VISA and Nationwide have joined forces to co-host a new awards programme for athletes competing in the Visa Paralympic World Cup in Manchester next month.

stars, including Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, in the week of her final appearance as a competitor, and South

Africa sprinter Oscar Pistorius.  

  VISA and Nationwide have joined forces to co-host a new awards programme for athletes competing in the Visa Paralympic World Cup in Manchester next month.

stars, including Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, in the week of her final appearance as a competitor, and South

Africa sprinter Oscar Pistorius.  

  BRITAIN'S swimmers have come under attack after winning only five medals at the World Championships in Melbourne with Steve Cram (pictured), the chairman of the English Institute of Sport, leading the criticism.

"As it is, Zimbabwe, Holland, South Africa and Korea, not renowned swimming nations with none of the

  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 Gerhard Zandberg of South Africa in 24.98 and silver to Thomas Rupprath of Germany in 25.20

  BRISBANE has wheeled out the big guns in Mombasa, Kenya, to demonstrate to the assembled IAAF Council Members and senior executives that they would make the perfect host city for the 2011 World Championships, the last major event to be staged before the 2012 Olympics.

Premier of Queensland, Peter Beattie, who arrives there following meetings with President Mbeki in South

Africa.  

  THE British Paralympic Association (BPA) has tonight launched a major donor appeal to raise funds of £1.5 million over the next six years to help ensure the team is successful at the 2012 Games.

usual leading competitors from Australia and the USA, but also from other emerging nations such as South

Africa, the Ukraine and China.  

  SHANGHAI in China and Doha in Qatar have entered the race to host the 2011 World Championships, the last big swimming event before the 2012 Olympic Games in London, FINA announced today.

of a group of seven potential hosts, including an unnamed city from Japan, Seoul in Korea, Durban in South

Africa, Madrid in Spain and San Francisco in the United States.  

  THE 2012 Olympics is already having an important influence on Britain's £74 billion visitor economy, according to a new report published by VisitBritain.

Visitors from Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa are among the top 

 DECEMBER 19 - MORE THAN a 100 of Britain's athletes who will potentially make up the team in 2012 have been selected by the British Olympic Association to compete at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in Sydney next month.

More than 2,000 athletes representing 23 nations, including China, United States, Australia and South

Africa, will compete, by invitation, at the AYOF.

 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.

"I've had to work hard for this goal and to achieve this and I spent a month preparing in South Africa

 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.

"I've had to work hard for this goal and to achieve this and I spent a month preparing in South Africa

"We are looking to liaise with, and learn from, representatives from the hosts Disability Sport South

Africa, the IPC, IPC Swimming and Swimming South Africa.  

 DECEMBER 2 - BRITAIN tonight won gold in the men's 39-point 4x100m Freestyle in world record time to top off an awesome first day for the team at the IPC World Championships in Durban.

I've had a consistent period of training at home and I've had a good two weeks of preparation here in South

Africa and that's obviously paid off."  

pictured) signalled the start of another flurry of medals for Britain at the IPC World Championships in South

Africa.

 OCTOBER 19 - THE British Volleyball Federation (BVF) have been busy interviewing prospective candidates to oversee preparations for the 2012 Olympics from the 120 applications received.

 Applications came from every part of the World including South America, North  America, Europe, Asia

and Africa.