MICHAEL PHELPS (pictured) has got back into the pool today for the first time since he won a record eight Olympic gold medals in Beijing last year.

  Fittingly, the scene of the return was Beijing, where he has been shooting a new commercial for

  BANGLADESH are the latest country set to conclude a deal to set up a pre-Games training camp in Britain before London 2012 after the country's senior Olympic official visited Harrow.

They sent only five athletes to the Beijing Games earlier this year, who competed in athletics, shooting

  THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) today stripped Belarusian hammer throwers Vadim Devyatovskiy and Ivan Tsikhan (pictured left and right) of their Olympic medals and disqualified one Polish kayaker from the Beijing Games because of doping violations.

pulled out of the Beijing Games citing an eye injury, was handed a two-year doping ban, the Russian Shooting

He said: "Of course, we were hoping that the International Shooting Federation (ISSF) would take into

  LONDON 2012 must have the venues for all 26 sports, including the controversial shooting range, finalised

deciding on two venues - a joint facility for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics and a location for shooting

They also are weighing whether to move shooting from its present site at the Royal Artillery Barracks

in Woolich to either the National Shooting Centre at Bisley or a new venue at Barking.

attending the IOC's ruling Executive Board in Lausanne, said: "There remains one issue on the venue of shooting

  DECEMBER 5 - MODERN PENTATHLON should have been celebrating after receiving £6.4 million funding to help it prepare for London 2012 but, as MIKE ROWBOTTOM reports, the sport has its mind on other things

made two weeks ago by the sport's international body to combine two of the five traditional events, shooting

"The new rule will make a complete change to the shooting side of things," he said.  

"Now we shooting at something more like the circumference of a toilet roll.  

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

They are beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling

million (£691,100)   Rowing £2.3 million (£1.3 million)   Sailing £1.7 million (£1.2 million)   Shooting

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

They are beach volleyball, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling

million (£691,100)   Rowing £2.3 million (£1.3 million)   Sailing £1.7 million (£1.2 million)   Shooting

  ANDY HUNT, chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), tonight hit out at the Government agency that helped deliver arguably the most successful Olympics in this country's history, including three gold medals for cyclist Chris Hoy (pictured).

  Hunt claimed UK Sport went back on commitments it had made to fund sports such as shooting, table

  OCTOBER 28 - ORGANISERS of next year's World University Games in Belgrade have dropped six sports to help save costs.

  Canoeing, rowing, karate, shooting, wrestling and handball have all been removed from the programme

OCTOBER 24 - JAMES HUCKLE (pictured) announced his potential as a contender for honours at London 2012 when he won three gold medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games having, as MIKE ROWBOTTOM discovered, only taken up the sport because his father's farm had a vermin problem

films came out.But the 18-year-old who returned home to Harlow, in Essex this week having won three shooting

India, knows all about The Force.Targets form the centre of the sporting world for Huckle, a veritable shooting

Practice makes perfectWhile Huckle is prepared to get a bit mystical about the process of shooting, he

his confidence boosted by the recollection of his three recent gold medal performances in India.While shooting

They are the first places that most people feel the strain when they are shooting."

22 - A GOVERNMENT-COMMISSIONED report has recommended that the venues for basketball, equestrian and shooting

KPMG concluded that basketball should remain within Olympic Park, equestrian at Greenwich Park and shooting

A county level tennis player for Essex at the age of 14, Huckle has only been shooting for two years

On a great day for the England shooting squad Sheree Cox from Sunbury-on-Thames also won gold in the

"But I felt that I was shooting well and although I was a bit nervous, when I shot a 10.6 on my first

Away from the shooting range, Helena Thornton, a swimmer from Nottingham, set a Games record in winning

She said: "I've been shooting from a kneeling position for less than a year, so the fact that I got a

  OCTOBER 15 - ENGLAND and Scotland had another successful day at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, winning four gold medals, four silver and three bronze between them.

He said: “I’ve been shooting well in training so I was hoping for a better performance today.  

medals on day six of the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, including another four golds in boxing and shooting

The shooting team have also had a very successful Games and they added another gold medal to their tally

The Aire Valley archer said: “I just went out there shooting.