By Mike Rowbottom April 20 - Kurt Fearnley (pictured), the Australian defending champion, has been forced to pull out of this year’s Virgin London Marathon men’s wheelchair race because of the closure of European airports following the Icelandic volcanic eruption.

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

April 20 - London Marathon organisers are arranging for a private jet to pick-up Olympic gold medallist and defending champion Sammy Wanjiru (pictured) from Kenya so that he can travel to England to compete in the race next Sunday (April 25).

morning run in Kenya and am about to start my journey by road to Nairobi where we shall be airlifted to Spain

Wanjiru, who also won the Chicago Marathon last October, said another jet would pick them up in Spain

may affect us during the race and my agent has indicated to me that he another jet will pick us in Spain

"I think travelling by road or train from Spain to London may be too long for us.

  We had a week-long winter training camp in Spain where we thought we’d get a respite

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year April 16 - Lillehammer, who hosted what is generally regarded as the best-ever Winter Olympics, are weighing up whether to launch a bid for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games. 

Other cities expected to bid are Lucerne in Switzerland and Zaragoza in Spain while Lake Placid, which

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year April 13 - A proposed bid from Sofia to host the 2016 Youth Winter Olympic Games has been dropped after Bulgaria admitted that it could not fulfill the conditions set by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Other cities expected to bid are Lucerne in Switzerland and Zaragoza in Spain while Lake Placid,

By Tom Degun April 12 - The England blind squad received a huge boost as they avoided current world champions Argentina in today’s draw for this summer’s IBSA World Blind Football Championships.

The draw proved kind to England as the hosts will now face Spain, Japan, Columbia and South Korea in

England’s campaign is set to get against Spain on August 14 before two games against Asian opposition

of an investigation into her gender, plans to return to international competition in Zaragoza, Spain

April 2 - Ed Wright (pictured) bagged Britain’s only gold on the final day of the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Palma, with British sailors picking up a total of five medals from the opening leg of the European regatta today.

the RS:X windsurfing event, finishing behind the four-times Olympic medallist Alessandra Sensini and Spain

April 2 - LeBron James (pictured), the world's top basketball player, has been warned that he could be jeopardising his chances of playing for the United States at the London 2012 Olympics if he misses this year's World Championships in Turkey to make a movie.

The US are in the same group as Argentina, who beat them to the Olympic gold medal at Athens, Spain,

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 28 - Trinidad and Tobago will not to bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, meaning it looks like Abuja and the Gold Coast will be the only candidates to have declared when the deadline for applications closes on Wednesday (March 31).

Patrick Manning had revealed during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in Port-of-Spain

Meeting Alistair Brownlee, Britain’s 21-year-old world triathlon champion, brings to mind the phrase "fresh-faced". It is a description that might have been invented just for him, although "fresh-air faced" would probably be even more accurate. As he is proud to declare, Brownlee - who looks likely to be one of Britain’s brightest Olympic contenders on home soil two years hence - has been inspired over the years by training in the bracing environs of the Yorkshire Moors and dales near to where he lives in Otley Chevin, near Leeds.

I think in future I might have a week or two away, somewhere not too far like Spain, just maybe somewhere

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 18 - Vladimir Putin (pictured) is being urged to reprise his successful role in bringing the 2014 Olympics to Sochi and personally lead Russia's bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup in December.

selected ahead of the other European candidates, England and joint bids from Belgium/Netherlands and Spain

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 12 - The BBC have today defended their lack of television coverage of the Paralympics, which open here tonight, claiming that budget restrictions mean they cannot hope to match the 160 hours they devoted to the Olympics last month.

International channels showing the Opening Ceremony live are ZDF from Germany, SBS from South Korea, TVE from Spain

March 6 - England stormed into the semi-finals of the hockey World Cup after 24 years with a 3-2 win over hosts India in New Delhi although it was closer than it should have been at the end.

" Meanwhile, favourites Australia defeated Beijing Olympic silver-medallists Spain 2-1 to put

huge goal difference of plus-16, can only miss the bus if they lose to Pakistan by a big margin and Spain

Spain are lying third in the group with six points, while India, Pakistan and South Africa have three

Charlesworth said he was delighted at the win, but slammed the umpires for awarding seven penalty corners to Spain

March 4 - The first stone of a new beach volleyball Development Centre  in Lorca, Spain, was

Spain has enjoyed relative success in FIVB competitions, most recently finishing fifth in the FIVB 2007

grassroots and senior levels, as well as the men’s and women’s teams hoping to represent Spain

Martin Santos said: "The construction of this centre places Spain in the front row of beach