British Olympic Association

British Olympic Association
Country/Region	United Kingdom
Code	GBR
Created	1905
Recognized	1905
Continental; Association	EOC
Headquarters	London, England
President	HRH The Princess Royal
Secretary General	Bill Sweeney
Website	www.teamgb.com
Notes	Also includes the following territories and dependencies:; Isle of Man; Jersey; Guernsey; Anguilla; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Akrotiri and Dhekelia; Turks and Caicos Islands

The British Olympic Association (BOA) is the National Olympic Committee for the United Kingdom. It represents the Olympic movement and organises the participation of athletes ("Team GB") at the summer, winter and youth Olympic Games.

Scope

The association comprises members from the following -

United Kingdom

Crown dependencies:

British Overseas Territories:

Note - Three British Overseas Territories have their own NOCs and are not connected with the BOA: Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.

Sovereign Base Areas

Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Role

The BOA is one of 206 National Committees (NOCs) currently recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC leads the promotion of Olympism in accordance with the Olympic Charter.

Working with the national governing bodies of each sport, the BOA selects Team GB's members to compete in all sports at the summer and winter Olympics. The BOA is independent and receives no funding from the government. Its income comes from fundraising and events.

The United Kingdom (which competes as "Great Britain") is one of only five countries (the others being Australia, France, Greece and Switzerland) which have never failed to be represented at the Summer Olympic Games since 1896. Of these countries Great Britain, France and Switzerland are the only countries to have been present at all Olympic Winter Games, thus Great Britain is one of three countries that have competed at all Olympic Games. Great Britain is also the only nation in the Olympic Games to have won a Gold in every games. Great Britain has hosted three Olympic Games, all of them in London: in 1908, 1948 and 2012, which is the record for any city.

Structure

At its formation in 1905 the association consisted of seven national governing body members from the following sports: fencing, life-saving, cycling, skating, rowing, athletics, Rugby football, Association football, and archery. It now includes as its members the thirty-three national governing bodies of each Olympic sport, both summer and winter.

A representative of each of the Olympic sports makes up the NOC, the BOA's decision and policy-making body. The NOC elects three officers: a President, a Chairman, and a Vice-Chairman, each for a four-year term. Six members of the NOC are elected to the Board, which oversees the work of the BOA and puts forward proposals for decision by the NOC.

President: HRH The Princess Royal
Chairman: Sir Hugh Roberston^[1]
CEO: Bill Sweeney
Vice Chairman: Annamarie Phelps^[2]

Founding

The BOA's origins pre-date the International Olympic movement and its governing body, the International Olympic Committee.

It traces its roots back to the National Olympian Association (NOA), which held its inaugural meeting at the Liverpool Gymnasium, Myrtle Street, Liverpool in November 1865. It promoted an annual series of sporting events across Britain, with the aim of encouraging participation in Physical Education through Olympian festivals. The NOA came about mainly through the efforts of John Hulley of Liverpool (Chairman), Dr. William Penny Brookes (of Much Wenlock) and E G Ravenstein (president of the German Gymnastic Society of London).^[3] It took the existing Olympian Games of Much Wenlock as its example, thus the NOA Games "were open to all comers" and not just the products of Britain's public schools.

After the NOA closed in 1883 its motto and ethos were inherited by the National Physical Recreation Society (NPRS) which was founded in 1885. From 1902 the President and Treasurer of the NPRS were members of the Olympic "Comité Britannique" and the NPRS was a founding body of the British Olympic Association in 1905.^[4]

References

^ "Sir Hugh Robertson Elected As Chairman Of The British Olympic Association". British Olympic Association. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
^ "Annamarie Phelps CBE has become Vice-Chair of the British Olympic Association". British Olympic Association. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
^ The Liverpool Mercury, 7 November 1865
^ National Olympian Association, The John Hulley Memorial Fund

External links

[1] "Sir Hugh Robertson Elected As Chairman Of The British Olympic Association". British Olympic Association. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

[2] "Annamarie Phelps CBE has become Vice-Chair of the British Olympic Association". British Olympic Association. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

[3] The Liverpool Mercury, 7 November 1865

[4] National Olympian Association, The John Hulley Memorial Fund

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v t e Sports governing bodies in the United Kingdom
Summer Olympic sports	Aquatics Diving Swimming Synchronized swimming Water polo Archery Athletics Badminton ENG WAL SCO Baseball Basketball GBR ENG SCO WAL Boxing Professional Amateur GBR ENG SCO WAL Canoeing Cycling BC CTT Dance sport Equestrian Fencing Football GBR^M^W ENG NI SCO WAL Golf GBR ENG WAL SCO Gymnastics Handball GBR ENG SCO WAL NI Hockey GBR ENG SCO WAL Judo Modern Pentathlon Rugby 7's ENG NI SCO WAL Rowing Sailing Shooting GBR ENG SCO WAL Softball Surfing GBR ENG SCO WAL Table Tennis ENG SCO WAL Taekwondo Tennis SCO WAL Triathlon Volleyball GBR ENG SCO WAL NI Beach Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling
Winter Olympic sports	Biathlon Bobsleigh Curling ENG SCO WAL Ice skating Ice Hockey GBR ENG NI SCO Luge Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding
Other IOC recognised sports	Air sports Bandy Billiard sports ENG NI SCO WAL Boules Bowling Bridge Chess ENG SCO WAL Cricket ENG & WAL SCO Floorball Karate Korfball ENG SCO WAL Lacrosse ENG SCO WAL Lifesaving Motorcycle racing Motorsport Mountaineering and climbing Netball GBR ENG SCO WAL NI Orienteering Pelota vasca Polo Powerboating Racquetball Roller Sports Rugby Union ENG WAL SCO Squash ENG SCO WAL Sumo Tug-of-war Underwater sports ENG NI SCO WAL Water ski Wushu
Disability and Paralympic sports	Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair basketball
Other sports	American football Australian rules football Backgammon British baseball ENG WAL Bog snorkelling Bowls ENG SCO WAL Caving Croquet Darts Fullbore Target Rifle Horse racing Kho-kho Kiteboarding Quidditch Radio-controlled racing Sailing in schools Real Tennis Rugby league Smallbore Target Rifle
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