May 30 - Billionaire Frank Lowy (pictured) has taken his luxury yacht to the Bahamas to lobby for support from FIFA's ruling Executive Committee for Australia's bid to stage the 2018 or 2022 World Cups.

led by Football Association chairman Lord Triesman and also including London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

May 30 - Filbert Bayi (pictured), the former world 1500 metres world record holder, has blamed the national federations in Tanzania for the country's recent lack of international success.

record time of 3min 32.2sec, a mark that stood for five years until it was broken by Britain's Sebastian Coe

May 28 - The foundations for the £105 million Velodrome to be used at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics have been laid, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) said today.

”   Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, said: “Britain leads the way in world

May 26 - Sepp Blatter is expected in England on June 10.   The FIFA President is expected to join Prime Minister Gordon Brown for a ceremony at 10 Downing Street at which members of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning squad who did not play in the final will be presented with medals.

Prince William, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Sir Geoff Hurst, the spirit of Bobby Moore, Lord Coe, not

  By Roald Bradstock - 26 May 2009   There has been a lot of discussion about the Cultural Olympiad and its importance leading up to and during the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics - getting people around the country involved in celebrating the 2012 London Games. But there isn’t any mention about the Cultural Paralympiad? You never hear of that, do you?  

The first hour of "No 850" was reserved for Britain's greatest Olympic athletes: Sebastian Coe, Johnathan

The first hour of "No 850" was reserved for Britain's greatest Olympic athletes: Sebastian Coe

May 11 - Double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington (pictured) has visited the London 2012 Aquatics Centre, along with the rest of the British swimming team.

swimming pools, a diving pool and dry diving area - facilities London does not have at present.Sebastian Coe

By Mike Rowbottom

Sstadium, and I see the legacy for athletics there," Diack said after touring the site with Sebastian Coe

Coe told insidethgames: "In April last year I accompanied President Diack around the Olympic site and

Coe insists that the original brief for the Stadium as presented during the final bidding process in

  Sebastian Coe might seem an odd choice.

  Victory in the 1980 Olympic 800 metres final in Moscow had seemed to be Coe’s destiny.

    By Martin Gillingham - 8 May 2009   Rugby hadn’t seen anything like it for 25 years since its last football-style, penalty shoot-out. The prize? A place in the final of the Heineken Cup – the Champions League of rugby.

Sebastian Coe might seem an odd choice.

May 6 - Sebastian Coe (pictured) has today lent his support to the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester

  Coe, the chairman of London 2012, praiseed the annual event, being held in its fifth year and said

Coe also praised Manchester, which has hosted the event since its inception in 2005.  

By Mike Rowbottom   May 6 - Simon Clegg (pictured), the new chief executive of Ipswich Town Football Club, plans to use Olympic contacts made in the course of the last 20 years to entice teams competing at London 2012 to use Suffolk.

  "Seb Coe has asked me to remain on the London organising committee’s sports advisory

May 5 - United States-owned advertising firm McCann Worldgroup were today confirmed as the £10 million official marketers for the 2012 London Olympics.

Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman, said: “This is an extremely significant appointment as the agency

May 5 - Steve Cram (pictured), the former world mile record holder, claimed today that he is pleased that Olympic 1500 metres champion Rashid Ramzi has tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Cram writing in his column published in The Guardian, said: "Seb Coe voiced his disappointment.  

May 4 - Loughborough University will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan that will see both organisations working together until the London 2012 Olympic Games, as first reported on insidethegames.

Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman and a former student at Loughborough University, said: "Loughborough