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British wrestling chief Colin Nicholson has hit back at claims that competitors from eastern European countries have switched allegiance to Britain to ‘steal the Olympic dreams’ of home-grown talents. Britain’s seven-strong world-class performance squad includes three wrestlers born in Ukraine and two from Bulgaria, prompting read more
British Wrestling chief executive Colin Nicholson is confident that Yana Stadnik will be given the green light to represent Britain at next year’s Olympics as the row over the governing body’s ‘naturalisation’ policy continued to rumble on. Stadnik came to Britain from her native Ukraine read more
British wrestling has been accused by the head of its world governing body of squandering its opportunity to create an Olympic legacy. Speaking the day before the wrestling test event at the ExCeL centre, the president of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (Fila), read more
Yana Stadnik is an unlikely British Olympic medal prospect. It’s not that at just 5ft tall and weighing only seven-and-a-half stone, Yana seems too fragile to be a world-class contender in one of the Olympics’ oldest sports. The real difficulty is that Yana, Team GB’s read more
Pint-sized wrestler Yana Stadnik is hoping her Olympic dreams are not forced into submission by bureaucracy. Ukranian-born Yana, 24, who trains in Salford, has been part of the British team since 2007 but the little star who is barely over 5ft and weighs just seven-and-a-half read more
British Wrestling hopes for an end to infighting within the sport British Wrestling executives are free to focus on the 2012 Olympic Games after surviving a vote to remove them. Scottish Wrestling called for the resignation of key figures after a row over selection at read more
Malcolm Morley and Colin Nicholson look forward to delivering a legacy for wrestling with the support of the membership. “We have a World Class Performance Strategy endorsed by our Board and I will work hard to deliver that strategy on behalf of all members,” said read more