BritishSports.com are pleased to announce the launch of the Heroes of Sport website: www.heroesofsport.com.

The aim of  BritishSports.com is to bring you the best value sports books you’ll find on the web.  The website offers free delivery within the U.K. and are confident they will not be beaten on price!

The focus of the website is on a core range of the latest books, be they football, rugby, London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics together with other popular sports titles.

To receive details of the latest publications, special offers etc you can:

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To celebrate the launch of the Heroes of Sport website Buzzin Media & SportMatters Group are offering 3 Olympic books to one lucky winner.

Olympic & World Records 2012
The Greatest British Olympians & Paralympians
A Team GB children’s colouring book

To enter our Free 2012 Olympic Games Books Competition simply answer the following question:

Where was the 2008 Summer Olympic Games held?

PLEASE NOTE: THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED

Send your entries to comps@buzzinmedia.co.uk with ‘2012 Olympic Games Books’  in the subject line (any other subject title will be not be entered) with your answer and your full address and contact telephone number.

This Buzzin Sports competition ends on 6th December, 2011. The editor will randomly choose one lucky winner.

The editor’s choice is final.

Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games (ROSO) has launched in beta today, and is a unique learning resource aimed at academics, students, lecturers, researchers, athletes, coaches, journalists, policy-makers and anyone interested in the Games.

Containing over 1,000 published book chapters and articles, blogs, reading lists, case studies and interviews with Olympic and Paralympic experts and athletes including Dame Kelly Holmes, ROSO will release over 40 new journal special issues and several new books devoted to the Games. The site will be regularly updated with new content as it publishes and a selection of material will be made free to access.

ROSO’s Managing Editor, Dr Vassil Girginov of Brunel University, UK, has assigned a theme to every book chapter and article, allowing the user to search their area of interest. ROSO themes include: the media, education, gender, politics, history, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, athletic performance, security and disability sport.

Dr Vassil Girginov, Managing Editor of ROSO, comments:
“This new interactive research and teaching platform represents a new phase in the global development of Olympic studies and naturally builds on a century-long tradition and the contributions of a myriad of scholars from all over the world. For the first time in history, a leading academic publisher that is Routledge has committed to specifically promote studies in Olympism in a truly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way. We invite you to browse, explore, comment, share and contribute to the Platform. Enjoy your Olympic explorations with Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

Routledge publishes hundreds of journals and thousands of new books each year, from offices all over the world. Our current publishing programme encompasses the liveliest texts, and the best in research, with over 35,000 books in print.

Routledge has the largest and most comprehensive publishing programme in Sport and Leisure Studies. Our journals and books cover the full breadth of the discipline, including: sport science, sport medicine, physical education, sport coaching, sport management, sport development, sport technology and engineering, research methods in sport, and the history, politics, sociology and philosophy of sport.

Routledge has been publishing research on Olympic and Paralympic Studies for over 40 years. For more information visit www.routledgeonlinestudies.com.

James Cracknell - 1,000 mile Deloitte Ride Across Britain

The Deloitte Ride Across Britain – an annual 9 day, 1,000 mile cycle ride that raises money for the British Paralympic Association – gets underway this Saturday, as riders look to top the £372,000 that was raised last year. The 500 riders will depart John O’Groats on Saturday 11th June and are expected to arrive in Land’s End on Sunday 19th June, as part of the initiative that was devised by James Cracknell and his co-founders at Threshold Sports.

This year’s event has incorporated Daily Stages into the nine stops along the route, allowing a wider group of riders to cycle a single 105 mile stage to get a taste for Deloitte Ride Across Britain experience. It is hoped that by giving an increased number of riders a flavour of the experience, a record number of cyclists of all skill levels will register for the entire 1,000 mile route in 2012.

Multiple Paralympic gold medallist Sarah Storey returns to the ride for the second straight year and is joined by Danny Crates who is the British Paralympic Association’s ambassador for the ride, and Tim Reddish, Chairman of the British Paralympic Association. Tim, who is visually impaired and cycled last year’s ride on a tandem bicycle with his son Paul, will be joining the ride again this year.

Anyone who feels inspired to find out more about how to get involved next year can find more information at www.rideacrossbritain.com.

The event, which is the last major Paralympic event at senior level prior to the Paralympic Games in London, offers a significant competition opportunity for Britain’s best paralympic athletes in the countdown to 2012.

In this video clip some of the members of the Great Britain Paralympic team give their thoughts ahead of the World Championships and what they hope to achieve from the event.

Mills who lost a leg in an accident in 1993 is setting her sights on performing for the team in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, but she still has a long road ahead of her to convince the selectors that she should be included in the team.

Falling outside of the age and ability parameters set by the selectors, Mills will be assessed during her period with the development squad to see how she responds to training and for the manager to judge her progression from a good recreational skier towards becoming a racer.

Team manager Dave Chugg insists that Mills will not get any special treatment saying she will ‘be treated the same as any other team member, in terms of our expectations on and off the slope.’

Desperate to reignite her celebrity appeal it is the latest challenge for the 42-year-old who has competed on ITV’s Dancing On Ice show and also on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing With The Stars.