London 2012: Table tennis progress report

Podium athletes None Development athletes 8 UK Sport Mission 2012 progress rating Amber Richard Yule, interim performance dir In the past year we have … created a smaller, tighter performance programme in the light of reduced funding for our 2012 programme which concentrates on our best young talent (five players reduced from 12). We are consistently producing European and world class under-18 junior players. In the next two years we will … transform this young junior talent into serious medal potential contenders for the 2016 Olympics and to perform with real credibility in 2012. Exciting collaboration with the Chinese TT Association recently agreed which will mean close cooperation with the CTTA in terms of joint training opportunities and the provision of high quality practice partners for our national centre in Sheffield. Medal tally prediction … We have no medals forecast for 2012. The Games in 2016 are our realistic medal goal.