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Team GB's Olympic and Paralympic curling teams are opening the new National Curling Academy today (23 August), with the £3.15m (US$4m, €3.4m) facility the first ... More

UK Sport’s ‘no compromise’ approach to funding elite sport “needs a rethink”, according Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. Talking to Sports Management the former Paralympic champion said ... More

The International Union of Architects (UIA) has awarded its top honour to the Japanese architect Toyo Ito in celebration of his lifetime achievements in the ... More

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded the National Paralympic Heritage Trust £1m (US$1.3m, €1.1m) to establish a heritage centre in the UK chronicling the ... More

A number of winter sports have had their UK Sport funding awards altered ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. Bobsleigh and figure ... More

Sport England has committed £6m (US$7.8m, €6.8m) to its scheme that helps young athletes balance the demands of training and competing with academic life. TASS ... More

British Cycling’s “single-minded pursuit” of winning medals contributed to a “culture of fear” experienced by many athletes in its World Class Programme, an independent report ... More

The Bannatyne Group has teamed up with Becky Adlington’s SwimStars to offer children the chance to learn to swim. Clubs in Livingston, Stepps, Dumfries and ... More

British Triathlon Federation chief executive Jack Buckner is moving on to become CEO of British Swimming. Buckner will replace retiring chief executive David Sparkes in ... More

“Isolated” incidents of alleged bullying and duty of care failures within some Olympic sports are not a consequence of an “obsession” with winning medals, according ... More

London 2012 gold medallist Dame Katherine Grainger has been appointed as the new chair of UK Sport. Britain’s most decorated female Olympic athlete – who ... More

UK Sport has dismissed criticisms that it has failed in its duty of care to athletes following high profile allegations of bullying within sports that ... More

UK Sport has decided against funding wheelchair tennis’ world-class programme ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games, despite the Rio 2016 team bringing home six medals ... More

Julie Harrington – the woman responsible for running Wembley Stadium for the Football Association (FA) – has been appointed to head up under-fire governing body ... More

A report suggesting that the vast majority of the British public was not inspired by Team GB’s medal success at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games ... More

UK Sport has rejected representations made by six Olympic sports for Tokyo 2020 funding – a decision labeled “staggering” by Badminton England. The national governing ... More

The sport sector needs to be more proactive in analysing whether athletes are being pushed too far in pursuit of medal success, according to the ... More

Mark England and Penny Briscoe – the two individuals who oversaw Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s success at the Rio 2016 Olympics – have been recognised ... More

Sportscotland’s “biggest-ever” capital investment in tennis signifies the body’s intention to put sport front and centre of national consciousness, according to its chair Mel Young. ... More

The success experienced by Team GB’s gymnastic squad at the Rio 2016 Olympics has contributed to further growth in grassroots participants. Recreational club participation grew ... More

The chief executive of UK Sport has defended the quango’s decision to cut funding to five Olympic sports, but acknowledged it would cause a “devastating ... More

The national governing bodies (NGB) for basketball, handball and volleyball have joined forces to call on UK Sport to ringfence at least 10 per cent ... More

Elite sports funding body UK Sport has left four Olympic sports – archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting - without funding for the 2020 Games in ... More

British Swimming has made changes to the way its National Centres operate in an attempt to capitalise on a strong Rio 2016 Olympic Games. From ... More

Several coaches behind the success of Great Britain during the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics have become the first to graduate from UK Sport’s Elite ... More