By Duncan Mackay in InnsbruckJanuary 15 - The Royal College of Art in Kensington will be the base for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) during London 2012, insidethegames can reveal.

- Slovenia name King's Cross as their London 2012 homeOctober 2011: Kensington Gardens to host Africa

By Tom DegunJanuary 11 - Disability sport will feature at a pilot Youth Leadership Camp in Doha this month with Play and Train, a non-profit association involved in sport, education and development for persons with a disability, set to conduct a sport inclusion day on behalf of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The camp participants will hail from sub-Sahara Africa and the Palestinian territory, and three of them

By Tom DegunJanuary 11 - Disability sport will feature at a pilot Youth Leadership Camp in Doha this month with Play and Train, a non-profit association involved in sport, education and development for persons with a disability, set to conduct a sport inclusion day on behalf of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The camp participants will hail from sub-Sahara Africa and the Palestinian territory, and three of them

By Andrew WarshawJanuary 11 - Lennart Johansson (pictured), the former UEFA chief humbled by Sepp Blatter for the Presidency of FIFA 14 years ago, has called for an independent investigation into allegations that Blatter promised to sell World Cup television rights in return for election backing.

around the French capital.He has long believed that many FIFA member nations, not least those from Africa

By Tom DegunJanuary 10 - Great Britain men's and women's wheelchair basketball team's will discover their opponents for the opening matches of London 2012 next week with the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) set to make the draw at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury on January 21.

the Paralympic are Australia, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, South Africa

USA.The last spot in the women's event is still to be determined but it will either go to Mexico or South Africa

By Tom DegunJanuary 9 - Women in sport are set to share ideas and plan for the future when they converge in the Zimbabwe capital Harare today for the ANOCA-IOC Senior Women Sports Forum.

The two-day forum is being organised by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA

By David GoldJanuary 4 - Gabon's football team is capable of following in the footsteps of the Nigerian and Cameroonian teams that won gold at the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000 respectively, and claim glory in London later this year, says a leading sports official in the country.

will be a team to follow [at the Olympics] because it's a team with ambitions – now the champion of Africa

By David OwenElectricity, like ballet and ancient Greek, has always been a bit of a mystery to me.I had fondly imagined that if you wanted to stage a sports event in an unconventional location you simply shipped in the infrastructure, attached a standard 13-amp plug (you know, the brown wire is live; the blue one is neutral – the stuff even I know) and trained an extension lead to the nearest electrical socket.Apparently it is a bit more complicated than that.

a hat-trick of major events" – the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa

By David OwenElectricity, like ballet and ancient Greek, has always been a bit of a mystery to me.I had fondly imagined that if you wanted to stage a sports event in an unconventional location you simply shipped in the infrastructure, attached a standard 13-amp plug (you know, the brown wire is live; the blue one is neutral – the stuff even I know) and trained an extension lead to the nearest electrical socket.Apparently it is a bit more complicated than that.

a hat-trick of major events" – the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa

By Declan WarringtonJanuary 3 - Olympic Solidarity has combined with the International Table Tennis Federation and Peace and Sport to organise a week-long period of table tennis inductions for young coaches and sports educators in Burundi youth centres.

Being in Africa is a fantastic experience for me I want to pass on the values I have gained through sport

By David GoldJanuary 3 - Athletics Tanzania is battling financial constraints in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games with secretary general Suleiman Nyambui (pictured) complaining that they have no plan for a pre-Games camp.

joined the African boycott in protest over a tour by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team to South Africa

By David GoldJanuary 2 - Rwanda will host a pilot project in Africa which will bring 70 disabled children

Bizimana said that the major goal will be to boost sport participation among disabled youngsters across Africa

Youth games for the disabled are held in Asia, Europe and other continents but there are not in Africa

By Andrew WarshawDecember 28 - FIFA has been ordered by a Swiss court to release documents that could pave the way to finally naming high-ranking officials who allegedly took millions of dollars in kickbacks from World Cup broadcast deals.

is "incorruptible" claims former England 2018 bid adviserDecember 2011: IOC have "disrespected" Africa

exclusive terrestrial television, non-exclusive radio and mobile platform broadcast rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

innovative pan-African rights and media sales models meshes with the IOC's vision and objectives for Africa

By Duncan Mackay at the Ritz Carlton in TokyoDecember 17 -  FIFA President Sepp Blatter has thrown his full support behind Issa Hayatou, the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), who earlier this month was reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

is "incorruptible" claims former England 2018 bid adviserDecember 2011: IOC have "disrespected" Africa