idea.But then you think that the 5.90 metres attained by gold medallist Paweł Wojciechowski (pictured) of Poland

By Tom DegunAugust 22 - The Chinese city of Nanjing have staged a celebration to mark the three years to go milestone to the second Summer Youth Olympic Games which will take place in 2014.

Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Vancouver, Canada.Nanjing held off strong competition from Poznań in Poland

By David GoldAugust 17 - Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), the only Spanish firm involved in the 2012 London infrastructural preparations, has started fit out work on the International Broadcast Centre (IBC).

currently involved in the 2012 European Football Championships, which is being co-hosted by the Ukraine and Poland

By David GoldAugust 16 - More than 70 athletes are in Szeged, Hungary, for Paracanoe events at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championship which is due to get underway tomorrow.

to the World Championships in 2008, and last year 63 athletes from 28 countries competed in Poznan, Poland

By Marcus CrawleyAugust 11 - British venue Blair Castle is one of five potential hosts of the European Eventing Championships in 2015.

dressage, eventing, driving, vaulting and reining.It is also up against Waregem in Belgium, Strezegom in Poland

By David GoldAugust 8 - British Basketball has confirmed that Ben Gordon, the NBA Detroit Pistons star, will not be participating in the EuroBasket campaign with Britain this summer.

basketball squad with the London Olympic Games less than a year away, as they take on hosts Lithuania, Poland

By David GoldAugust 3 - The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has backed a new report that emphasises the link between sports development and a reduction in crime and anti-social behaviour at a time when the Government loses £4 billion ($6.5 billion/€4.6 billion) each year to youth crime, and with one in five youngsters being involved in such activities.

Talking at the EU Experts Conference in Wroclaw, Poland, Sally Pettipher, campaign director of the

By Mike RowbottomAugust 1 - Britain's performance at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Medway Park, where two of their team earned Olympic qualification places, represented "mission accomplished" as far Jan Bartu, the Pentathlon GB performance director, was concerned.

Hungary took gold in both the men's and women's relays, with men's silver and bronze going to Poland

By Emily GoddardJuly 31 - The 25th FEI European Dressage Championships are set to be the biggest yet, with a record 21 nations aiming to compete in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on August 17-21, and tickets for the Freestyle-to-Music, which will decide the individual medals on the final day, already being sold out, while tickets for the other three days are selling rapidly.

Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland

By Emily GoddardJuly 21- Ukraine and Japan will both be represented in the Olympic equestrian jumping events at London 2012, following their success at the Olympic qualification event held in Aachen, Germany, where Ukraine secured a team slot and Japan one individual place in Groups C and G respectively.

Eight teams - Azerbaijan, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine - took part

finished on a score of 12 penalties to earn a team ticket to London 2012, ending ahead of Turkey on 25 and Poland

By Tom DegunJuly 19 - Britain claimed top sport at the CDI3* at Hartpury Festival of Dressage in Gloucestershire with a score of 434.162 points after Michael Eilberg (pictured) and his sister Maria clocked up nine astonishing victories across the CDI and premier league classes.

the event was the first stop of their European Tour.New Zealand claimed fourth, while the team from Poland

By Emily GoddardJuly 18 - With the 2012 London Olympics just over a year away, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced its technical delegates for both the men's and women's hockey tournaments, naming Sweden's Bjorn Isberg and Argentina's Laura Pigretti to the key posts, respectively.

New Delhi 2010.Most recently, he was the tournament director at the FIH Indoor World Cup in Poznań, Poland

Yogi Breisner (Sweden)Show jumping mgr: Rob Hoekstra (Holland)Fencing: Ziemiek Wojciechowski (Poland

By David GoldJune 21 - Standard Life GB's senior men's head coach Chris Finch has announced the squad which will be participating in this summer's 2011 EuroBasket competition.

before the EuroBasket kicks off at the end of August.Britain will be taking on Lithuania, Turkey, Spain, Poland

round of the 2011 EuroBasket with a superb 74-51 win against an experienced Israel team in Bydgoszcz, Poland