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GREAT BRITAIN PARALYMPIC SQUAD IN TRAINING

10 June 2008

GREAT BRITAIN PARALYMPIC SQUAD IN TRAINING

Tom Killin, Rosemary Lenton, Angie Malone, Michael McCreadie, Aileen Neilson and Jim Sellar, the athletes slected for the initial Paralympic Squad for 2010, met up at the Inverness Ice Centre this week for their first training session.

Though it's June and the sun was shining the athletes had some on ice training as well as off ice sessions. Over the next eleven months they face more of the same before the final suad selection is made in May 2009.

Winter Olympic and Paralympic 2010 tickets

05 June 2008

2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets and full event passes for the Men's and Women's Curling Competitions in Vancouver are being made available to National Olympic Committees (NOCs) from the Vancouver Organising Committee (VANOC) www.vancouver2010.com.

For Non-Canadian residents, those wishing to purchase tickets for curling (or any other sport) will have to do so from a ticket agency in their own country who has been contracted through the NOC concerned. These will be different for each country, and information on how to place orders should be sought from respective NOCs eg the agency for US citizens has been announced as Jet Set Sports. Although sales will not commence until 8 October 2008, early contact to register interest in purchasing is recommended.

Canadian residents will be able to purchase directly from VANOC from 1 October 2008.

Paralympic Winter Games
Ticket package information should be obtained from the VANOC website www.vancouver2010.com

For information and tickets in Great Britain contact Sportsworld Travel, Windrush Court, Blacklands Way, Abingdon, OX14 1SY, telephone 01235 554844

WINTER UNIVERSIADE SQUAD UPDATE

03 June 2008

WINTER UNIVERSIADE SQUAD UPDATE

WORLD UNIVERSIADE GAMES UPDATE

Glen Muirhead, one of the four athletes selected for the World Universiade Games 2009, has withdrawn from the squad.
He is already heavily committed to competitive curling with his own team and as a member of the Junior Squad.
Scotland will be sending a team to Denmark in January for the European Junior Challenge, two countries from Europe will qualify for the 2009 World Junior Championships via the Challenge. Glen will be skipping the team in Denmark.
Glen feels he already has a heavy time commitment to curling and needs to have some time available for his university studies so has made the decision to leave the WUG squad.
High Performance Curling Coach Cate Brewster is now looking for two more athletes to complete a squad of five. Candidates will be selected on recent statistics and results.

SQUADS ANNOUNCED FOR THE WINTER UNIVERSIADE GAMES 2009

26 May 2008

GREAT BRITAIN SQUADS FOR THE WINTER UNIVERSIADE GAMES 2009

Four men and five women who hope to represent Great Britian at the Winter Universiade Games in Harbin, China in February 2009 have been selected for the squads.

To be eligible athletes must be students and under the age of 28.

Andrew Craigie, John Hamilton, Glen Muirhead and Thomas Pendreigh make up the men's squad, a fifth athlete may be selected later. Andrew and John were in the silver medal winning team at the 2007 Winter Universiade Games.

Kay and Vicki Adams, Laura Kirkpatrick, Sarah Macintyre and Sarah Reid form the women's squad. The two Sarahs won gold for Scotland at the World Junior Curling Championships in 2007, Kay and Vicki Adams and Sarah Macintyre got gold at the 2008 World Junior Championships.

National coach Cate Brewster said "I'm looking forward to working with all the squad athletes in the run up to the Games, it will be an exciting time for everyone."

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