Tom DegunOctober 7 - The International Boxing Association (AIBA) Special Investigation Committee have begun their work looking into the legitimacy of the corruption allegations made by the BBC Newsnight programme last month.

Mexico and AIBA Disciplinary Commission members Dennis O'Connell and Antonio de Guzman from Ireland and Spain

By Duncan MackayOctober 3 - British Cycling has announced that it is ambitious to bid for the UCI World Road Championships following the success of Mark Cavendish in Copenhagen last month.

other occasion the event has been staged in Britain was at Leicester in 1970.The Netherlands, Italy, Spain

By David GoldSeptember 27 - Teams from across America and Asia are gearing up for Olympic handball qualification tournaments as they bid to reach London 2012.

respectively in January.The final qualification tournaments will take place in Sweden, Denmark and Spain

By David GoldSeptember 26 - Italy claimed a third successive world all-around title at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Montpellier, finishing ahead of Russia and Bulgaria in the general competition to take their place at the London Olympic Games next year.

year in Moscow, and Azerbaijan, were never in contention after error strewn performances.China and Spain

to earn them an Olympic place after finishing sixth.Ukraine, Switzerland, Israel, France, Greece and Spain

By David GoldSeptember 26 - China's men's basketball squad is celebrating qualification for London 2012 after beating Jordan to the Asian championship title in Wuhan, Hubei Province, after a 70-69 win.

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stride forward towards her London 2012 ambitions by winning the ITU World Duathlon title in Gijon, Spain

By Tom DegunSeptember 24 - The Deaflympics received a major boost at the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) Congress in Rome after Budapest and Ankara stepped in to host the competition, which is the biggest sporting event on the planet for deaf athletes.

host.Meanwhile at the Rome Congress Ankara was picked ahead of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Barcelona, Spain

host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics has defended its campaign in the wake of criticism that with Spain

Spain is Europe's fifth largest economy but are fears that it will face the same financial problems

If there is criticism [of our bid], it concerns the economic situation in Italy and Spain," said Blanco

The Games are needed, notonly for Madrid, but for Spain .

"This is the best way out of this [economic] situation and the best way to promote Spain."

By Tom Degun in BakuSeptember 24 - International Boxing Association (AIBA) President CK Wu made an emotional speech to the AIBA Member Federations at their Extraordinary Congress here today in which he vowed that that his organisation would come back fighting following allegations of corruption from BBC Newsnight.

Mexico and AIBA Disciplinary Commission members Dennis O'Connell and Antonio de Guzman from Ireland and Spain

By David GoldSeptember 22 - German Tony Martin stormed to gold to justify his status as the pre-race favourite in the cycling time trial, finishing in 53min 43.85sec, more than 75 seconds ahead of Britain's Bradley Wiggins at the Road World Championships yesterday in Copenhagen.

gold never looked in doubt, as he added to his time trial successes at the Tour de France and Tour of Spain

By David GoldSeptember 18 - Spain's basketball squad are celebrating qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games after retaining the EuroBasket title in Kaunas, Lithuania, with a 98-85 win over France in the final, with their opponents also able to pack their bags for London next year.

Parker, who finished with 26 points, credited Spain with a great win after the game, saying: "They played

By Tom DegunSeptember 17 - Britain's men's wheelchair basketball team will head into London 2012 in the best possible fashion after claiming gold at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships while the women's team also showed themselves to be medal contenders at the Games next year as they claimed a bronze medal at the event in Nazareth, Israel.

In the men's bronze medal match, Spain took third spot as they claimed a 71-65 win over Poland.Meanwhile

the seventh time at the FEI European Jumping Championships, with a superb final-day performance in Spain

Great Britain 22.46; 4: Netherlands 23.42; 5: Sweden 34.73; 6: Switzerland 40.66; 7: Belgium 41.78; 8: Spain

By Emily GoddardSeptember 16 - Marisol Casado, President of the International Triathlon Union (ITU), was the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) member to visit the devastated area of Shichigahama, Miyagi in Japan after it was hit by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March this year, with the 2011 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Yokohama set to take place this weekend.

since I was a high school runner, I took up triathlon and took part in the first ever triathlon race in Spain

By Tom DegunSeptember 15 - The International Rugby Board (IRB) have sanctioned their first ever women's international sevens tournament which will take place as part of the Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens on December 2 and 3.

champions Australia, as well as South Africa, the United States, Canada, England, Brazil, China and Spain