By Duncan Mackay at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in IstanbulMarch 9 - Britain's former world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis (pictured left) saw off the challenge of the Russian who beat her to the world title last year, Tatyana Chernova, but was "gutted" at having to settle for silver in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul behind Natalya Dobrynska (right) of the Ukraine, who became the first woman to beat 5,000 points indoors as she set a world record of 5,013.

Ennis saw her chances of retaining the world indoor pentathlon title disappear in the fourth of her five

RowbottomMarch 9 - Three of Britain's women have qualified for tomorrow's final of the opening Modern Pentathlon

By Duncan Mackay in IstanbulMarch 8 - Istanbul will have an opportunity to showcase its bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics when the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Championships open tomorrow in the city, a key event on the road to London 2012.

as preparations for London 2012 enter their final stages.The biggest event is set to be the women's pentathlon

By David Gold at the Olympic Park in LondonMarch 8 - London 2012 has unveiled the 176 members of the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force who will be flag bearers during the Team Welcome and Victory Ceremonies at the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.

Cobley has a link with the Olympics as his father, Donald, represented Britain at the Games at modern pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomMarch 4 - Anne Adams-King has been appointed to the new post of regional manager of Pentathlon

GB, the national governing body for modern pentathlon.

Adams-King, a former Olympic swimmer, joins Pentathlon GB from the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA)

English programmes.She will bring her experience to bear on strengthening the regional presence of modern pentathlon

and increasing grass roots participation.Jon Austin, Pentathlon GB's chief executive, said: "We're extremely

The post of regional manager is a new and very important one for Pentathlon GB."

Adams-King commented: "I am excited at the prospect of joining Pentathlon GB as regional manager."

By David GoldMarch 3 - Into Sport Group has announced that Badminton England has agreed to use the programme management tool Performance.

technological support to the English Table Tennis Association and British Judo.England Netball and Pentathlon

ETTA hope to encourage table tennis participation through creation of new online portalJanuary 2011: Pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 21 - Mo Farah (pictured), who called into question whether he would run in next month's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Championships in Istanbul after his defeat in the Aviva Grand Prix on Saturday (February 18), has been named today in the British team.

, Alberto Salazar, has been selected for the 3,000m.He is joined in the 39-strong team by defending pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 21 - British pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale and Russian high jumper Aleksey Dmitrik have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for January.

while her compatriot Yekaterina Bolshova, 23, finished third.Bolshova put together a world-leading pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 21 - British modern pentathlete Samantha Murray comfortably beat Lithuania's world number two Laura Asadauskaite to win the Hungarian Indoor Championships in Budapest, with team-mate Katy Livingston taking bronze.

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 17 - China's Liu Xiang (pictured left), who appeared on the brink of regaining the world 110 metres hurdles title in Daegu last year until he was knocked out of stride by world record holder Dayron Robles (pictured below), has set the sporting tone for their indoor meeting in tomorrow's Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham by saying that he did not think the Cuban had been at fault.

gold medal assault on the Olympic Games this summer.The 26-year-old is looking to retain her world pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 12 - Dwain Chambers, who earned a place in Britain's team for next month's IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul by winning the 60 metres gold today at the Aviva Indoor UK Trials and Championships in Sheffield, has said he is prepared to take up his chance of appearing at the London 2012 Games if the British Olympic Association's (BOA) bylaw is overturned next month.

Meanwhile, fellow Briton Jessica Ennis (pictured) looks primed to defend her world indoor pentathlon

There has also been speculation about the future of the modern pentathlon and equestrianism.

with world junior champion Jamie Cooke in Britain's four-strong men's team for the opening two modern pentathlon

achieved the standard, but with a maximum of two athletes per gender per nation competing in the modern pentathlon

comes at the World Championships in Rome in May, when they need to finish in the top three.Jan Bartu, Pentathlon

"The quartet all train at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath.The women's

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 20 - The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has announced a new five-year

By Duncan MackayJanuary 10 - British Handball have launched a campaign against the decision to re-name the Handball Arena built for London 2012 as The Copper Box, claiming that it could jeopardise the potential legacy impact that the sport hopes to enjoy from the Olympics. 

decided to rename the 7,000-capacity venue, which is also due to host the fencing leg of the modern pentathlon