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Britain has won its first gold medal of the Games with a convincing victory in the sailing as Shirley Robertson and her Yngling crew proved themselves to be untouchable with a race to spare

New research has revealed that 66% of the British public believe that without National Lottery funding through UK Sport, the British team would not be able to achieve tenth place or higher in the Olympic Games medals table

With preparations for the Athens Olympics now about to enter their final phase, the British Olympic Association and UK Sport today announced an £800,000 investment by UK Sport in Team GB's pre-Games preparation camps

With some 36 days to go until the 2004 Olympics get underway, UK Sport today looked beyond Athens and announced the funding package available to support leading athletes up to the next summer Games in Beijing 2008

Sports in the UK are being invited to nominate their rising stars of coaching to take part in a ground-breaking new <i>Elite Coach</i> acceleration programme, co-ordinated by UK Sport

London 2012 has announced a refocus of the bid leadership following its success in being short-listed as a Candidate City for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

The International Olympic Committee announced today that London - along with Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris - has made it on to the short-list of cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

With just 100 days to go until the start of the 2004 Olympic Games, Britain's leading sportsmen and women have said that UK Sport's World Class Performance Programme has made a vital difference to their training and competition

Former British Cycling Performance Director Peter Keen will be joining UK Sport as Performance Adviser from the beginning of April 2004

Two announcements in recent weeks - by UK Sport and Sport England - are set to have a significant effect on the way that Olympic sports are supported by the Sports Councils