By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 31 - Nigeria have joined Britain and Japan in choosing Loughborough University as its base for a pre-Games training camp before next year's Olympics in London.

Ndanusa, the President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), announced that they had chosen Sebastian Coe

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 30 - Leyton Orient today pleaded not to be "steamrollered out of existence" and blasted the Premier League and Football League for refusing to listen to their appeals about West Ham United or Tottenham Hotspur being allowed to take over the Olympic Stadium after London 2012.

postponedJanuary 2011: We will "trash our international reputation" if Tottenham given Olympic Stadium warns Coe

By Andrew WarshawJanuary 26 - The global entertainments group backing Tottenham Hotspur's controversial plans to take over the Olympic Stadium after 2012 today went public for the first time over why they have decided to partner the Premiership club.

range of high profile athletics chiefs and political figures, not least London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

January 25 - A special light show at the London Eye this morning has marked an £8 million ($12 million) three-year deal with London 2012 sponsor EDF Energy.

storiesJanuary 2011: London Eye to carry name of Olympic 2012 sponsor after £8 million dealJune 2010: Coe

By Tom Degun in ChristchurchJanuary 25 - Lamine Diack (pictured), President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), told insidethegames the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) postponing the decision on the future of the Olympic Stadium is not a problem.

Committee (IOC), said he was pleased to see London 2012 chairman and his IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe

Lord Coe is the one who made the promise of an athletics legacy in 2005 in Singapore."

He made this promise, but this is not the fault of Lord Coe."

If it was up to Coe to decide, the decision for athletics at the Stadium would have been made long ago

Coe knows this."Coe was a part of this."

Quite.Lord Coe, that consummate politician, may have insisted before the mascots were launched that the

And then Seb [Coe, chairman of 2012] said, 'I have given my word that the running track must remain.'

When Lord Coe reiterated that the track would stay, Sullivan said what Daniel Levy, chairman of Tottenham

, would echo today: "He [Coe] can have an athletics' track somewhere else.

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 23 - Sebastian Coe today unequivocally

Coe, the chairman of London 2012, claimed that there is a "moral obligation" to ensure that the arena

when it won the right to stage the Games was that the arena would remain multi-sport, which is why Coe

 Coe said: "I find it inconceivable that grandparents will take children back to a Premiership football

Coe was backed by Daley Thompson, the two-time Olympic decathlon champion and a former team-mate of Coe's

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 19 - Charles van Commenee, head coach of UK Athletics, has defended the stringent  2012 Olympics qualification criteria for endurance events published today, and accepted that the athletics team in London next year will have "a few gaps".

medals for London 2012 by head coachJuly 2010: Cram sets Britain target of six gold at Euro Champs but Coe

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 19 - Annecy's new President Charles Beigbeder has claimed that he can turn the French city's bid to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics "from underdog to top dog" even though his predecessor claimed that their campaign was doomed to failure.

2018 leaderJanuary 2011: Annecy 2018 appoints new chief executiveDecember 2010: Annecy need Sebastian Coe

By Andrew WarshawJanuary 19 - Mike Lee (pictured), the man leading Tottenham Hotspur's public relations campaign to take over the Olympic Stadium after London 2012, insists legacy will form a crucial part of the club's detailed proposals and rejects growing claims they are merely being driven by money.

Tottenham's approach do not understand the way Olympic preparations work.Paying tribute to Sebastian Coe

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 19 - Former Olympic javelin champion Tessa Sanderson will not be permitted to play any part in deciding the future of the Olympic Stadium, it was announced today.

Those who gave the undertakings, Tessa Jowell in the official presentation, Seb Coe and myself, over

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 19 - Atos Origin, the the worldwide IT partner for the Olympics, is set to launch the Technology Lab, where more than 200,000 hours of testing will be carried out to try to ensure that London 2012 runs as smoothly as possible.

Technology Lab is due to be officially unveiled at a special event later today attended by Sebastian Coe

don't want to wait to see their time flash up on the screen, they want to see it straight away," said Coe

January 18 - London's world-famous Horse Guards Parade will host the Olympic beach volleyball in 2012 after being given the go-ahead by Westminster City Council's planning and city development committee.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, welcomed the news."

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 18 - More key figures involved in London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, including former Mayor Ken Livingstone, have come forward to criticise Tottenham Hotspur's controversial plans to demolish the Stadium and rebuild it without an athletics track.

Charles (pictured with Sebastian Coe), meanwhile, has expressed her disillusionment that London 2012

London 2012 bid team and presented to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) members by Sebastian Coe