The final medals have been awarded, the flame has been extinguished and the Paralympic flag has been handed over to London, marking the end of the most successful Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games to date...

Libby Clegg closed her Beijing 2008 account with another season's best today as she ended her first Paralympic Games on a high...

Team Visa UK athlete, John McFall, stormed to victory in the T42 100m on Sunday...

Despite Helen Freeman losing 3 of the 4 group games, the GB team went through to the quarter finals, as lucky losers...

Bjornar Erikstad posted his best result of the Games today, finishing second in Race Six of the one-person keelboat to move back up the overall standings to eighth...

After the impressive form of our T12 100m sprinter in the heats and semi finals, Libby Clegg managed to keep her composure and finish in a PB time of 12.51 seconds in Silver medal place...

After what must seem like an eternity for the Team Visa Paralympic Athletes, the waiting is nearly over...

Summary of the Team Visa results

Magnus Arvidsson (Sweden) was in action today in the Men’s Javelin qualifying round...

There have been mixed fortunes for the two Team Visa athletes who have been competing today...

Paul Goodison kept up his domination of the Men’s Laser sailing event at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Centre when he clinched Team Visa Europe’s first gold medal of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games!...

Beth Tweddle (GB), Paul Goodison (GB) and Stefania Cicali (Italy) have been the Team Visa athletes in action today...

It has been an eventful few days for our Team Visa athletes in Beijing...

Seven days after the opening ceremony, all eyes are on the track and field events inside the National Stadium...

Team Visa Italy Swimmer, Alessia Filippi had a great day in the pool today. In the morning, she had the much anticipated final of the Women’s 4 x 200m Freestyle relay final...

Day five was a tough day for the Team Visa Europe athletes. This could have been a big day for Richard Kruse (UK) and Emma Samuelsson (SWE), who were competing in the individual Foil and Epee respectively...

Four years on from Paul Goodison’s (Team Visa UK Hopeful) Olympic heartbreak in Athens, he started his campaign this morning in the waters of the Yellow Sea, Qingdao...

For some of the Team Visa athletes, the waiting was finally over. The heats got under way on Saturday with some very encouraging results.

Team Visa UK canoeist Fiona Pennie has qualified for her first Olympic Games by winning both races at the Olympic selection event in Holland.

Our aquatic athletes have been busy again over the past week with records falling and medals awarded across several meets.

Team Visa UK swimmer Caitlin McClatchey will compete in two individual and two relay events in Beijing after her successes at the British National Championships in Ponds Forge, Sheffield at the weekend.

It was a case of déjà vu for Team Visa UK gymnast Beth Tweddle today as she won silver on the floor for the second consecutive year at the European Championships in France.

With the European CEV series starting on the 18th April in Las Palmas, Team Visa Germany pairing Stephanie Pohl & Okka Rau have been making ideal preparation with a first and a third place finish in two Australian National tournaments.

Team Visa Europe athletes took home a total of seven medals from the pool in Eindhoven at the European Aquatics Championships.

Team Visa UK sailor Paul Goodison made up for a disappointing World Championships by taking the laser title at the Princess Sofia Trophy regatta in Palma, Majorca.

Team Visa UK Apprentices Paul Drinkhall and Darius Knight took part in the biggest exhibition event of their careers so far when they competed in the Royal Albert Hall Masters event this week.

Mo Farah finished as first European but was unable to break the African stranglehold on the 3,000m at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Valencia.

Team Visa UK Apprentice Tom Daley will become Britain’s youngest ever male Olympian in an individual sport after securing qualification for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Team Visa Italy Hopeful Andrew Howe saw a four-year domestic winning streak come to an end when he was surprisingly beaten at the Italian Championships in Genova.

Team Visa Norway Apprentice Frida Vesla Schneider had good news this week after being awarded full scholarship to the University of Miami. The university will pay for her tuition, housing and food for the duration of her four year course.

Paul Drinkhall added more metal to his collection with a bronze on home soil at the Euro Top Ten junior championships in Sheffield. The Team Visa UK Apprentice had seven wins and two defeats in the round robin tournament but was disappointed not to retain the title he won in 2007, having been seeded first in the tournament.

Team GB Apprentice Aaron has continued his meteoric rise by securing Team GB a place in the -80kg taekwondo category at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Team Visa Finland Apprentice Maria Valtanen has started 2008 in style by winning her first competitive pentathlon.

British sailing star Paul is the first Team Visa Hopeful to be confirmed as having a place on the plane to Beijing.

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