THE site of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre has been cleared and is on track for construction to start by Beijing 2008, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed today.

Centre will host swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo finals and elements of Modern Pentathlon

  BRITAIN tonight won its first medal at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham, the biggest athletics event to be staged in Britain before the 2012 Olympics.

Kelly Sotherton won silver in the pentathlon at the National Indoor Arena by breaking her two-year-old

THE British Olympic Association (BOA) today officially announced details of Team GB's preparation camp plans ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.    

These are: canoeing (Beijing), cycling (Newport), diving (Xian), equestrian (Hong Kong), Modern Pentathlon

  FRENCH builder Eiffel, shortlisted to build the Aquatics Centre, has withdrawn from the process in a row over how the successful bidder will be paid, it was reported today.

Centre will host swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo finals and elements of Modern Pentathlon

  WORK is surging ahead on the site of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre following the handover of the Olympic Park this summer, London officials claimed today.

swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, Paralympic swimming, water polo finals and elements of Modern Pentathlon

LIVINGSTON (pictured), Mhairi Spence and Lindsey Weedon made sure Great Britain ended their Modern Pentathlon

after the first discipline, the shooting, having accumulated a combined score of 272 worth 1,168 modern pentathlon

Harland today produced another strong finish to claim the bronze medal at the last round of Modern Pentathlon

  HEATHER FELL took silver and Katy Livingston finished sixth at the European Championships in Riga today to become the first British Modern Pentathletes to achieve the Beijing 2008 Olympic qualification standard.

, GB performance director, said: “It was one of the toughest competitions in the history of women’s pentathlon

women per country may qualify for the Games and total of 36 men and 36 women will compete in the Modern Pentathlon

Olympic qualification standard when they finished outside the top-eight in the final of the Modern Pentathlon

“Anything can happen in modern pentathlon and it was really, really tough out there with the most of

Olympic bronze medallist Georgina Harland (pictured), today successfully booked places the final Modern Pentathlon

forward from where we were a couple of years ago,” said Bartu, who is based at the MPAGB’s (Modern Pentathlon

956 points, putting her 10th at the halfway mark of the semis  - where only four of the five modern pentathlon

  SAM WEALE (pictured) and Nick Woodbridge got Britain off to a terrific start at the Modern Pentathlon

Weale, Woodbridge and McLean all train at the Modern Pentathlon Assocation of Great Britain high performance

A total of 36 men and 36 women will compete in the modern pentathlon at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.  

Only four of the five modern pentathlon disciplines are contested in the semi-finals.

Harland today produced another strong finish to claim the bronze medal at the last round of Modern Pentathlon

  THREE of the biggest construction companies in Europe have been shortlisted to build the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, it was announced today.

Centre will host swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo finals and elements of Modern Pentathlon

  SEBASTIAN COE has unveiled a statue in Hengelo in memory of Fanny Blankers-Koen, the Dutchwoman who won a record four Olympic gold medals the last time London staged the Games in 1948.

a range of world records covering flat sprint and hurdles, high jump and long jump, as well as the pentathlon

  BRITISH Modern Pentathletes Katy Livingston (pictured) and Heather Fell won their first World Cup medals when they took silver and bronze in Moscow today.

Jan Bartu, the performance director of the Modern Pentathlon Association of Great Britain, said: “This