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Chelsea Warr, the UK Sport performance director, has stepped down from her role to join the Queensland Academy of Sport as chief executive later this ... More

English Institute of Sport (EIS) national director Nigel Walker believes that the organisation is now among the leading national sports science and medicine institutions in ... More

Sir David Tanner has announced he will step down as the performance director of British Rowing after overseeing GB Rowing Team’s richest ever period of ... More

Alun Powell, the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) head of regional academies, has been appointed as the national talent manager at the England and Wales Cricket ... More

Not-for-profit health body ukactive has launched a new scholarship initiative to fast-track talented disabled people into senior leadership positions across the physical activity sector. The ... More

The future success of Great Britain and England’s hockey teams will be in the hands of a new performance director following a stellar Olympic Games ... More

Up to 50 female rugby players will be chosen to take part in Scottish Rugby’s (SRU) first Performance Development Programme after the axing of the ... More

As we reach the final countdown for the Rio 2016 Games, one event we can be certain won’t be happening is the 2026 Commonwealth Games ... More

UK Sport has set out its medal ambitions ahead of Rio 2016 next month, with the high performance sports agency aiming to achieve its best ... More

UK Sport’s latest talent identification process will open the door to more young athletes from deprived and ethnic minority backgrounds, according to chief executive Liz ... More

UK Sport has launched what it has described as “the biggest multi-sport talent identification campaign in British history” in an attempt to fast-track aspiring athletes ... More

Increasing the number of women and girls participating in rugby and developing player pathways has been revealed as a strategic priority for Harlequins. The London-based ... More

UK Sport is redoubling its efforts to boost the numbers of elite athletes in canoeing, skeleton and martial arts with the launch of talent identification ... More

UK Sport and British Cycling have teamed up to launch a talent identification programme which aims to encourage promising athletes in other sports to take ... More

The Football Association (FA) is working on a “key measurement” system which will gauge the performance of England teams beyond match results and tournament progression. ... More

Author and former Labour party aide Alastair Campbell will be among the keynote speakers at this year’s Leadership Convention on sport – organised by the ... More

Fitness First has kicked off the countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games by working with Team GB to launch a new Sports Profiler Tool ... More

GB Basketball has secured an emergency £1.18m funding package from Sport England to support the Team GB elite teams. The funding will contribute to the ... More

Lizzy Yarnold's skeleton gold medal at the Sochi Olympics on Friday was only the 10th gold in British winter Olympic history - a history which ... More

UK Sport has revealed details of its four-year funding cycle that will see a record £347m being invested in elite sport during the run up ... More