NOVEMBER 10 - BRITISH CYCLING'S head coach Shane Sutton (pictured) has been named coach of the year at the UK Coaching Awards.

August 27 - Mary Kom (pictured), a four-time women's world boxing champion, has signed up with Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation dedicated to helping India's athletes, to help her with her preprations for London 2012.

UK ATHLETICS chief executive Niels de Vos (pictured) has today responded to the Dwain Chambers competition row by vowing to restructure UK Athletics’ selection policy.

THE Russian rowing federation and the country's rowers face a four-year doping ban unless the national body replaces its board of directors by the end of next month, they were warned today.

PREMIERSHIP clubs Sunderland (pictured) and Middlesbrough are among 20 facilities across the North East who have been put forward to host pre-Olympic training camps in 2012, it was reported today.

SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, warned today that athletics would survive not another doping scandal the likes of one which last month landed Marion Jones a prison sentence.

TRIPLE Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins (pictured) has defended cycling's reputation after there were new calls for the sport to be dropped from the Games because of continuing doping scandals.

THE British Handball Association (BHA) has launched a new logo which they hope will better reflect the excitement, speed and dynamism of the sport as they prepare for London 2012.

August 26 - Chris Jones has stepped down as the women's head coach of British Triathlon.

SIMON CLEGG, the chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), has hit out at Welsh footbball officials for refusing to have anything to do with London 2012, which could deprive young players like Gareth Bale (pictured) the opportunity of playing.

DALBY FOREST in North Yorkshire is bidding to host a leg of the prestigious UCI Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Cup, starting in 2010.

LORD TRIESMAN (pictured), the new chairman of the Football Association, has been twinned with UK Athletics tohelp him learn more about how sport is governed under a unique Sport England scheme, it was announced today.

BRITAIN will be such a major boxing power by the time of the 2012 Olympics that they will beat Cuba in the medals table, it was predicted today by head coach Terry Edwards.

LORD TRIESMAN (pictured) today criticised the organisers of England's last bid to host the World Cup as being complacent and not understanding how the bidding process worked.

THE chairman of Leyton Orient has cast fresh doubt over the future of the Olympic Stadium after he reportedly said today that he did not want to have a running track between the stands and the crowd.