With little more than three months to go before the London 2012 qualification period concludes, GB Badminton continues to demonstrate its focus on medal potential athletes to represent Great Britain at London 2012.

The regular reviews of each athlete has already seen men’s singles hope Carl Baxter and men’s doubles pair Chris Langridge and Anthony Clark drop out of the race to London.

And today Scotland’s Robert Blair and England’s Gabby White, one of the three pairs in the mixed doubles race, became the latest Olympic players to be removed from Badminton’s ‘Olympic Track’ when they fell out of contention by slipping below their two GB rivals to No. 26 in the world rankings. As a consequence Blair is to lose his place on the GB World Class Performance Programme, while White will focus on her Women’s Doubles partnership with Jenny Wallwork as well as look ahead to Rio in 2016.

BADMINTONscotland are offering badminton followers the chance to get involved in helping to run a major tournament by volunteering for the Scottish 4 Nationals Parabadminton Championships at Glasgow's Scotstoun International Sports Arena from February 17-19.

Players from all over the United Kingdom will be competing including some of the best disabled players in the world, such as world championship gold medallist Steven Moodie and silver medallist Alan Oliver.

DEFENDING champion Kieran Merrilees and rising star Kirsty Gilmour have been named top singles seeds for the Yonex Scottish National Badminton Championships at the Bell's Sports Centre in Perth from February 3-5.

Glasgow's Merrilees is seeded to meet Falkirk's 2010 champion Calum Menzies in the final with Dunfermline's Gordon Hoggan and Glasgow's Danny Leinster seeded to reach the last four.

Gilmour, who lost to reigning champion Susan Egelstaff in the semi-finals last February, is seeded to meet 2009, 2010 and 2011 runner-up Linda Sloan in the final. Egelstaff is not defending her title as she looks to make a full recovery from knee trouble which interrupted her Olympic push for two months before Christmas.