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Tuesday, July 26, 2011olympics 2012sportolympic games

London 2012: 'Across the board, across all medals we're preparing well'

Archery: Sara Symington We are having a good year and are making good progress but there is a lot of hard work to be done Athletics: Charles van Commenee We are working hard towards success at London 2012 with a target of eight medals including one gold Swimming: David Sparkes With a year to go an important test for us is the performance at the world championships in Shanghai Badminton: Adrian Christy For many of our squad this will be their first Olympic Games and our coaching team are focused on giving our players every chance to succeed Basketball: Chris Spice We have an important test event at the Olympic Park in August, which will be critical in preparing for 2012 Boxing: Rob McCracken The boxers have shown they can compete with the very best in the world and their results augur well for 2012 Cycling: Dave Brailsford With a year to go we're well placed and optimistic. Across the board, across all the medals, we're preparing well Equestrian: Will Connell We have had some very exciting results this year across all the disciplines which bodes well for the future Fencing: Alex Newton I am positive about the future. We just need to make sure that the focus is on the right things Gymnastics: Tim Jones This Olympic cycle has been our best ever and we are eagerly looking forward to the challenges in London Handball: Lorraine Brown Recent performances show that the British handball teams remain on track to reach their target at the Games Hockey: David Faulkner Both England teams sit fourth in the world, putting Great Britain in a strong position for a place on the podium Judo: Margaret Hicks We need to ensure there is a positive feeling behind the players, who are working hard to be selected for 2012 Pentathlon: Jan Bartu A lot of hard preparation has gone into the peak of the season and most of the indicators are positive Rowing: David Tanner The squad we will be sending to the 2011 world championships is the strongest we've ever sent and is on track to do well in London 2012 Sailing: John Derbyshire The recent Gold World Cup Regatta, where British sailors won seven medals across the 10 Olympic classes provides us with confidence that our training programmes are bearing fruit Shooting: Phil Scanlan We are happy with our position to date and are now seeing the benefit of the hard work put in during training Table tennis Richard :Yule With one year to go British Table Tennis are concentrating on training hard in China this summer Taekwondo: Gary Hall Taekwondo has made significant performance progress. There is still a lot of hard work to be done but hard work is what we enjoy and accept Triathlon: Heather Williams Four athletes have achieved podium finishes in the world championship series this year, indicating that we are performing at the highest level Volleyball: Kenny Barton I have no doubt that our exceptional athletes will make the nation proud in the lead up to the Games and at the Games themselves Weightlifting: Fiona Lothian Good progress is being made. Several athletes are on track to hit the A standard and a couple of long-term injuries have been resolved Wrestling: Shaun Morley We've been winning medals at international events in Europe and had some good results at last year's world championships

Source: The Guardian ↗

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