FEBRUARY 5 - BRITAIN'S Amy Williams (pictured) produced a stunning performance to win her first medal of the Skeleton World Cup campaign, taking silver on the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games track tonight.

The 2008/2009 World Cup campaign reaches its climax at the Park City track in the USA next week with

 FEBRUARY 4 - BRITAIN'S new independent anti-doping agency will be operational by the end of this year, the Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe promised today in what represents a major shift by the Government and UK Sport.

learnt from the likes of Operation Raw Deal, the BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) case in the USA

  FEBRUARY 2 - BOOKMAKERS have made England the favourites to win the race to host the 2018 World Cup as the United States officially declared that it would bid, as insidethegames reported they would last week.

US Soccer also announced David Downs is to be the executive director of the USA Bid Committee.  

  MARK ROWLAND (pictured), formerly UK Athletics' middle-distance coach, has been given the job of overseeing the preparations of some of America's top runners for London 2012.

"I am very excited to be the newest member of the OTC and the newest resident of Track Town, USA."

  GLASGOW today said that they will launch an attempt next week to try to attract Jamaica, including Usain Bolt (pictured), to train in the Scottish city before the London Olympics.

"Birmingham, for example, have already secured the USA, and we have to match that level of ambition."

America to locate themselves in Birmingham before London 2012, has been elected as the new president of USA

  OCTOBER 18 - BRUNO GRANDI (pictured) was re-elected as the International Gymnastics Federation president at its meeting in Helsinki today for the next four years through the 2012 London Olympics.

Bob Colarossi, former president of USA Gymnastics; Germany's Wolfgang William and Atilla Orsel of Turkey

  OCTOBER 18 - BRUNO GRANDI (pictured) was re-elected as the International Gymnastics Federation president at its meeting in Helsinki today for the next four years through the 2012 London Olympics.

Bob Colarossi, former president of USA Gymnastics; Germany's Wolfgang William and Atilla Orsel of Turkey

  OCTOBER 16 - AUSTRALIA'S Beijing Olympics gold medalist Libby Trickett has visited the the country's rugby squad at their Sydney training base in the countdown to the team's historic tour to Hong Kong and Europe, which will include a match at Wembley.

was one of four occasions when Rugby was played at the Olympics, with France winning gold in 1900 and USA

  SEPTEMBER 25 - THE Foootball Association today gave the green light to a new FA Women's Super League to run over the summer months, starting in 2010 and which could boost a British team's chances of success at the 2012 Olympics.

that it will prevent our best players from joining the Women's Professional Soccer organisation in the USA

  SEPTEMBER 23 - NIKE has said that it is leaving the elite swimwear market ahead of the 2012 Olympics, a public admission that it cannot compete against its main rival Speedo, whose new suit has this year revolutionised the sport and it has raised fears it could jeopardise the United States' performance in London.

He called on the US Olympic Committee and USA Swimming to come up with a new funding structure that gives

  SEPTEMBER 22 - NIGERIAN athletes have the potential to be as successful at London 2012 as Jamaica were in the Beijing Olympics, the country's leading athletics official claimed today.

collegiate system in the past and was sure that if any country was going to usurp the dominance of USA

Bada said: “After the Atlanta’96 feat in the USA when Nigeria won her first and only gold medals at the

  SEPTEMBER 21 - WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY (WADA) chairman John Fahey (pictured) has praised the pre-Olympic drug testing programmes that prevented a number of drug cheats from competing in Beijing.

those months leading up to the Games a number of nations had a very vigorous programme at home, and the USA

  SEPTEMBER 18 - DAVE McNULTY, who guided Jo Jackson to an Olympic bronze medal, was today announced as the head coach of the British Swimming Intensive Training Centre (ITC) at the University of Bath.

"In the USA collegiate system, for example, during eight months of the year the training programme is

"This is why most collegiate swimmers fail to qualify for the USA national team until after they graduate

  SEPTEMBER 13 - IRISH boxer Kenny Egan (pictured) should have been awarded an Olympic gold medal in Beijing last month but the judges were influenced by the Chinese crowd, the president of the European Olympic Committee (EOC) claimed today.

Hickey's comments coincided with the news that two-time Olympic gold medalist Steven Lopez and USA Taekwondo

that the WTF failed to follow its own rules by refusing to examine video of the match after Lopez and USA