By David GoldAugust 8 - British Basketball has confirmed that Ben Gordon, the NBA Detroit Pistons star, will not be participating in the EuroBasket campaign with Britain this summer.

squad with the London Olympic Games less than a year away, as they take on hosts Lithuania, Poland, Spain

By Duncan MackayAugust 7 - Exactly a year to the day before he hopes to be crowned as Olympic champion on the same course, Alistair Brownlee made it a British double at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park with a dominant victory that underlined his position as the sport's dominant personality.

titleJune 2011: Brownlee top of the world after Kitzbuhel victoryJune 2011: Brownlee brothers reign in Spain

By David GoldAugust 3 - London 2012 chair Sebastian Coe has been welcomed to Strathclyde Park by Glasgow 2014 chairman Lord Robert Smith on his first visit to a satellite venue for the Commonwealth Games.

and ultimately led to me representing Great Britain at the European Junior Triathlon Championships in Spain

By David GoldAugust 3 - The United States will shortly confirm the manager of its football team for the London 2012 Olympic Games, but it will not be Jurgen Klinsmann, who was this week appointed coach of the senior team.

as a remarkable run to the final of the Confederations Cup, where they beat then European Champions Spain

of hosts Britain, Belarus, Switzerland and world, European senior and under-21 champions Spain.But Spain

By David GoldAugust 2 - The British women's squad for next month's Wheelchair Basketball European Championships, taking place in Nazareth, Israel has been confirmed.

that squad, with the return of Judith Hamer.Garry Peel's side will take on Germany, France, Holland, Spain

By Emily GoddardJuly 31 - The 25th FEI European Dressage Championships are set to be the biggest yet, with a record 21 nations aiming to compete in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on August 17-21, and tickets for the Freestyle-to-Music, which will decide the individual medals on the final day, already being sold out, while tickets for the other three days are selling rapidly.

to field full teams at the FEI European Dressage Championships 2011 are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain

By Duncan MackayJuly 24 - Istanbul are today set to officially declare that they are to bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will announce, insidethegames can reveal.

growing economies which has so far managed to avoid the financial meltdown that has threatened Italy and Spain

By Mike RowbottomJuly 19 - A field of Olympic proportions has been announced, fittingly enough, for the World Championship triathlon that will take place on the proposed London 2012 course next month, with five Beijing medallists, two world champions and Britain's Brownlee brothers - Alistair (pictured) and Jonathan - on the entry lists, as well as Britain's former world champion Helen Jenkins.

Alistair Brownlee will both be in the starting line-ups as will 2010 World Champions Javier Gomez of Spain

By Emily GoddardJuly 12 - The 2011 Disabled British Open (DBO) Golf Championship has received sponsorship support from global ISO standard implementation specialists IMSM for the second successive year.

of 72 disabled athletes, with ages ranging from 16-71, from as far afield as South Africa, Pakistan, Spain

By Duncan MackayJuly 13 - Madrid officially announced that it will bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, hoping to replicate Pyeongchang's perseverance in winning on a third consecutive attempt, the city's Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón said today.

We're convinced by then [2020] that Spain will have gotten through the economic crisis and be in fine

"It would also provide an economic boost and reactivate the economies of Madrid and Spain."

opportunity to start an economic movement, it's a great opportunity for Madrid and a great opportunity for Spain

59 European records were broken, 31 of which were world records.Although Ukraine, Great Britain and Spain

By Tom DegunJuly 10 - Britain's young swimmers took full advantage of the opportunity to show their class at the European Junior Championships in Belgrade as they claimed a total of six gold medals to finish at the top of the standings ahead of Italy and Germany respectively.

he set in the heats to finish in 4.20.60 behind Maxym Shemberyev of Ukraine and Eduardo Solaeche of Spain

By Tom DegunJuly 9 - Britain rounded off a fine display at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Swimming Championships in Berlin with victory in the women's 34 point 4x100 metre medley relay to claim a total of 27 gold medals and finish second on the overall medal table.

table as they claimed 41 golds, 37 silvers and 28 bronze medals to finish well clear of Britain, while Spain

Russia came second after touching in 5:06.82 and Spain won bronze in 5:08.70.Elsewhere Susie Rodgers

By David GoldJuly 2 - FIFA has banned Equatorial Guinea's women's team from qualifying for the London 2012 women's Olympic football tournament for fielding an ineligible player.

Sayo was born in Valladolid and represented Spain at under-19 level.She has also been removed from the

By Mike RowbottomJune 29 - Jodie Stimpson, the defending British Triathlon Super Series champion, will encounter a new location in Docklands and a new-style competition in the penultimate event of the 2011 Series tomorrow evening.

Avil, who was delighted with her European showing in Spain last weekend, said: "I raced a Super Sprint