Sky Academy Sports Scholar Siobhan-Marie OConnor has been unveiled as part of the GB swimming squad to compete at the Rio Olympics. Charles Haley Youth Jersey . The 26 athletes, including world and European champion Adam Peaty, secured their spots for Brazil following last weeks National Championships in Glasgow.Team GB will be desperate for the British swimmers to improve on a very disappointing home Olympics at London in 2012 where they picked up just two bronzes (Becky Adlington) and a silver (Michael Jamieson). Britain will take a swimming team of 26 to the Olympic Games. Sky Sports News HQs Gail Davis has been speaking to Siobhan-Marie OConnor. But hopes for the summer will be high with a youthful squad impressing over the last two years and scooping a record haul of medals at last years World Championships in Kazan.This will be the second Games for OConnor, who also won bronze in the 200m individual medley in Russia last summer.Im so excited to be officially selected for the Rio Olympics, the 20-year-old Sky Academy Sports Scholar said.I am now on my Road to Rio. Having been a part of the team in London, I hope that the experiences I have from there will help me achieve the results Im looking for in Rio. Skys Sportswomen followed Siobhan-Marie OConnor on her fight for Rio qualification Ive worked so hard for this summer and Im excited that its now official.OConnor was in dazzling form in Scotland for the Olympic trials. After booking her Rio spot with victories in the 100m freestyle and her favoured 200m individual medley, the Bath swimmer then eased home to win the 100m breaststroke.Peaty and OConnor will be joined by fellow world champion James Guy and world individual medallist Jazz Carlin as well as four members of the World Championship-winning mens 4x200m freestyle relay squad. Adam Peaty will be hoping for more success in Rio Mark England, Team GBs chef de mission for Rio 2016, said: After some strong performances at the British Swimming Championships in Glasgow we are excited to welcome this talented group of swimmers onto Team GB for this years Olympics.The athletes selected have shown that they are capable of producing performances at the highest level and among the ranks are world and European champions as well as athletes capable of swimming world-record times. British swimming head coach Bill Furniss names 26-strong team for Rio - and claims all athletes are there to do a job This group has fantastic potential and I am excited about watching them compete for Team GB in Brazil.GB swimming squad for Olympics: James Guy, Adam Peaty, Max Litchfield, Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie OConnor, Andrew Willis, Hannah Miley, Ben Proud, Chloe Tutton, Ross Murdoch, Stephen Milne, Robbie Renwick, Duncan Scott, Craig Benson, Fran Halsall, Molly Renshaw, Chris Walker-Hebborn, Tim Shuttleworth, Aimee Willmott, Eleanor Faulkner, Georgia Coates, Camilla Hattersley, Georgia Davies, Cameron Kurle, Ieuan Lloyd, Daniel Wallace Also See: About the Scholarship Meet the athletes Blogs Videos Galleries Charles Haley Jersey . - Andrew McCutchen went 4 for 5 and finished a home run short of a cycle, and Jordy Mercer drove in a career-high four runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-2 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday. Darren Woodson Jersey . Ashton scored a hat trick -- giving him 13 goals in 16 AHL games this season -- to power the Toronto Marlies to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Lake Erie Monsters in AHL action on Sunday. http://www.cowboysfootballgearshop.com/troy-aikman-jersey/ . Stepanek gave the Czech Republic its second straight Davis Cup title Sunday, sweeping past Dusan Lajovic in straight sets in the fifth and decisive match to secure a 3-2 win over Serbia in the final.DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With the famed No. 3 on his car and memories of the late Dale Earnhardt fresh in his mind, Austin Dillon took the fabled number out of hibernation and straight to the top at Daytona. Dillon reawakened the days of The Intimidator and proved he can handle the spotlight thrust on his ride in the 3, winning the pole Sunday for the season-opening Daytona 500. He took the top spot with a lap at 196.019 mph in NASCARs season opener in a car Richard Childress has refused to field at NASCARs top level since Earnhardts fatal accident on the last lap of the 2001 race. But with his 23-year-old grandson ready to move to the Sprint Cup Series, Childress allowed Dillon to use the number widely associated with the seven-time champion. Earnhardt won 67 races, six championships and the 1998 Daytona 500 driving the No. 3. Dillon was a kid when he posed for a picture with Earnhardt in Victory Lane following his breakthough 1998 win. Hell have many more memories from this milestone, like the congratulatory handshake he received from Richard Petty when qualifying ended. NASCARs family roots run deep, so Childress never had to leave the family tree to find the right driver for the number. Dillon has been using it in NASCAR national competition since 2009, when he made his Truck Series debut in the No. 3. He won the Truck championship in 2011 driving the No. 3 for Richard Childress Racing, and the Nationwide title last season in the same number. So Childress knew -- he always knew and has insisted that Earnhardt gave his blessing long before his death -- that Dillon could use the number if he ever made it to Cup. Dillon doesnt take the responsibility lightly. "Everybody wants to see this number perform well, and thats what my goals are," Dillon said. "I love getting in that race car and driving it. I think once we get through some of these races here at the beginning of the year, everything will sink in and Ill get comfortable and be able to have some fun.&quoot; Its the fourth time the No. Randy White Youth Jersey. 3 has won the pole for the Daytona 500. Buddy Baker did it in 1969, Ricky Rudd in 1983 and Earnhardt in 1996. Martin Truex Jr., driving a Chevrolet for Furniture Row Racing, qualified second with a lap at 195.852 mph. Truexs engine is built by Earnhardt-Childress Racing, giving the company a sweep of the Daytona 500 front row. "Obviously, without that thing under the hood, we wouldnt be where we are," said Truex, who won the Daytona 500 pole in 2009 with an ECR engine when he drove for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing. The rest of the field is set Thursday through a pair of qualifying races, but Childress and the ECR engines are strong: They had five cars in the top 12 on Sunday. Childress knew he had a shot at the pole, if not with Dillon then from another one of his four Richard Childress Racing entries. All were fast in January testing, and again in two Saturday practice sessions. But it was Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., the first driver to make his qualifying attempt, who set the pace early and held down the provisional pole for most of the session. RCR drivers Brian Scott and Paul Menard failed to bump Earnhardt, and it was surprisingly Ford driver Greg Biffle who finally did it as the 33rd driver to take his turn. Ryan Newman then took his shot for RCR and missed, and Dillon was the next driver out. He shot to the top of the board and his grandfather pumped his fist in celebration. He then nervously watched as the final 10 drivers made their runs, and gave another fist-pump in celebration. "We wanted to come down here and put on a good show with the 3, and to have another ECR engine with Furniture Row on the front row, we couldnt be more proud," Childress said. So could he finally relax? "The pressure is always on when youve got grandsons racing for you," said Childress, who thanked all the sponsors who "believed in this young kid, who took a chance on him." ' ' '