By Tom Degun May 7 - Britain’s wheelchair tennis players face a difficult task at the Invacare World Team Cup today as the men’s side, led by the country's  number one David Phillipson (pictured), take on top seeds the Netherlands in the semi-final while the women’s team meet Thailand in a bid to secure third place.

Whiley rescues Britain World Team Cup campaign again May 2010: Whiley inspires Britain to victory over Spain

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 5 - Former handball player Oscar Grau has been chosen to head the proposed bid by Barcelona-Pyrenees to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, it has been announced.

nbsp;Barcelona star, considered one of the greatest players in the club's history and who played for Spain

By Tom Degun May 4 - Another spectacular display from the world number one ranked junior Jordanne Whiley (pictured) saw Britain reach the women’s semi-finals at the 2010 Invacare World Team Cup in Antalya, Turkey, after a 2-1 win over the United States.

insideworldparasport.biz Related stories May 2010: Whiley inspires Britain to victory over Spain

By Tom Degun May 3 - Britain’s 11-strong squad, which includes women’s world number 13 Jordanne Whiley (pictured), enjoyed a largely successful start to the 2010 Invacare World Team Cup in Antalya, Turkey.

The women’s trio, who are the second seeds this year, beat Spain in a deciding doubles rubber despite

I was fortunate to be in Spain for the Deed of Gift match between defenders Alinghi and challengers BMW

By Mike Rowbottom in London April 26 - Four years ago, Tsegay Kebede (pictured) was helping his father sell firewood in Addis Ababa, earning around $1 (£0.65) a day to help keep his large family.

But Kebede, whose journey from Addis Ababa had involved stops in Israel and Spain, insisted cheerily

April 24 - Manu Ginobili (pictured), a member of the Argentina basketball team that won the Olympic gold medal at Athens in 2004, will miss this year's World Championships in Turkey partly because he wants to concentrate on preparing for London 2012, he has announced.

They are due to the current Olympic gold medallists the United States, world champions Spain and world

By Mike Rowbottom in London April 23 - Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru (pictured) today declared himself ready to retain his title in London having arrived in the capital after a long and involved plane journey the previous evening along with 17 other elite runners including fellow Kenyan Abel Kirui, the world champion.

" Also on the flight were 17 British citizens who had been struggling to get home from Spain.

April 22 - Dozens of dignitaries and athletes, led by Spain's King Juan Carlos, attended a funeral mass tonight for former International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch.

promoter of exemplary Olympic values, whose friendship, firm loyalty to the crown and permanent service to Spain

"Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain have lost one of their universal icons.

April 22 - Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), today led the tributes to his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, as his coffin draped with the Olympic flag was wheeled into the Catalonia state headquarters in Barcelona today to the sound of the Olympic hymn.

to express my warm condolences to the family - you have lost a beloved father and grandfather; Spain

By Tom Degun in London April 22 - Virgin London Marathon Race Director Dave Bedford (pictured) today revealed that every elite athlete entered in the prestigious event on Sunday (April 25) is expected to appear despite the airline disruptions caused by the Icelandic volcanic eruption.

travel arrangements including £110,000 on a jet to transport runners from Kenya and Eritrea to Spain

By David Owen It was on a sultry Moscow Monday nearly nine years ago, in the pistachio and white splendour of the Hall of Columns on the fringes of the Kremlin, that the Samaranch era appeared to draw to a close. That was where the election of Jacques Rogge, the then 80-year-old Juan Antonio Samaranch’s successor as International Olympic Committee President, was announced with all the solemnity of a state investiture. That event constituted my baptism into the mysterious ways of the Olympic Movement.

"At that time, the alternatives in Spain were rather limited: one was within the regime or outside

By Mike Rowbottom April 21 - Kurt Fearnley (pictured), Australia’s Paralympic marathon champion, will defend his London Marathon title after all following a last-minute intervention by Qantas Airlines.

States, Masazumi Soejima and Kota Hokinoue of Japan, Rafael Botello Jiminez and Roger Verdaguer of Spain

April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former President of the of International Olympic Commitee (IOC), died today at a hospital in Barcelona.

He pursued a career in sports politics in dictator Francisco Franco's fascist Spain and won a place on

  "Our hearts go out to his family, his friends, the people of Spain and most importantly

April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former President of the of International Olympic Commitee (IOC), died today at a hospital in Barcelona.

He pursued a career in sports politics in dictator Francisco Franco's fascist Spain and won a place on

  "Our hearts go out to his family, his friends, the people of Spain and most importantly