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UK Sport is delighted to announce the 12 emerging high performance coaches.

UK Sport has today taken a major step to secure a more certain environment for Olympic and Paralympic sports in the current economic climate, with the combination of vital new investment from the Team 2012 initiative and adjustments to funding awards allowing for the mission to London to be kept firmly on track

Britain's elite sports professionals congregated at The Belfry for the opening of UK Sport's World Class Performance Conference.

Team 2012 was launched this week with leading payment system Visa announced as its Presenting Partner. It represents a huge new ambition for British sport, and is the largest national team ever sponsored, comprising approximately 1200 athletes from 47 sports and disciplines, Olympic and Paralympic alike

UK Sport's Podium Innovation Partner, BAE Systems, has installed a sophisticated performance monitoring system at the Manchester Velodrome to give British cyclists a further edge in training

UK Sport's Director of Performance, Peter Keen, reflects on the post-Beijing Mission 2012 reports, which were issued last week

Britain's Olympians and Paralympians return to competition with encouraging evidence the success of Beijing is being built on.

Zena Woolridge has been appointed Vice President of the European Squash Federation (ESF) and will sit on its Executive Board

Following a rigorous selection process, fourteen candidates have been selected to take part in the third year of UK Sport's International Leadership Programme (ILP) in 2009

UK Sport's reflects on the period of change, challenge and consolidation that has taken place since the turn of the year