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April 2 - Ed Wright (pictured) bagged Britain’s only gold on the final day of the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Palma, with British sailors picking up a total of five medals from the opening leg of the European regatta today.
January 24 - Britain's double Olympic gold medallist Sarah Ayton (pictured) is to make her first appearance since the Beijing Games when she competes in the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, which starts tomorrow.
January 9 - British crews filled half of the places in the top ten at the 49er World Championships, which finished in Nassau today, but failed to win a medal for the first time since 2001.
January 3 - British sailing’s top 49er crews will look to continue their impressive World Championship record when racing at the Seiko 49er World Championship gets underway in the Bahamas tomorrow.
December 31 - John Derbyshire (pictured), the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) performance director and racing manager, is celebrating being recognised with an OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours List.
December 27 -Team Origin, the British America's Cup team headed by London 2012 deputy chairman Sir Keith Mills, has announced their intention of securing a venue in the UK to host a Louis Vuitton Trophy event as early as August or September next year or during the 2011 season.
DECEMBER 22 - BRITAIN'S sailing’s golden girls, Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson, today announced that they have raced for the last time as a trio following the controversial removal of the Yngling class from the 2012 Olympic Games.
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November 28 - London 2012 and international officials have praised the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) since the award winning venue’s official construction completion 12 months ago.
October 12 - Britain's Shirley Robertson, the two-time Olympic gold medallist, today refused to entirely rule out a campaign to try to win a third at the London 2012 Games.
October 12 - Sarah Treseder, a lifelong sailor, has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Royal Yachting Association (RYA), it has been announced.
By Tom Degun
September 16 - Becoming the skipper of the first British team to lift the America's Cup will not get in the way of Ben Ainslie (pictured) trying to make history at the 2012 Olympics, he promised today.
September 10 - Britain’s Nick Dempsey (pictured) claimed the biggest windsurfing victory of his career when he won the RS:X World Championships in Weymouth and Portland today.
September 7 - Reunited crew Paul Brotherton and Mark Asquith have claimed an impressive silver medal at sailing’s 49er European Championship in Zadar, Croatia.
August 26 - Olympic Laser champion Paul Goodison (pictured) has added a long-awaited first World Championship title to his belt, claiming an emphatic gold which drew to a close in Halifax, Canada, today.
June 4 - Perth has unveiled its logo and a new development programme for the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships, one of the key qualifying events for the London 2012 Olympics.
When British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in ice dance at Sarajevo 1984 with 12 perfect 6.0s from every judge, for their interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, an important member of their team was singer-actor Michael Crawford. Crawford, who had played Frank Spencer in British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and the title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera, had become a mentor to the pair in 1981 and went on to help them create their Olympic routine. Crawford said he “taught them how to act". He was present with their trainer Betty Callaway at the ringside at Sarajevo as they created one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history.
Reporting to and working closely with the Events Director – Technical Operations, the Head of Technical Officials is responsible for day-to-day management of the Technical Officials programmes within the Events Department, including:
Management of day-to-day technical officials operations including tournament assignments and planning;
Management and development of the professional technical officials workforce including referees, umpires, and tournament doctors;
Technical officials policy development through consultation with key stakeholder groups including commissions, panels, Continental Confederations and working groups;
Innovation initiatives within the technical officials area to enhance officiating accuracy and sport presentation; and
Technical officials pathway development including working with Continental Confederations and Member Associations on recruitment, education, training, and development initiatives.
Pierre de Coubertin once said cricket has "practically no appeal for those who are not British". While he expressed doubts about the Olympic viability of cricket, lacrosse and baseball, Philip Barker wonders how the man who helped revive the modern Games would have reacted to new sports at Los Angeles 2028.
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