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Women's Rugby World Cup reports highlight positive impact on England and the global game

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

Twenty-four female athletes who responded to Victoria Pendleton's call for Girls4Gold last summer attended an intensive five day camp with British Cycling last week, all bidding for the once in a lifetime opportunity to earn a place on a development programme with one of Great Britain's most successful Olympic sports

Girls4Gold Ambassador Shelley Rudman was recently crowned European Champion and is currently top of the world rankings. Meanwhile, athletes recruited via the Girls4Gold talent identification campaign have been attending talent assessment camps for the winter Olympic sport at the University of Bath

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

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

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