TODAY marks the 50-day countdown to the LEN European Nations Trophy which takes place in Manchester from July 8-15 and is a tournament considered vital in Britain's preparations for the 2012 Olympics.

Britain has been drawn against France, Poland, Ukraine, Israel and Ireland, whilst hot favourites Montenegro

  COMPETITORS from 29 nations take to the streets of Leamington tomorrow for the most prestigious athletics event ever to take place in Warwickshire, which is being supported by the Coventry Warwickshire 2012 Partnership.

Matthews and 50km silver medallist Paul Nihill, and four-times Olympic champion Robert Korzeniowski of Poland

  WALES AND SCOTLAND are set to launch a joint bid to host the 2016 European Football Championhips, it was announced today. 

Speaking on the day after that Poland and Ukraine won the race to jointly host the 2012 event Collins

"The decision to give the Euro 2012 tournament to Poland and the Ukraine shows that  UEFA can be persuaded

  POLAND and Ukraine today won the race to host the European Championships in 2012 after beating off

Poland and Ukraine had staged an impressive presentation with Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, Liverpool

The victory for Poland and Ukraine signifies the first step in new UEFA president Michel Platini's plan

It is even more surprising as there has been a match-fixing scandal in Poland.  

Ukrainian cities Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv and Lviv have been lined up as host cities along with six in Poland

  BRITAIN'S Georgina Harland (pictured) struck gold in the third round of the Modern Pentathlon World Cup held at Millfield School in Somerset today.

leading the field and finished 75m ahead of  Kazakhstan's Lada Jienbalanova with Sylwia Czwojdzinska from Poland

  BRITAIN'S swimmers added two more bronze medals to their total on the final day of the World Championships in Melbourne today thanks to Liam Tancock (pictured) and David Davies.

Gold went to young Mateusz Sawrymowicz of Poland, who lead the race from the first third, in a time of

  BRITAIN will face Celtic rivals Ireland in the group stages of the men's LEN European Nations Trophy in Manchester, the largest water polo competition hosted in Britain in recent years and an event that is important on the road to London 2012.

Britain were drawn in Group-B alongside water polo heavyweights France, Poland, Ukraine and Israel, but

  BRITAIN finished top of the medals table at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham, the biggest ever athletics event to be staged in Britain before the 2012 Olympics.

Britain moved up into the gold medal position with a time of 3min 07.04sec , with Russia second and Poland

 DECEMBER 10 - MO FARAH'S awesome finishing speed on the last circuit ensured he emphatically claimed the European Championship Cross Country title for Britain in San Giorgio su Legnano today.

history.The under-23 trial event saw the women's side led home by Aine Hoban in fourth clinch gold ahead of Poland

 DECEMBER 10 - MO FARAH'S awesome finishing speed on the last circuit ensured he emphatically claimed the European Championship Cross Country title for Britain in San Giorgio su Legnano today.

history.The under-23 trial event saw the women's side led home by Aine Hoban in fourth clinch gold ahead of Poland

 DECEMBER 8 - BRITAIN won its first gold medal at the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki tonight thanks to Kirsty Balfour (pictured) in the 200 metres breaststroke.

own British record to touch in 2min 21.82 sec, ahead of Germany's Anne Poleska and Beata Kaminska of Poland

 NOVEMBER 26 - THE Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) and the Irish Sports Council rolled out the red carpet for newly crowned world champion Katie Taylor at Dublin Airport this morning.

the reigning world champion, but she was very wary of me because I beat here in the European final in Poland

 NOVEMBER 20 - THE season ended on a high for Britain's women at the World Championships in Guatemala today when they secured their second silver medal in three days in the team relay competition.

 Ahead of them were Poland, winning their third gold medal of the Championship, with Russia in third

Despite just two rails down in show jumpiong, Poland scored a perfect 1,200 points and set off on the

  NOVEMBER 18 - BRITAIN'S team of Georgina Harland, Mhairi Spence and Katy Livingstone (all pictured) won a silver medal at the World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Guatemala City today.

and Livingstone finishing 12th and 18th respectively that was enough for them to finish second behind Poland

  MAY 27 - EDINBURGH'S Sarah Clark (pictured) has won the –63kg title on the second day of the 2006 European Judo Championships, in Tampere, Finland – beating both the World Champion and reigning European Champion to take gold.

The 27 year old from London beat Krzysztof Weglarz of Poland in the repechage final.