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    UK Athletics welcomes £40 million award

    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
    21 May 2002
    Published: 21 May 2002
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    UK Sport breaks through £100m barrier

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    16 May 2002
    Published: 16 May 2002
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    Technology gives UK the winning edge

    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.
    08 May 2002
    Published: 08 May 2002
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    UK Sport invests £1.7M in Paralympic 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
    02 May 2002
    Published: 02 May 2002
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    UK Sport looks to the future

    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
    26 February 2002
    Published: 26 February 2002
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    Curlers stress value of Institute support

    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
    22 February 2002
    Published: 22 February 2002
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    Martin skips curlers to Gold in Salt Lake

    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
    22 February 2002
    Published: 22 February 2002
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    Alex Coomber wins Team GB's first medal

    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
    21 February 2002
    Published: 21 February 2002
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    Sports science boost for British sport

    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
    13 December 2001
    Published: 13 December 2001
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    UK Sport welcomes funding review

    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
    11 September 2001
    Published: 11 September 2001
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