SEPTEMBER 18 - SKY'S multi-million pound sponsorship of British Cycling gets underway on Sunday when they back the London Freewheel, which will give people the opportunity to ride alongside Olympic gold medallists Chris Hoy (pictured) and Victoria Pendleton.

SEPTEMBER 18 - INDIA insisted preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games are on course despite moving next year's World Badminton Championships from New Delhi because the venue will not be ready.

SEPTEMBER 19 - THE Judo World Cup will return to the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham tomorrow for the third consectutive year.

SEPTEMBER 19 - FRENCHMAN Patrick Roux (pictured) has today been appointed by the British Judo Association (BJA) in the newly created role of head coach as the sport seeks to end a run of Olympics without a medal in London 2012.

SEPTEMBER 19 - NEW ZEALAND captain Richie McCaw (pictured) has thrown his support behind rugby union's efforts to win back its place in the Olympics after a 92-year absence.

AUGUST 29 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, will set out his vision for the future of youth athletics at a conference in Oslo in December.

SEPTEMBER 22 - BOXING is investigating overhauling its scoring system following the controversies at the Olympics in Beijing last month that have cast a fresh doubt over its future, the sport's head said today.

SEPTEMBER 23 - DUTCHMAN Charles van Commenee (pictured) was today officially announced as the new head coach of UK Athletics, as predicted a month ago on insidethegames.

SEPTEMBER 25 - TRIPLE Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy (pictured) said today that he hopes a new generation of youngsters will be inspired to get on their bikes by the success of the British team in Beijing.

SEPTEMBER 25 - CHAMPERY in Switzerland and Krasnaya Pakhra in Russia have today been awarded major cycling events in the build-up to London 2012 by the International Cycling Union (UCI).

Champery, a ski resort located between Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc, 90 minutes, from Geneva Airport  has been awarded the 2011 World Championships for mountain bike and trial.

Krasnaya Pakhra, which is in the Moscow region and mentioned in War and Peace, has won its bid to host the BMX World Championships in the same year, an event where Britain's Shanaze Reade should be among the favourites for a gold medal.

Mountain biking’s biggest annual race heads to Canberra for 2009 and Mont-Ste-Anne, Quebec in 2010 while the BMX World Championships in 2009 and 2010 will be held in Adelaide and Pietermartzburg in South Africa respectively.

But the decision by the UCI to award the 2011 event to Champery upset the Italian candidate Veneto-Dolomiti.

An official said: "It's only a political selection.

"We have presented such a good, amazing and interesting proposal, but [UCI] President [Pat] McQuaid said that Switzerland didn't organise a World Championships since 2000 and this is one of the element considered for the final decision."

SEPTEMBER 26 - The International Cycling Union (UCI) and the Tour de France organisers have reached an agreement that puts an end to their long-running feud over the sport's calendar and which threatened riders eligibility to ride in the 2012 Olympics.

AUGUST 30 - DAME KELLY HOLMES (pictured) has today urged athletics to change if it wants to achieve success at the 2012 London Olympics.

AUGUST 30 - LOUIS SMITH (pictured), who in Beijing became the first British male gymnast to win an individual medal for a century, is set to sign a contract to be represented by Linford Christie's management company.

AUGUST 31 - TRIPLE gold medal winning cyclist Chris Hoy (pictured) said today that he hopes a compromise can be worked out so Scotland can take part in a united British football team at the 2012 Olympics.

JULY 1 - BRITAIN today named its shooting team for the Beijing Olympics, led by 2000 gold medallist Richard Faulds (pictured), who will be competing in his fourth Games.