JUNE 23 - JOANNA SUTHERLAND (pictured), a former Scotland player of the year and national team captain, has been appointed as the competition manager for basketball by London 2012, it was announced today.

in the delivery of major events, notably EuroBasket 2005 (the 2005 European Championship for men) in Serbia

  JULY 13 - BRITAIN'S Stephanie Twell (pictured) and Emma Pallant claimed the gold and bronze medals in the 1500 metres at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz today.

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  BRITISH ATHLETES will not be represented in the World University Games in Belgrade next year because the event clashes with too many other key competitions, it was announced today.

"We wish British athletes from other sports every success in Serbia.”   

  AUGUST 31 - The Athletes' Village for the Beijing Paralympics opened today having been quickly converted to accommodate disabled athletes for the Games, which begin on Saturday.

The Chinese delegation was the first to check in and were followed by Jamaica, Slovenia and Serbia.

 AUGUST 8 - SHEFFIELD are in discussions with China, Brazil, Canada and South Africa about setting up a pre-Games training camp in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics there, it was reported today.

Sheffield have also held talks with Serbia.  

FORMER Los Angeles Laker star Vlade Divac (pictured) is set to be named as the new president of the Serbia

Curkovic, the 64-year-old, a former goalkeeper for Yugoslavia, and manager of the Serbia national team

Now a major media figure in Serbia, appearing in several television adverts for a number of products,

From 1920 to 2004 Serbian athletes participated at the Olympics as part of Yugoslavia and then Serbia

February 18 - Kosovo could have to wait until London 2012 to make its Olympic debut after officials almost certainly today ruled out its chances for Beijing later this year.

The Province officially declared its independence from Serbia today but are unlikely to be admitted

United States, Britain, France and Germany have endorsed Kosovo's independence declaration.Russia and Serbia

  ELEVEN cities have applied to host the first Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010, an important new event in the build-up to London 2012, the international Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today.

  The bidding cities are Algiers, Algeria; Athens, Greece; Bangkok, Thailand; Belgrade, Serbia; Debrecen

  MICHELLE ROGERS (pictured) has won Britain's second bronze, in the –78kg weight category, on the third and final day of the European Judo Championships in Belgrade.

In Serbia, after losing her third fight to Esther San Miguel of Spain, she beat Claudia Zwiers of the

  THE NUMBER of countries eligible to compete in the 2012 Olympics is set to raise by one more to 204 with the successful application of Montenegro.

Montenegro, which broke away from Serbia last year, has a population of just over 600,000.

March 25 - Luol Deng (pictured) said today that he expects to recover from his current injury in time to lead Britain at the European Championships in Poland later this year.

They have been drawn in Group C alongside world champions Spain, Slovenia and Serbia and will be based