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Bill Sweetenham, Britain’s former performance director, recently warned that Britain’s coaches could be enticed abroad after 2012. The 60 year-old said: “They have moved on from the old school thinking of yesteryear and there are a lot of young coaches today who could find a job anywhere in the world.” Adlington returned from five weeks [...]
Before Christmas Munich bid committee officials issued a statement saying ”negotiations and talks are still in progress with the small percentage of landowners whose properties are impacted by the visionary plans.” The team stressed there are contingency plans in place, but the reality is they wil hve to relocate key alpine races if the local [...]
”Horse Guards is six weeks to get on site after the Trooping the Colour is complete and Greenwich Park is a bit more time, but the aim is to make sure we take as little of the park for as small a time as public so the stadium goes up and then the site is [...]
Insiders say that the trust between England and Fifa is at an all time low but that this issue, which Blatter also considers of important because of his elevated status within the Olympic Movement – could help re-establish a working relationship between England and the Zurich football headquarters. However the BOA has to also encourage [...]
Bill Sweetenham, Britain’s former performance director, recently warned that Britain’s coaches could be enticed abroad after 2012. The 60 year-old said: “They have moved on from the old school thinking of yesteryear and there are a lot of young coaches today who could find a job anywhere in the world.” Adlington returned from five weeks [...]
Paul Deighton, the London 2012 chief executive, said: “The sheer scale of this is mind-blowing. Just the operational stuff is mind-blowing.” The real pressure will come when the application system goes live in what London 2012 chairman Lord Coe has described as the “daddy of all ticketing strategies”. Mr Deighton added: “One of the key [...]
Just as impressively the Flint teenager, 17, saw off competition from Sarah Stevenson, Aaron Cook, both senior European gold medallists in 2010, and Bianca Walkden to claim the BOA award.
“Zoe is an amazing talent but we all know that any athlete with talent still has to work hard if they are to realise their true potential,” BWL Performance Manager Fiona Lothian said. “On World Class Programmes athletes are funded not only because they are good, but because they are willing to work hard to [...]
To do so, she intends to wipe the slate clean and put her past Olympic success firmly behind her. “I’m done with the Olympics,” she said. “There comes a time when you have to put the Olympics aside, put the past aside, otherwise you will never move on. “When you have retired and put your [...]
Later on Monday the Prime Minister David Cameron is to announce a re-think on another related matter – the withdrawal of funding of school sport at an educational level. The BOA has told the government it wants the Youth Sport Trust involved, but at the intra school and local levels with the BOA along with [...]
