By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 30 - Errol Spence, America's best male boxer at London 2012, believes the United States will show a vast improvement at Olympic level as the sport begins to move towards professionalism ahead of Rio 2016.

Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Scott Blackmun, who has threatened to "make some changes" to USA

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Olympic boxing team following dropoutsJuly 2012: Physician Butler succeeds controversial Adonis as USA

Boxing PresidentJune 2012: USA Boxing select Abdullah as London 2012 head coach

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 29 - Five-times Paralympian Scott Danberg has been named as the American flag-bearer for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony and will lead his country's 227-strong team around the Olympic Stadium tonight.

pictured), who will compete in the F40 men's discus, was chosen in a vote by fellow members of Team USA

By Duncan MackayAugust 28 - Another important step forward in a potential campaign from the United States for the Olympics and Paralympics came today when a five-person panel to assess a future bid was announced. 

pictured) and Angela Ruggiero, both members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), along with USA

By Duncan Mackay at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 25 - American athletes are continuing their campaign to force the International Olympic Committee to scrap the controversial Rule 40, which bans competitors from promoting non-Olympic sponsors during the Games.

We know the next step is critical to have something actually happen," Demus told USA Today.

We're running for our country and running for free," she told USA Today."

By Duncan MackayAugust 24 - USA Fencing has appointed Val Belmonte as its new chief executive and executive

We are thrilled to welcome Val to USA Fencing," said USA Fencing President Donald Anthony.

The USA Fencing board of directors selected Belmonte, a former executive with USA Hockey and US Figure

I'm honoured to be selected as USA Fencing's CEO and can't wait to be part of the United States Olympic

"USA Fencing is fortunate to have his experience and leadership. 

moves home to share with other sports bodiesJune 2012: USA Fencing announce new President 

By Tom Degun in LondonAugust 21 - Indian light welterweight boxer Manoj Kumar has continued to complain about the officiating at the London 2012 Olympic tournament after he and two of his male compatriots were all eliminated in controversial fashion.

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By Stuart NewmanAugust 20 - USA Fencing has moved its national office from downtown Colorado Springs

The organisation will now share a building with the national offices of USA Volleyball, USA Archery and

USA Table Tennis."

We're excited to partner with both USA Volleyball as well as our friends in archery and table tennis

on this venture," said USA Fencing executive director Greg Dilworth."

USA Volleyball purchased the new building several months ago and offered us the chance to relocate to

By Duncan Mackay in London August 18 - YouTube, which streamed the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) feed of London 2012 in 65 nations and provided streaming services for NBC in the United States, registered more than 231 million streams in total, the company has announced.

HD.NBC's Olympic coverage from London 2012 coverage was viewed on more than 159 million streamsThe "Team USA

been of benefit to their brand.US Olympian Meb Keflezighi (left) and Dermot Boden at a Citi event at USA

Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic Stadium in LondonAugust 11 - Usain Bolt rounded off what has been an outstanding London 2012 athletics programme in suitably outstanding fashion here tonight as – with all clowning put aside – he paid full attention to business on the final leg of the 4x100 metre final, moving clear of Ryan Bailey of the United States before dipping through the line to register the third world record seen in this stadium, bringing Jamaica home in 36.84sec.

have to build a differently shaped stadium in Rio 2016.It was the first time any athlete outside the USA

By Tom Degun at ExCeL in LondonAugust 11 - NBC, one of the biggest financial backers of the Olympics, was made to stop its ringside boxing commentary following complaints that it was disrupting officials here.

They claimed that since no boxers from the USA were still in the running they didn't want to stay anyway

By Tom DegunAugust 8 - Irish boxing star Katie Taylor continued her march towards the Olympic gold medal as the lightweight star secured victory in her semi-final in a day that saw the first ever women's boxing medallists at the Olympic Games.

Marina Volnova of Kazakhstan (red), defends against Claressa Shields of the USA during the middleweight

By Tom DegunAugust 8 - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has backed the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to investigate seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong for taking banned performance-enhancing drugs despite International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid calling for his organisation to handle the case.

of ADR (anti-doping regulations) or any other rule of the UCI or otherwise on behalf of UCI and/or USA

We inform USA Cycling accordingly."

anti-doping rules from the Code, as has the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), the umbrella body of both USA

Cycling and USA Triathlon under which Armstrong competed.It was also pointed out that there is no provision

By Tom Degun at ExCeL in LondonAugust 5 – Welterweight boxer Errol Spence is the only male boxer from the United States left at the London 2012 Olympic Games after a protest from his team following a loss to India's Krishan Vikas was upheld by the International Boxing Association (AIBA).

over when Vikas was initially named as the winner of the bout in a 13-11 decision last night.However, USA

However the referee didn't give any warning, with his view blocked by the boxer from the USA.""

At least four points should have been awarded to the boxer from the USA."

Therefore the final score should be 13-15 in favour of the USA."

By Tom Degun at the Velodrome on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 4 - The women's team pursuit trio of Dani King (pictured, left), Laura Trott (pictured, centre) and Joanna Rowsell (pictured, right) continued Britain's stunning form here tonight as they claimed the home nation's third gold medal at the Velodrome and 11th Team GB win overall at London 2012 with victory over the United States in a world record time of 3mins 14.051sec.

gold medal final after an impressive win over Australia in a national record time of 3:16.853.But the USA