AUGUST 6 - LORD TRIESMAN (pictured), the chairman of the Football Association, said it would be "barking mad" if Britain were not represented in the 2012 Olympic tournament and promised that they would be.

A new hockey organisation former in India last week is illegal state officials have claimed.

June 9 - Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield (pictured) has vowed to win a third Olympic medal in four Games at London 2012 despite losing his coach Joel Filliol to Britain.

June 9 - Premiership club Liverpool have signed a deal to help develop football in India as it chases its twin goals of qualifying for the London 2012 Olympics and the 2018 World Cup.

June 9 - British Handball has appointed Dragan Djukic (pictured), a 47-year-old Serbian, as their new men’s team head coach for the build-up to London 2012, where the team is hoping to make its Olympic debut.

AUGUST 9 - THE opening day of competition at the Olympics was overshadowed by the murder in Beijing of a relative of a coach for the United States men's volleyball coach which has overshadowed the opening day of the Games.

AUGUST 10 - JOHN O'NEILL, the chief executive of the Australian Rugby Union, said today that he is confident his sport will be readmitted to the Olympic Games in 2016.

AUGUST 11 - SEBASTIAN COE has persuaded London Mayor Boris Johnson that the Olympic Stadium must be able to stage athletics after the 2012 Games, it was claimed today.

AUGUST 13 - SCOTLAND'S most successful Olympic female athlete, Shirley Robertson (pictured), has risked upsetting her countrymen and women by claiming that they should put aside their reservations and take part in a united football team at the 2012 Games.

AUGUST 13 - EMMA POOLEY (pictured), a 25-year-old Cambridge University PhD student, continued British cycling's incredible year when she won a silver medal in the time trial today.

AUGUST 13 - BRITAIN'S best young beach volleyball players looking to compete in the 2012 Olympics will begin their preparations by competing in the SWATCH FIVB Junior World Beach Volleyball Championships in Brighton next month.

AUGUST 14 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has warned that athletics could end up with a reputation for drugs as bad as American football unless it starts to clean up its act.

August 25 - Jamaica's tourism indsutry is hoping the incredible success of Usain Bolt (pictured) and the country's sprinters will help persuade more travellers to visit the Caribbean island.

August 25 - China is hoping to build on its success in the ring at last year's Beijing Olympics by launching the country's first national amateur boxing league next year, the country's Boxing Federation has announced.

August 25 - A chorus of song and drums, and the blare of hundreds of vuvuzelas, greeted Caster Semenya when she arrived home from the World Championships at a packed OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.