Tennis at Wimbledon, the football World Cup, international cricket and golf’s British Open 

, and particularly the younger generation, will have been inspired to pick up a tennis racquet or a golf

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 13 - The Tour de France today helped showcase Annecy's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics as today's ninth stage of the race started in Morzine, which would be the venue for the women's downhill should they be chosen.

large scale international sports events in summer and winter on a regular basis: Tour de France, Evian Golf

People took note when Tiger Woods broke out onto the international golfing scene because very few black golf

July 9 - A new website aimed at encouraging disabled people to take up golf has been launched by

the English Golf Union (EGU).

The members of the English Golf Partnershi (EGP) - the EGU, English Women’s Golf Association (EWGA

), the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) - and supported by the Golf Foundation and Sport

facilities that promote disability golf.

In this area of the site, the user can also find "Golf Roots", the Golf Foundation programmes

"Golf offers disabled golfers wonderful opportunities.

July 2 - More than 150 pupils from schools across Surrey have taken part in the county’s first Paralympic Sports Festival especially for young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

with the Youth Sport Trust, it featured sports provided by Surrey Cricket, Surrey Rugby, the English Golf

By Mike Rowbottom June 21 -  Sir Steve Redgrave (pictured) has been left with a broken wrist and a fractured cheekbone after crashing during the Race Across America (RAAM), renowned as the world’s toughest endurance cycling race.

Last year he turned up to Henley with a leg in plaster after breaking it during a fall while playing golf

By Tom Degun April 28 - Sean Rose (pictured), the first British disabled skier to win a World Cup gold medal, has revealed that he had to use painkillers to cope with the pain of a horrific shoulder injury during the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games.

" Rose, who was speaking to the Bedford Breakfast Club at The Bedfordshire Golf Club, 

His partner from Edinburgh, Miedzybrodzki, was on-course for a career in golf (playing off a handicap

April 4 - Rugby sevens will be promoted around the world during the build-up to the sport's debut at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, International Rugby Board (IRB) chairman Bernard Lapasset (pictured) has promised.

Sevens was chosen, along with golf, to be part of the Games from 2016 and Lapasset claimed that

March 25 - Satellite Information Services' (SIS) Live has promised the best-ever coverage of this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi after awarding a key and exclusive contract for broadcast services, including technical equipment and diversified production and Coverage services event to South East Asia's largest broadcast services company, Zoom Communications Ltd. 

worldwide each year, including Formula One, Wimbledon, UEFA Champions League football and European Tour Golf

Masters, prompting CBS Sports President Sean McManus to breathlessly say that Woods’ return to golf

• Would golf have got into the Olympics if Tiger Woods had pranged his car a few months earlier?

I think a better scenario for golf’s long-term health would be if he sat out the season, giving

February 8 - Car manufacturer Audi has signed up to be a partner of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DSOB) and a national promoter of the German National Paralympic Committee for the Vancouver and London Games, it has been announced.

The company already sponsors the German Ski Federation and several other sports, including football, golf

By Tom Degun January 12 - Cricket has no plans to bid for Twenty20 to become part of the 2020 Olympics despite pressure from top players around the world to launch a campaign, officials have revealed.

world governing has set to resist the growing campaign for cricket to try to join rugby sevens and golf

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