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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

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

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

Great Britain managed to add one more medal to the tally on the last day of sport at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. The men's basketball team, under coach Dave Titmuss, beat the Netherlands 82-66 in a solid win to take the bronze medal

The British team returned home last week having secured second place in the final medal tables at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. A total of 94 medals were won, including 35 gold

Nine of the nation's most promising coaches came together last week at the start of a journey aimed at placing them on a fast track to coaching excellence

The Global Sports Impact Project is a study by Sportcal which has analysed over 700 major sporting events between 2008-2019.

Future Paralympic stars will have the chance to be fast-tracked on the road to Rio 2016 thanks to an exciting new initiative.

A UK delegation travelled to the Seychelles to meet with a committee to deliver their recommendations.

Last week saw the start of the journey of the first ten coaches selected to UK Sport's ground breaking new 'Elite Programme'