January 9 - The draw for the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships, due to be held in Galilee later this year, has taken place.

Group-A will consist of France, Poland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.

women's competition - which consists of only seven teams after Italy backed out - Israel will face Spain

By Tom DegunJanuary 7 - The International Cycling Union (UCI) have announced the list of initial places allocated to National Paralympic Committees for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain

, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain

Road World Championships in Denmark in September.The will also be three Road World Cups in Australia, Spain

By David OwenJanuary 6 - The Vancouver Winter Olympics were one of very few events to challenge the National Football League's (NFL) dominance of a new table outlining the United States's most-viewed sports events of 2010.

proved reasonably popular with US audiences, with three matches making the list, headed by the final - Spain

By Andrew WarshawJanuary 4 - Sepp Blatter has laid down the gauntlet to any potential challengers by clearly indicating he aims to continue as FIFA President and be re-elected halfway through 2011 for what would be an unprecedented fourth term.

The first FIFA World Cup on African soil, which saw Spain emerge as new world champions, and the prestigious

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 31 - Graeme McDowell, the Ryder Cup hero, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours list published today, along with a CBE for George Kerr, a man known as "Mr Judo".

becoming the first English referee since 1974 to handle the World Cup final when he took charge of Spain

After four of our five pool matches with wins against Spain, China, South Africa and a draw against South

December 22 - Spain's World steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez appeared in court today for questioning over suspicions that she trafficked performance-enhancing drugs.

The 35-year-old, who is four months pregnant with her first child and lives in Palencia in northern Spain

storiesDecember 2010: Video evidence set to be used in Spanish doping investigationDecember 2010: Spain

Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain

December 18 - The star of this year's football World Cup and three of the most exciting golfers playing today are being cited as among the favourites to win nominations for the 2011 Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award.

became the youngest ever winner on the European Tour after his victory at the Castellon Masters in Spain

December 14 - British Basketball performance director Chris Spice says the women's team is full of confidence and has nothing to lose after seeing the line-up for the 2011 Eurobasket.

Republic in BydgoszczGroup B: Belarus, Czech Republic, Israel and Great Britain in BydgoszczGroup C: Spain

December 11 - Spanish police investigating a new doping scandal are studying video material showing athletes being injected with banned substances, according to reports.

targeted cyclists, team officials and doctors over blood doping.Related storiesDecember 2010: Spain

December 10 - World steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez has been suspended from her post as a vice president of the Spanish athletics federation (RFEA) after she was implicated in a doping probe, it was announced today.

"The girlfriend of Spain" had "betrayed" her country, the daily El Mundo wrote.Doping suspicions

All of Spain loves Marta," said Heliodoro Gallego, the Mayor of of Palencia, where a street and a sports

December 4 - The names of the 13 Podium, eight Academy and three Talent athletes who will make up the GB Para-Cycling Team in 2011 have been announced by British Cycling.

Games and our athletes achieved strong results at the first two qualifying events – the World Cup in Spain

December 2 - A host of curling talent will be on show when the 36th Le Gruyère European Championships get under way in Champery, Switzerland, on Saturday (December 4).

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Spain

By Andrew Warshaw in ZurichNovember 30 - The fallout from BBC claims of corruption against high-ranking FIFA officials intensified today when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it would be investigating those involving FIFA vice-president Issa Hayatou, who is also an IOC member.

Thursday but Hayatou's vote was not as clear cut as the other two, both of whom have long favoured Spain