athletes find jobsBringing together athletes and prospective employers was Georgina Harland, a modern pentathlon

By Mike Rowbottom at the Scandinavium Arena in GothenburgMarch 1 - A 2013 world-leading performance of 7.49sec by Russia's "Siberian Express" Sergey Shubenko in the men's 60 metres hurdles, and a European rankings-leading effort and Turkish record of 7.89 in the women's 60m hurdles by Nevin Yanit brought the first full day of action here at the European Athletics Indoor Championships to a thrilling conclusion.

Lagarde's bronze, there had been another success for France as Antoinette Nana Djimou had retained her pentathlon

By Tom DegunFebruary 28 - British Basketball League (BBL) club the London Lions have visited the Copper Box on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park ahead of their move to the venue later this year.

$70 million) 7,500 capacity Copper Box was completed in 2011 before it hosted handball and the modern pentathlon

By Duncan MackayCertain days will always reverberate through history and for Nenad Lalovic he will forever remember where he was when he received news of the day that wrestling was dropped from the core programme of Olympic sports, a decision which, in the short-term at least, has dramatically changed the direction of his life."I can remember all of it," the Serbian recounts to insidethegames. "The 12th of February. I was in my office in Belgrade. I was working my affairs and was not looking at the internet or anything. Then one friend from Switzerland sent me an SMS, 'Did you see what...

everything was alright and we were informed that there would be a great fight between taekwondo and modern pentathlon

Leila Gyenesei and Adam Marosi have won the first gold medal of the inaugural International Modern Pentathlon

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Tom DegunFebruary 23 - Ukraine's Victoria Tereshuk claimed victory in the women's event at the Modern Pentathlon

claimed world record in the fencing discipline in Palm Springs in what was her debut on the modern pentathlon

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champion Aleksander Lesun has won the first gold medal of 2013 as he took victory in the in the Modern Pentathlon

the silver medal and Britain's teenager Joseph Evans claimed the bronze, in the first major modern pentathlon

By Emily GoddardFebruary 22 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting which saw hockey coming dangerously close to being axed from the core sports programme for the 2020 Games was a wake-up call for the sport, International Hockey Federation (FIH) President Leandro Negre has admitted.

a big success at London 2012, hockey was in the final three sports, alongside wrestling and modern pentathlon

Olympic movement, both ancient and modern, dating back to 704 BC.Ironically it was part of the original pentathlon

received wide circulation among IOC members and,  according to Martin Dawe, vice-chair of Modern Pentathlon

By James CrookFebruary 14 - Badminton England have submitted planning application to build a new £22 million ($34 million/€26 million) facility at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, which would open in May 2015 if the application is successful.

capacity Copper Box arena, which was built for the London 2012 Olympics to stage handball and modern pentathlon

By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in LausanneFebruary 12 - Wrestling faces being removed from the Olympics after it was dropped from the list of core sports despite having appeared in every Games, except one, since 1896.

International Olympic Committee''s (IOC) ruling Executive Board to remove it after Rio 2016 means that modern pentathlon

always the leader in a race no-one wanted to be out in front of.In the first round they and modern pentathlon

and three for hockey.In the final vote it was between hockey, modern pentathlon and wrestling.

 Wrestling lost, as eight members voted for them, with hockey and modern pentathlon getting three.Many

had expected modern pentathlon, a sport devised by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the Modern

But the sport with the worst of the shakes will be modern pentathlon, which has positively contorted

was introduced to the Olympic Games in 1912, mimicking the pentathlon which had been one of the key

Fencing underway in Aldershot during the modern pentathlon at the 1948 London Olympics Sven Thofelt

, the Swedish winner of the 1928 modern pentathlon at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, was the founder of the

Modern Pentathlon Union in 1949, serving as its President for 23 years.

By Tom DegunFebruary 10 - The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) have agreed a major television

to Rio 2016 as they were appointed due to their vision, passion and experience in producing modern pentathlon

NTV Plus have agreed a four-year deal with the UIPM to produce live television coverage of modern pentathlon

Plus brings with them three years of experience in online and live television broadcasting of modern pentathlon

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, was thrown out of the OlympicsJanuary 2013: Modern pentathlon proposes holding all five events

horses came in at the 1912 Games and that year also heralded the arrival of the multi event modern pentathlon

(boxing fencing, shooting (sic), wrestling), aquatic sports (rowing, swimming), equestrian, modern pentathlon

By Emily GoddardFebruary 4 - The World Olympians Association (WOA) has unveiled plans to establish a new biennial event uniting all 142 National Olympians Associations (NOAs) to share and discuss best practice schemes and projects that will benefit Olympic athletes and local communities around the world.

Executive Committee," said WOA President Joël Bouzou, who won an Olympic bronze medal in the modern pentathlon