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The Commonwealth Games drew to a close last night in Manchester, and the final weekend of action saw a host of medals for the home countries

The principles of a national framework for women's sport in the UK were agreed last week at a two-day workshop at Bisham Abbey hosted by the UK Co-ordinating Group on Women and Sport

Taekwondo has been given a massive boost in its bid for success on the world stage and increased popularity at home, becoming the latest sport to benefit from UK Sport's World Class Performance Programme

UK Athletics has welcomed a £40 million funding package following the abandoned attempt to stage the 2005 IAAF World Athletics Championships at Picketts Lock in North London

UK Sport will shortly unveil its new Lottery Strategy, coinciding with the announcement that the organisation's awards to sport have passed through the £100 million barrier

UK Sports Institute, which delivers tailored services to individual sports and athletes, is currently working with a number of technology partners to help bring innovative solutions to those working within British sport.

UK Sport has released details of a massive £1.7 million investment programme in Paralympic sport to support the British team for the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens

It may only be just over 24 hours since the Olympic flame was extinguished in Salt Lake City, but UK Sport today announced that it is already making plans for Turin 2006

The women's curling team, led by skip Rhona Martin, won Great Britain's first Gold medal at a Winter Olympics since 1984 with victory over Switzerland in a dramatic final on Thursday

Rhona Martin, the newly-crowned women's Olympic Curling champion, today explained how cutting edge technology had a major part to play in the British team's dramatic gold rush

Alex Coomber won Britain's first medal in Salt Lake after finishing third in the Bob Skeleton on day thirteen of the Games. The women's curling team are assured of at least a Silver after making the final

A new DCMS report examining the enormous impact that the National Lottery has had on sport at all levels since tickets first went on sale seven years ago has been released

Sports science support available to Britain's leading athletes and coaches will be improved following an agreement between the UK Sports Institute and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science

UK Sport Chairman Sir Rodney Walker today welcomed Dr Jack Cunningham's report into the funding of elite sport and promised that his organisation would approach the report's recommendations with an open mind

The British Olympic Association has welcomed the IOC's decision to award Beijing the 2008 Olympics, and has said it will continue to investigate the possibility of bidding for the 2012 Games

Sport England have announced an award of up to £23,540,000 for the English Institute of Sport Sheffield project. This multi-sport facility forms part of the UK Sports Institute network

A one million pound four-year plan was unveiled this week by UK Athletics to give the UK's leading athletes unprecedented scientific support through to the 2004 Olympic Games and beyond

British sliders have been given a performance boost in their ambition to dominate the sport of Bob Skeleton, following UK Sports Institute training in the use of video and coaching analysis software

New UK Sport research, published recently, highlights the impact of the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics on the UK public's sporting preferences

British sport's Performance Directors were given the cutting edge business tools to help them win Gold at future major championships at a seminar organised by the UK Sports Institute