By David GoldApril 20 - The next stage of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship, due to take place in Yokohama in May, has been postponed due to fears over the nuclear situation in Japan following last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

started last week in Sydney with Canadian Paula Findlay winning the women's title, with Javier Gomez of Spain

 The Series now moves onto Madrid in Spain on June 4-5.Contact the writer of this story at david.gold

By Tom Degun at the Tower Hotel in LondonApril 17 – Britain's David Weir marked 500 days to go to the start of the 2012 Paralympic Games in style by claiming a fifth Virgin London Marathon victory to become the most successful men's wheelchair racer history of the event.

30min 05sec while Frei clocked 1:30:07.Third place went to surprise package Roger Puigbo Verdaguer, of Spain

By Tom DegunApril 15 - The second round of the 2011 ITU Triathlon World Cup series takes place in Ishigaki this weekend.

close with a group of emerging talents lining up along with 2002 ITU World Champion Ivan Rana from Spain

By David GoldApril 15 - Britain's under-20 women's squad for the European Youth Championship in Poland has been announced by British Basketball.

after achieving promotion last year.They will be competing in Group D alongside Slovakia, Latvia and Spain

By Tom Degun at City Hall in LondonApril 14 - London will have to increase the amount of money it spends on bidding for the 2017 World Athletics Championships to compete against its closest rival, Doha, one of the architects of the successful campaign to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics admitted today.

IAAF) is due to choose the host city for 2017 at a meeting in November.Budapest and an unnamed city in Spain

By Tom DegunApril 12 - A volunteer from Kingston in Surrey, who set up Haiti's first spinal rehabilitation unit, is now working to send the country's first full team to the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

finish in the top 10 in the qualifying competitions which this year will be held in Australia, Canada, Spain

By Tom Degun at Sport Accord in LondonApril 7 - Sergey Bubka, the senior vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and one of the one of the most influential figures in world sport, has claimed that London's bid to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships will be harmed by Britain's three previous failures to secure the event.

opposition from three cities to host the 2017 competition as Doha, Budapest and an unnamed city from Spain

By Tom Degun at SportAccord in LondonApril 4 - International Triathlon Union (ITU) President Marisol Casado has been appointed chair of a worldwide project to create a Global Framework for Recognition of Coaching Competence and Qualifications, it was announced here today.

President of the ITU since 2008 after being elected at the ITU Congress in her hometown of Madrid in Spain

By Tom DegunApril 2 - Sport has been rated as the third most popular career choice for young people in the UK according to an international study commissioned by AXA UK.

The study, which set out to ascertain the attitudes towards ambition in the UK compared to Spain, Italy

By Tom DegunMarch 25 - London 2012 chairman and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) vice-president Sebastian Coe has backed the capital to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships stating the city "would be a fantastic venue" for the prestigious event.

opposition from three cities to host the 2017 competition as Doha, Budapest and an unnamed city from Spain

By Tom DegunMarch 18 - Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson is confident London's bid to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships will not be damaged by Britain's three previous embarrassing failures to secure the event.

host the 2017 competition as it was revealed yesterday that Doha, Budapest and an unnamed city from Spain

By Tom DegunMarch 17 - London will face opposition from three cities in its bid to host the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, it was revealed today.

yesterday that they were bidding, it has also been revealed that Budapest and an unnamed city from Spain

Monte Carlo in November.Budapest successfuly held the 1998 European Championships while Seville in Spain

By Duncan Mackay in MarrakechMarch 17 - Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has been urged to offer as much support to a bid from Africa for the Olympics as Sepp Blatter gave to the continent's staging of the World Cup in South Africa last year.

The success of the tournament won by Spain has raised hopes that an African city will soon be able

March 14 - Beyond Sport has announced Barclays Spaces for Sports has extended its partnership with the sport and development initiative into a third year.

Further sites and projects are already established in South Africa, the United States, the UK, Zambia, Spain

By Tom Degun in BarcelonaMarch 10 – One out of every ten UK sports fans will not follow the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to a new survey.

It focuses on the top five European countries for sport - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK -

the number of younger generation fans opting for mobile figures considerably higher than those for Spain