FEBRUARY 1 - TEAM ORIGIN, the team founded by Sir Keith Mills and captained by triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie, today the America's Cup holder in Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in Auckland.  

executive of London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics and is now the deputy chairman, arrived in New

Zealand just as the team he has put together and is bankrolling crossed the line.

  WOMEN'S football has benefitted at the expense of hockey, basketball and badminton as New Zealand

  Sport & Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) announced that women's football would receive NZ$300,000

"The Beijing Olympics confirmed the high performance strategy is working and the approach New Zealand

performance sport in 2008/09, including Prime Minister's Scholarships, performance enhancement grants and New

Zealand Academy of Sport performance services.  

  WOMEN'S football has benefitted at the expense of hockey, basketball and badminton as New Zealand

  Sport & Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) announced that women's football would receive NZ$300,000

"The Beijing Olympics confirmed the high performance strategy is working and the approach New Zealand

performance sport in 2008/09, including Prime Minister's Scholarships, performance enhancement grants and New

Zealand Academy of Sport performance services.  

  A BID by Australia to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games could be dropped because the Government wants to concentrate on trying to beat England to stage the World Cup that year instead.

declared its intention to bid for 2018 while candidates are also expected to emerge from Durban and New

Zealand.  

  AUSTRALIA ended their six-match tour with a hard-fought 18-11 win over the Barbarians in the Olympic Centenary match at Wembley tonight watched by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge.

Australia had won four of their six tour matches, also beating Italy, England and France but losing to New

Zealand, in Hong Kong, and Wales last weekend in Cardiff.

  OCTOBER 31 - CHARLES VAN COMMENEE'S (pictured) recent appointment as the new head coach of UK Athletics

  BADMINTONENGLAND has just started looking for a new performance director to take the sport through

The new role will fill a gap left two years ago by the departure of Denmark's Finn Traerup.  

performance director, the man who shadowed much of his work during that time, Ian Turner, was poached by New

Zealand, and the sport confirmed another Australian, Mike Scott, in the post.  

passing on their specialist knowledge in the British cause, and - so UK Sport devoutly hope - preparing a new

  OCTOBER 28 - TEAMORIGIN, the British America’s Cup team founded by London 2012 deputy chairman Sir Keith Mills (pictured), confirmed today that it will enter two forthcoming America ’s Cup type regattas.

will be contested by both former and potential America's Cup teams will be staged by Emirates Team New

Zealand, the America’s Cup finalists who lost out to Alinghi last year.  

It is a new challenge for Ainslie, who was part of a team alongside Sir Richard Branson that had to abandoned

an attempt on setting a new Transatlantic record after heavy waves hit Virgin Money.  

  SEPTEMBER 25 - THE Foootball Association today gave the green light to a new FA Women's Super League

Association and the FA have promised that a team will participate in the 2012 tournament in London and the new

''The new Super League will provide a concentrated, high-quality competition, and during the summer months

''I am very confident that the new performance unit and central contracts will help us raise the bar

under-17 women's teams will also compete in their respective age group World Cup Finals, in Chile and New

Zealand.

  SEPTEMBER 23 - ENGLAND will host the 2010 women’s Rugby World Cup at a series of venues across London, it was announced today by the International Rugby Board (IRB).

Football Union, the IRB felt that the tournament would be best positioned to elevate the women’s game to new

In 2006 England reached the final of the event, losing 25-17 to New Zealand.  

  SEPTEMBER 20 - WALES, whose athletes won 14 of Britain's 102 medals at the Paralympics, including 10 gold, with four for swimmer David Roberts (pictured), are claiming that statistically they were the most successful country in Beijing.

competed as an individual country they would have been the most successful nation in Beijing, ahead of New

Zealand and Australia.  

  SEPTEMBER 20 - SOUTH AFRICA are not to bid against England and Wales to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup, an event they have not staged since 1995 when they won the tournament.

Australia are also expected to bid for the 2015 World Cup but with 2011 event due to be staged in New

Zealand there will be pressure for the event to return to Europe.

  SEPTEMBER 19 - THE Judo World Cup will return to the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham tomorrow for the third consectutive year.

against competitors from nations including Germany, Canada, Belgium, Finland, United States, Spain, New

Zealand, Norway, Lithuania and Japan, with some sending their Beijing competitors.  

  SEPTEMBER 19 - THE Judo World Cup will return to the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham tomorrow for the third consectutive year.

against competitors from nations including Germany, Canada, Belgium, Finland, United States, Spain, New

Zealand, Norway, Lithuania and Japan, with some sending their Beijing competitors.  

  SEPTEMBER 19 - NEW ZEALAND captain Richie McCaw (pictured) has thrown his support behind rugby union's

  SEPTEMBER 19 - NEW ZEALAND captain Richie McCaw (pictured) has thrown his support behind rugby union's