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September 17, 2008
BT Ambassador Ade Adepitan replaced David Beckham as the star of the eight-minute handover show at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Paralympic Games today...

September 17, 2008
Team GB passed the magic ton on the final day of the Paralympic Games, finishing with 102 medals – 42 golds, 29 silvers and 31 bronze...

September 16, 2008
Great Britain’s seven-a-side Cerebral Palsy football team finished the Paralympic Gameson a high thrashing host nation China 10-2 this morning...

September 15, 2008
Team GB won eight gold medals this weekend, exceeding their original target of 40, and they still have three days to go...

September 12, 2008
The British Paralympians are currently sitting on 33 gold medals, only two short of the total haul of golds Team GB won in Athens in 2004...

September 10, 2008
Team GB is sitting firmly in second place with an impressive 21 golds, only four behind host nation China. The swimming and cycling teams have seen the most success with records broken and medals won left, right and centre...

September 9, 2008
The Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games on Saturday night has been hailed as "spectacular, passionate and moving" by the world’s media...

August 26, 2008
BT Ambassadors Ben Ainslie, Chris Hoy and Shanaze Reade arrived home yesterday and are already planning their medal assault on London in four years time...

August 24, 2008
The curtain was drawn on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Sunday night as BT Ambassador and triple gold medal hero Chris Hoy carried the Union Flag into the Bird’s Nest Stadium during the Closing Ceremony...

August 23, 2008
Great Britain has enjoyed its most successful Games in 100 years winning 19 gold, 13 silver and 15 bronze medals...

August 22, 2008
BT Ambassador Shanaze Reade suffered a crash in the final of the BMX this morning in pursuit of a gold medal - putting her completely out of all medal contention...

August 21, 2008
BT Ambassador Shanaze Reade has to wait an anxious 24 hours as the BMX semi-finals and finals were postponed until tomorrow due to heavy rain this morning at the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course in Beijing...

August 20, 2008
BT Ambassador Shanaze Reade kicked off her Olympic campaign today by setting the second fastest time of the day to reach the BMX semi-finals...

August 19, 2008
Today BT Ambassador and Scottish Olympic hero Chris Hoy became the first Briton to win three golds at one Olympic Games for 100 years...

August 18, 2008
Over the last 24 hours international media have been describing BT Ambassador Ben Ainslie’s third consecutive gold medal win as “majestic” and having “destroyed the opposition”...

August 17, 2008
After BT Ambassador Chris Hoy brought up 700 medals for Great Britain yesterday, it was fellow BT Ambassador Ben Ainslie’s turn to break more Brit records today...

August 16, 2008
Team GB won its 700th medal of the modern Olympic Games in possibly the most successful day in British Olympic History with four gold, one silver and four bronze medals spread across a number of different sports...

August 15, 2008
BT Ambassador Chris Hoy and his track cycling team mates Jamie Staff and Jason Kenny have picked up Britain’s third gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Game...

August 14, 2008
BT Ambassador Ben Ainslie’s races were cancelled on day six of the Games due to a completely windless day in Qingdao...

August 13, 2008
British cyclist Emma Pooley has picked up silver in the women’s individual road race - Team GB’s second cycling medal and seventh medal overall at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games...

August 12, 2008
Britain’s first silver medal of the Beijing Games is securely around canoeist David Florence’s neck after coming second in the men’s C1 single slalom event today...

August 11, 2008
Rebecca Adlington became the women’s 400m freestyle champion and claimed Great Britain's first Olympic gold medal in swimming for 20 years...

August 10, 2008
Nicole Cooke brought home Britain's first gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympics today...

August 9, 2008

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