OCTOBER 31 - BRITAIN'S track cyclists, including Ed Clancy (pictured), won five World Cup events at the Velodrome in Manchester in in their first action since dominating the Beijing Olymipcs.

however, in 18-year-old David Daniell, who beat Yevhen Bolibrukh of Ukraine and Kamil Kuczynski of Poland

OCTOBER 29 - BRITISH CYCLING today unveiled the new Sky HD Trade Team which includes Olympic heroes Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton (pictured), Shanaze Reade, Jamie Staff, Ross Edgar and Jason Kenny.

is an important event for us and will begin to determine our success at the World Championships in Poland

  OCTOBER 25 - CHRIS HOY (pictured), Christine Ohuruogu and David Weir were among the Olympic and Paralympic champions rewarded for their efforts at awards ceremonies up and down the country tonight.

The 19-year-old from Farnborough became the World Junior 1500m champion in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in July

  OCTOBER 23 - FIFA, football's world governing body, are tomorrow set to officially fire the starting gun on the race to host the 2018 World Cup.

preparations for the 2010 World Cup, and elections to find new leaders who aim to end football corruption in Poland

  OCTOBER 17 - ASAFA POWELL'S (pictured) agent Paul Doyle is among the candidates to be appointed as the director of athletics to oversee Ireland's preparations for London 2012, it was claimed today.

Korzeniowski, a household name in Poland, also has connections here through Ireland's world-class race-walkers

  SEPTEMBER 28 - BRITISH BASKETBALL'S performance director Chris Spice (pictured) is tomorrow expected to be named as the new coach of the Australian women's hockey team.

Basketball, where this month he oversaw the successful qualification for the European Championships in Poland

  SEPTEMBER 26 - POLAND and Ukraine will remain as the hosts of Euro 2012 but governing body UEFA today

  SEPTEMBER 25 - BRITAIN'S basketball coach Chris Finch (pictured) today praised the way the governing bodies have thrown their support behind the sport in the build-up to London 2012.

Britain qualified for the 2009 Championships in Poland by winning four of their six matches in their

A good performance in Poland will go a long way to ensuring that.  

"I feel like putting a big clock on the office wall and watching it count down to Poland 2009."  

  SEPTEMBER 22 - STEPHANIE TWELL (pictured), tipped as a potential gold medallist at the 2012 Olympics, was today named as the Waterford Crystal European Athletics Rising Star 2008.

Five days after her victory in Poland, she clocked 4:05.83 at the ÅF Golden League meeting in Paris for

  SEPTEMBER 20 - BRITAIN'S basketball players successful qualification campaign for next year's European finals came to a slightly anti-climactic end in Cazin when, missing their best player Luol Deng (pictured), they were beaten 89-80 by Bosnia-Herzegovina tonight.

would beat the Czechs easily and in fact, by a feat of minor mathematics, ensure they too will be in Poland

  SEPTEMBER 17 - BRITISH BASKETBALL'S success, spearheaded by NBA superstar Luol Deng (pictured), has been recognised with the announcement today that five companies have signed up to be associated with the team as they aim for London 2012.

matches in the EuroBasket Division A as they seek to qualify for the European Championships next year in Poland

  SEPTEMBER 17 - BRITAIN reached basketball's European Championship finals for the first time in 28 years and boosted their chances of competing in the 2012 Olympics when they beat the Czech Republic in Pardubice tonight.

points for the Czechs, who will now struggle to be one of the seven teams to qualify for the finals in Poland

hit both free throws with 1.5 seconds showing on the clock to seal the victory and send Britain to Poland

  SEPTEMBER 13 - BRITAIN'S basketball players lifted their hopes of reaching the Europeant finals for the first time in 28 years with a 96-86 win over Israel in Liverpool tonight.

one win from their next two games in the Czech Republic and Bosnia to book a place in the finals in Poland

 SEPTEMBER 10 - LUOL DENG and Pops Mensah-Bonsu (pictured) were the heroes as Britain stayed at the top of European qualifying Group D when they beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 82-74 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham tonight.

Victories would see them qualify for the European Championship finals in Poland next year for the first

  SEPTEMBER 3 - BRITAIN were beaten in their opening EuroBasket qualifier tonight as they went down 102-92 to Israel after overtime in Tel Aviv despite a brilliant performance from Luol Deng (pictured).

Arena on Saturday in a game they will need to win if they are to reach next year's European finals in Poland