August 24 - Jamaica will be even more powerful by the time of London 2012 than they were at the World Championships in Berlin, the country's Sports Minister Olivia Grange (pictured) has predicted.

August 24 - Environmental groups are calling for people to fight plans for a 50,000 seater stadium as part of Nottingham's 2018 World Cup bid.

August 24 - Canada has lost another one of its coaches to Britain with Laurier Primeau (pictured) joining Scottish Athletics as head coach to oversee preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

August 24 - Matthew Archibald (pictured), who led Britain's successful team at last year's Olympics, has been appointed as the competition manager for boxing at the London 2012 Games, it was announced today.

August 24 - A new £46.5 million Life Centre in Central Park, Plymouth has been approved by the city’s planning committee in time for London 2012 after Sport England withdrew its opposition to the scheme.

SEPTEMBER 13 - IRISH boxer Kenny Egan (pictured) should have been awarded an Olympic gold medal in Beijing last month but the judges were influenced by the Chinese crowd, the president of the European Olympic Committee (EOC) claimed today.

September 14 - John Cavanagh (pictured) clinched silver in the men’s individual compound W1 final at the Paralympic Games as the eighth day of competition got underway in Beijing today.

SEPTEMBER 14 - GREEK and Dutch pairs triumphed at the Nestea European Championship Tour English Masters in Blackpool today.

SEPTEMBER 16 - THE Lawn Tennis Association (LTA)  announced that life assurance and pensions company AEGON has a signed a five-year £25 million deal to become the first ever lead partner of British Tennis.

SEPTEMBER 16 - PAKISTAN today unveiled a new plan that they hope will see them win the gold medal in the men's hockey tournament at the 2012 London Olympics for the first time since 1984.

SEPTEMBER 17 - TRIATHLON is to be given a a major shake-up in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics with the introduction of a new international Formula One-style World Championship circuit, it was announced today.

AUGUST 23 - BRITAIN'S Sarah Stevenson (pictured) won Britain's first-ever Olympic medal in taekwondo when she finished third but the row over judging which has scarred these Games in Beijing came to a violent head today.

AUGUST 23 - THE Prime Minister (pictured) has been accused of scoring a "spectacular own goal" after he said in Beijing today that he would try to persuade Scotland and Wales to back plans for a united British football tournament to take part in the 2012 Olympics.

AUGUST 24 - IRISH boxer Kenny Egan (pictured) had to settle for silver after losing 11-7 to Xiaoping Zhang in the final of the light-heavyweight division at the Beijing Olympics.

AUGUST 26 - SCOTLAND manager George Burley (pictured) has added his voice to those saying they do not support a united British football team for London 2012, despite his countryman Gordon Brown stepping up attempts to force it through.