August 19 - Delhi's Commonwealth Games suffered another major blow today when Australia's triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice (pictured) withdrew to have shoulder surgery so she will ready to compete at London 2012.

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 19 - West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady today claimed that if the Olympic Stadium becomes their new ground after the London 2012 Games then it would guarantee the legacy of the whole surrounding area.

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 18 - West Ham United and AEG can today officially launch their formal bids to take over the Olympic Stadium after London 2012.

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August 16 - London has chosen One Great George Street Conference Centre, off Parliament Square, to be its media centre in the heart of the capital during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, they announced today.

Sebastian Coe, London 2012 chairman, said: "In the summer of 2012, the focus of the

though and even the "old guys" in the crowd - like London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

August 16 - The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) has chosen to hold its final "Road to London" preparation training camp in Cardiff, it has been announced.

” Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: "This is great news for Cardiff and

By Duncan Mackay in Singapore British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 15 - Sebastian Coe

club have announced that they are prepared to accommodate a track, which was one of the key promises Coe

Coe told insidethegames: "I think it's obviously the situation that everybody is looking to

But Coe, the chairman of London 2012, who is attending the inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games, which

Coe said: "In fairness, this is a different West Ham to what it was a few years ago, where,

  Coe, the vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations

By Tom Degun in Singapore So it has begun. The inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore was officially declared open President S.R. Nathan last night (August 14) and then with a flick of his wrist, the nation’s young hero Darren Choy, the 16-year-old two-time junior sailing world champion charged with leading the home medal charge at the Games, lit the spiralling Youth Olympic flame high into the night sky. The event’s preceding Choy’s lighting of the flame were no doubt spectacular and on the stunning setting of the Marina Bay, the world’s largest floating stage, an extravagant firework display, thunderous drumming,...

London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe said that the Olympics must “move with the times” and

Not because Seb Coe says so and not even because Jacques Rogge says so.

By Tom Degun in Singapore August 13 - David Bolarinwa, the fastest under-18 100 metres sprinter in the world this year, will make history by carrying the Union Flag and leading Team GB into the Opening Ceremony of the first Summer Youth Olympic Games here tomorrow.

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By Tom Degun in Singapore August 12 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe has predicted that the inaugural

Coe, who is heading out here to watch some of the action, backed move to be hugely beneficial to all

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 12 - Fast Track, the company founded by Britain's Olympic silver medallist and former London 2012 vice-chairman Alan Pascoe (pictured), were today the latest organisation to be dragged into the growing corruption scandal overshadowing the build-up to the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

the 1987 world 110m hurdles silver medallist and a former team-mate of London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 10 - West Ham United have revealed details of their plans for the Olympic Stadium if they take it over after the 2012 Games and have pledged to retain an athletics track in a newly reconfigured 60,000-capacity arena.

the news that they are prepared to accommodate a track, which was one of the key promises Sebastian Coe

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 8 - A proposal to include cross country running in the 2018 Winter Olympics is set to be discussed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) later this month, it has been claimed.

Sebastian Coe, the double Olympic 1500 metres champion who is now the chairman of London 2012, is also

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 7 - Prize money at major International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) events will not be cut to save $20 million (£14 million) in costs, the sport's President Lamine Diack has pledged today.

year reign as the IAAF's President, and has led to growing support for London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

But Diack claimed today at a meeting of the IAAF's ruling Council in Kyiv, attended by both Coe

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year August 5 -  Rio de Janeiro organisers today marked the six-year countdown to the 2016 Olympics by creating a team of athletes and coaches to assist in the preparations.

Other prominent names include Joaquim Cruz (pictured), who beat London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe to