through to medal final
The Great Britain men's lightweight eight edged out Australia in a tight finish to win their repechage on day three of the 2001 Worl...
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22 August 2001
Funnell defends title on Supreme Rock
Reigning champion Pippa Funnell has been selected to defend her title with Supreme Rock at this year's European Three-Day Eventing C...
