March 10 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) will utilise the University of East London (UEL) as its base of athlete performance services and logistical operations for the London 2012 Games, it was announced today.

" USA Track & Field have already signed a separate deal for their athletes to base

includes a gym and fitness suite, a large indoor sports arena, ten badminton courts, two competition basketball

By Duncan Mackay January 12 - Chicago today suffered another blow today when the city was omitted from the list of cities put forward as potential venues for the United States bid to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup, with "Olympic fatigue" being partly blamed.

news for Atlanta, the host city of the 1996 Olympics, which was among the cities chosen as part of the USA

capacity Georgia Dome played an important role when Atlanta staged the Games, including hosting the basketball

nbsp;leading sports stars, led by Sir Steve Redgrave (pictured), have joined a campaign for Britain's basketball

  "The British Basketball team has shown amazing growth in the last three years, which I witnessed

Championships would provide this platform and I would love to see them compete against the superpowers of USA

Phillips Idowu (pictured), who initially took up the triple jump to improve his jumping ability on the basketball

  Idowu said: "I am a huge basketball fan and I want to see the GB team being as successful

  Chris Spice, the British Basketball performance director, said: "In many ways we, GB, find

History Basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891 and quickly

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) was set-up in 1932 in Geneva and they organised the first

in Montreal but with the 1980 Olympics boycott, Yugoslavia became the first team coming outside the USA

players The United States men have won the gold medal on 13 occasions out of the 17 occasions basketball

August 10 - Australian legends, including Mark Ella (pictured), have urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to readmit rugby to the Games when they make a decision later this week.  

“Those countries were Wales, Argentina, Kenya, Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA

Team-mate Ruan Sims revealed she had previously dreamt of playing in the Olympics as a basketball player

“I played basketball before I played rugby and I wanted to go to the Olympics.  

August 10 - Australian legends, including Mark Ella (pictured), have urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to readmit rugby to the Games when they make a decision later this week.  

“Those countries were Wales, Argentina, Kenya, Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA

Team-mate Ruan Sims revealed she had previously dreamt of playing in the Olympics as a basketball player

“I played basketball before I played rugby and I wanted to go to the Olympics.  

August 10 - Australian legends, including Mark Ella (pictured), have urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to readmit rugby to the Games when they make a decision later this week.  

“Those countries were Wales, Argentina, Kenya, Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA

Team-mate Ruan Sims revealed she had previously dreamt of playing in the Olympics as a basketball player

“I played basketball before I played rugby and I wanted to go to the Olympics.  

July 29 - Basketball's historic 1992 Dream Team are to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame's Class of 2009 at a special ceremony that will help raise money for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games.    

Traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by world governing body FIBA allowed USA

Basketball to field teams with professional players and they picked a squad full of players from the

July 29 - Basketball's historic 1992 Dream Team are to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame's Class of 2009 at a special ceremony that will help raise money for Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Games.    

Traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by world governing body FIBA allowed USA

Basketball to field teams with professional players and they picked a squad full of players from the

July 21 - Mike Krzyzewski (pictured) will stay with the United States men's basketball team to defend

Championships, 10 Final Fours, third most in history, and 11 ACC Championships.Jerry Colangelo, the chairman of USA

Basketball, said: "It was very easy to walk away, but I just don't think people who are accustomed to

controversial 1972 gold-medal game to the Soviet Union in Munich.Colangelo said: "We don't have term limits at USA

Basketball and so when you have a great thing going, you keep it going."

Championships and managed only a bronze medal two years later in the Athens Games.Colangelo took control of USA

The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has launched a new initiative in the lead-up to the Fourth of July that provides Americans with opportunities to support athletes in the build-up to London 2012.  

By further emphasizing the US Olympic and Paralympic teams' connection with the USA around the most patriotic

Paralympians featured in the creative include skater Jeremy Abbott and Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, basketball

marketing officer, said: "The US Olympic Committee is proud to be launching 'America Supports Team USA

"America Supports Team USA" will be featured at events such as the USA Swimming National Championships

in Indianapolis, USA Track & Field National Championships and USA Volleyball's Men's World League and

May 21 - Britain's track cyclists carried on from where they left off in Beijing on day two of the BT Paralympic World Cup, claiming 11 medals.

Day two at the BT Paralympic World Cup saw unbelievably close matches in the wheelchair basketball with

a strong force in the Australian men’s squad, summarised their last match of the day against USA

training squad for this summer along with Tafari Toney (pictured), who has been the star of the British Basketball

He was ninth leading rebounder in the prestigious Conference USA last season, and fifth in offensive

future that they will have an even bigger role to develop players, not just for GB but in Europe and the USA

April 15 - Italian-born Geno Auriemma (pictured centre) will coach the United States women's basketball

“The greatest pressure that I ever felt in my life was walking into a building as the head coach of USA

Basketball and looking at the three flag poles and knowing at the end of the game there was going to

career that would be as meaningful to me as winning a gold medal.”Jerry Colangelo, the chairman of USA

Basketball, said: "There is no better coach in America than Geno Auriemma and we are delighted to be

The USA Basketball women's national team has achieved tremendous success over the years and as winners

April 8 - The United States star-studded basketball squad, including Kobe Bryant (pictured), will prepare

Jerry Colangelo, the managing director of Team USA, said: "It makes too much sense not to be in Vegas

No coach has been named for Team USA, and that decision probably will not be made until this autumn,