BASEBALL hopes to submit a joint bid with softball in an effort to gain reinstatement to the Olympics for the 2016 Games after both sports were controversially dropped from the programme for London 2012.

The other sports seeking election are golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.

  TIM HADAWAY, the newly-appointed equestrian competitions manager for London 2012, has held a meeting with local residents to try to convince them to back Greenwich Park as the controversial venue for the sport.

Hadaway claimed that work on preparing the cross-country event there, held on a golf course, did not

 GOLF'S hopes of being included on the Olympic programme for 2016 tonight received a double boost after a former Master's champion said he wanted to play in the Games and a new survey showed that the public were in favour of it.

 Canadian Mike Weir said he believes that including golf as an Olympic event would help the game grow

published by Sports Marketing Surveys Ltd, which found that just over 50 per cent of the public backed golf

In August, Phil Mickelson, a winner of three Majors, had claimed that if golf was admitted it to the

Golf is one of seven sports hoping to be elected onto the programme the IOC Session in Copenhagen in

  FORMER British Olympic gymnast Barbara Slater (pictured) has been appointed the first female head of sport at BBC, it was announced today.

In her new role, Slater - who has also worked on the Open and Masters Golf, Commonwealth Games, Grand

  AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTER Network Ten has spent A$30 million (£13.2 million) to acquire the exclusive rights to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, it was announced today.

One's golf events include the Johnnie Walker Classic and Singapore Open.  

  ADAM PARSONS (pictured), a sports journalist and presenter with the BBC and a former motor racing writer, has been named as director of communications at the British Olympic Association (BOA), it was announced today.

Rugby World Cup, the Formula One World Championship, Wimbledon tennis, Ashes cricket and Ryder Cup golf

  NETBALL'S bid to be included in the Olympics has received another high-profile backer in Denise Lewis, the 2000 Sydney Games heptathlon champion.

The IOC will be able to choose from baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, squash and softball

 JULY 6 - THE new chairman of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has said that he wants to try to get the sport included in the 2012 Olympics even though the earliest it can become part of the programme is technically 2020.

Seven sports will be up for election, including rugby sevens, golf and squash, but not cricket.

    SQUASH is hoping that its efforts to be voted into the 2016 Olympics receives a boost when the Hi-Tec World Championships open in Manchester today.  

the world, is one of seven sports which have been short-listed for consideration alongside baseball, golf

 AUGUST 5 - PHIL MICKELSON, the winner of three Majors, has claimed that getting golf into the Olympics

 He said: "I think having golf an Olympic sport is exponentially more important to the game of golf

Olympic foundation and all those revenues and that would be going towards the growth of the game of golf

Golf is one of seven sports hoping to be included on the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games when the

He said: "I don't think that golf should be an Olympic sport, at all.  

  THE Co-operative has announced further backing for its campaign for netball to become an Olympic sport by unveiling a new website along with its own "Back the Bid" logo.

The IOC will be able to choose from baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, squash and softball

  ALISTAIR GRAY (pictured), a leading strategy consultant with vast experience of the sporting sector, has been appointed as the new chairman of British Swimming, meaning he will play a major role in two sports during the build-up to London 2012.

Other major development initiatives include those with Scottish Swimming, England Netball and Scottish Golf

  JACQUES ROGGE, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), today met the new head of the World Squash Federation (WSF) in Lausanne as the sport prepares to present its case to be included in the 2016 Games.

The other sports who will also be presenting are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens

  HAVING rugby as part of the Olympics would help make it more commercially successful, the sport's chief executive claimed today.

The six other sports trying to get elected into the Olympics are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports

  HAVING rugby as part of the Olympics would help make it more commercially successful, the sport's chief executive claimed today.

The six other sports trying to get elected into the Olympics are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports