By Mike Rowbottom February 28 - Jessica Ennis, one of Britain’s brightest hopes for London 2012, has withdrawn from the European Indoor Championships which start in Paris on Friday (March 4) because of an inflammation of her left ankle.

have shown positive improvement over the past two weeks but not enough to risk participating in a full pentathlon

"As it is the inflammation and fluid build up is reducing, and I could potentially get through the pentathlon

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearFebruary 24 - The British Universities and Colleges Sport Championships (BUCS), normally a low-key event that operates in the margins, will be centre stage next May when it becomes the first event to be held in the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, it was revealed today.

Ground before the main competition is held in the main arena.Other events in 2011 include a UIPM Modern Pentathlon

bronze medallist at last year's Medway World Cup, will head the British challenge in the first Modern Pentathlon

children can take up the sport earlier, thus allowing its development to be accelerated.Spence topped the Pentathlon

Katy Burke, ranked 19th, also go for Britain at the Palm Springs World Cup.Jamie Cooke, who topped the Pentathlon

storiesNovember 2010: Exclusive - Bartu hits out at London 2012 laser gun confusionNovember 2010: Modern pentathlon

drops laser gun plan for London 2012August 2010: Laser guns to be used in modern pentathlon at London

February 22 - The British Olympic Association's (BOA's) sport engagement team is now complete following the recent addition of seven new team members, including former runner Alison Wyeth (pictured), who competed in the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games.

relevant sport National Governing Body.Georgina Harland, who won an Olympic bronze medal in the modern pentathlon

February 18 - Britain's Jessia Ennis has been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for January, along with Russian high jumper Ivan Ukhov.

Ennis won the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Doha last year with a British record score

archery, the Lee Valley White Water Centre for canoe slalom and Greenwich Park for equestrian and modern pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 14 - British sporting competitors will warm up for the London 2012 Games with the most action-packed year of domestic sporting competitions on record.

Triathlon Championships Series at Hyde Park, BMX Supercross World Cup at the Olympic Park and the Modern Pentathlon

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year February 12 - A World Cup event in Cairo next month which was to offer qualifying points for London 2012 has been cancelled because of the current situation in Egypt, it has been announced.

The decision was taken by the Egyptian Modern Pentathlon Federation and has been backed by the the world

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearFebruary 8 - Simon Timson (pictured) head of the England Development Programme at the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB), will offer a different perspectiveto Britain's preparations for the London Olympics after being announced as a member of the new Mission 2012 Panel.

membership to cover the additional expertise required.The new Panel includes 2004 Olympic modern pentathlon

By Mike RowbottomFebruary 7 - Pentathlon GB has named UK Sport's Jon Austin, a former RAF PT instructor

scene with well established relationships with our funding agencies," said Anthony Temple the chair of Pentathlon

Austin commented: "I am very pleased and privileged to have the opportunity to be the chief executive of Pentathlon

managerial role with David Lloyd Leisure.His background offers him a solid base from which to guide modern pentathlon

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advertising for new chief executiveNovember 2010: Exclusive - Peter's the new King of British modern pentathlon

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 26 - Rio de Janeiro wants to raise at least $500 million (£314 million) in "Olympic Bonds" to help prepare the city for the 2016 Games, it has been revealed by the Mayor Eduardo Paes (pictured right).

million (£423 million) are to be constructed for basketball, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, handball, modern pentathlon

triathlon, marathon swimming, race walking, road cycling, weightlifting, hockey, mountain biking and modern pentathlon

greed, drugs and duplicity.Foxy competed in four Olympics, winning a gold medal with the British modern pentathlon

For some years he was an active chairman of the Modern Pentathlon Association, operating from his splendid

involved in the equestrian world.In a sporting world so disfigured by excess, Fox knows the modern pentathlon

Games should be about, though it is no longer merely men who make it a thing of sporting beauty.Modern pentathlon

January 17 - Pentathlon GB has become the latest sports governing body to agree a partnership deal to

Under the three-year agreement Pentathlon GB will use the online service to help athletes, performance

critical data relating to athlete training and performance, it is claimed.As a multi-discipline sport, Pentathlon

Bernie Moss, national development coach for Pentathlon GB, added: "We are excited to begin 2011 with

It will help Pentathlon GB to coordinate their athletes and staff in a way they have been unable to do

Pentathlon encompasses five disciplines which means more coaches and more data to record."

By Tom DegunJanuary 10 - The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) has paid tribute to Australian Paralympian champion Mark Davies who died in Darwin at the weekend.

gold medals came at his first Paralympic Games in New York in 1984, where he won the 100 metres and pentathlon

24 - Sam Weale has become the first male athlete to win the British Olympic Association (BOA) modern pentathlon

the end of a year which saw him become the first British man to win an individual medal at a Modern Pentathlon

finishing fourth and ends 2010 ranked 16th in the world.Meanwhile, 19-year-old Kate French collected Pentathlon

forces with Katy Burke and Freyja Prentice to win team relay gold.Previous winners of the BOA modern pentathlon