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The weekend may have been a disappointment for football fans in England but the weekend couldn’t have gone any better for one British World University Games tennis star at Wimbledon.

British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) is pleased to announce two appointments to the Great Britain leadership team for the Summer World University Games (WUGs) taking place in Shenzhen, China in 2011. Graeme Maw was appointed this month as Team GBR’s Chef de Mission who will...

This week sees four representatives representing Great Britain on behalf of BUCS in Vigo, Spain at the 10th FISU Forum.

The Government backed Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) is leading the way in empowering performance athletes to continue in education.
The achievements and recognition of the English based programme, launched in 2004, were recognised this week by the involvement of International keynote speakers at their National Conference. The IOC’s Senior Sports Manager Jean-Laurent Bourquin and Stephen Norris, the man behind Canada’s medal charge at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games were both involved.

Loughborough University has been selected by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as The Official Preparation Camp Headquarters for Team GB prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Britain's David Atkinson finished 29th competing in his first modern pentathlon World Cup final in Cairo on Sunday. The medical student from the University of Liverpool was Britain's sole representative in the men’s final after qualifying from Friday’s semis. Atkinson...