By Emily GoddardJanuary 10 - Joe Berenyi (pictured), Muffy Davis and Megan Fisher are among the six London 2012 gold medallists to have been named on the 2013 United States Paralympics cycling A team.

Para-cycling Open in Greenville, followed by the Para-cycling Road World Cups on June 14-16 in Segovia, Spain

By Duncan MackayJanuary 8 - Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, regarded as the home of bullfighting, will stage basketball if Madrid's campaign to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics is successful, it was revealed today as the Spanish capital today published details of its Candidature file. 

(£122 billion/$196 billion) for services such as health and security.The dire economic situation in Spain

Madrid, the priority must be to convince IOC members that the deep economic and fiscal problems dogging Spain

to provide a truly compelling articulation of why the IOC ought to take its flagship product back to Spain

By Duncan MackayDecember 31 - Istanbul 2020 are again emphasising Turkey's growing financial vitality as a major reason why they should be awarded the Olympics and Paralympics. 

has outperformed nearly all of its rivalsTurkey's growing economic strength contrasts with that of Spain

After five laps I'd caught and over taken Roberto Alcaide from Spain to take the bronze medal.In the

By Mike RowbottomDecember 22 - The Madrid testing laboratory has been suspended from carrying out anti-doping analyses for three months by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and its head of quality control has resigned following a testing anomaly.

[email protected] storiesApril 2012: Madrid 2020 tries to reassure WADA that Spain

By Tom DegunDecember 19 - World Karate Federation (WKF) President Antonio Espinós believes that his sport will be rewarded with inclusion on the 2020 Olympic programme following years of persistent bidding to join the Games.

Federation and from our sport a model of organisation and operation," said the 65-year-old from Bilbao in Spain

By Tom DegunDecember 19 - The Tokyo bid for the 2020 Games has received a major boost after it was today confirmed that all 28 Olympic and all 16 Paralympic Summer Sport International Federations currently scheduled to compete at the event have accepted the Japanese capital's sports venue plans.

2020 Olympic and Paralympic bid Tokyo is currently bidding against Istanbul in Turkey and Madrid in Spain

By Emily Goddard at the Sinan Erdem Arena in IstanbulDecember 14 - Ryan Lochte of the United States set the first world record of the FINA World Short Course Championships clocking 1min 49.63sec in the men's 200 metres individual medley here tonight.

Vladimir Morozov who clinched gold in a thrilling men's 50m freestyle final, Melanie Costa Schmid of Spain

nearly killed him in 2001 and in 2004, he returned to racing full-time, driving for the BMW Team Italy-Spain

By Duncan MackayDecember 12 - Alejandro Blanco, the head of Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, today predicted an exciting future for the Olympic Movement in the country as its National Olympic Committee celebrated its centenary.

We have passed from a weak Spain to a country that is a nursery of champions."

Spain first participated at the Olympics at Paris in 1900 when Jose de Amezola y Azpizua and Francisco

only time the sport has featured in the Games - beating the only other entrants, a French pair.But Spain

boycotted because of the Sovet Union invasion of Hungary.A total of 3,312 athletes have represented Spain

By Lauren Mattera December 9 - South Korea, Iran and the United States of America dominated the medal table at the seventh World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Tunji, Colombia, while Vietnam kick their way to the top to take the first ever Freestyle Team title.

organisation and attraction of spectators.Meanwhile, most valuable player was awarded to Jeong Cheol Kim of Spain

By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in LausanneDecember 5 - Ukraine's Yuriy Bilonoh has been stripped of his Olympic shot put title from Athens 2004, one of four athletes to lose their medals after retested samples from eight years ago were discovered to be positive.

Denmark's Joachim Olsen is set to be awarded the silver medal and Manuel Martinez of Spain the bronze.In

position vacant rather than redistributing it to the fourth-placed Abraham Olano Manzano from Spain

By Duncan MackayNovember 29 - The bid process has been officially opened by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the 2014 Swimming European Championships. 

Ukraine finished top overall of the medals table, followed by Britain and Spain, as a total of 31 and