Summer Sports

Isinbayeva to miss rest of 2010 and will return next February

By Duncan Mackay

July 9 - Russia's Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva (pictured) will miss the rest of this year but will begin her preparations for London 2012 next February, her coach announced today.

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Olympic and world 100m champion tests positive

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

July 8 - Jamaica's Olympic and world 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser tonight withdrew from the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Lausanne after testing positive for banned drugs.

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Semenya in new row after gender doubts lifted

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

July 7 - South Africa's world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has found herself at the centre of a new row less than a day after she was cleared to return to competition following doubts over her gender.

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Darren Sutherland body to be exhumed

By Duncan Mackay

July 7 - The family of Ireland's Olympic boxer Darren Sutherland (pictured) have applied for a second post-mortem examination, it was confirmed today.

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Semenya cleared to run again after a year's investigation into gender

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

July 6 - South Africa's world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya can return to competition with immediate effect after being kept out of the sport for nearly a year because of doubts over her gender, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced today.

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Ohuruogu set to miss European Championships for second time

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun

July 6 - Beijing 2008 Olympic 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu has been omitted from the British team for the European Championships in Barcelona at the end of the month due to a persistent quad injury, it was announced today.

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England picks teenage weightlifter for Commonwealth Games

By Duncan Mackay

By Mike Rowbottom

July 5 - Sixteen-year-old Zoe Smith (pictured) today became the youngest athlete selected for England at the Delhi Commonwealth Games when she was named in a 12-strong weightlifting team.

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Nigeria London 2012 dream still alive after ban lifted

By Duncan Mackay

July 5 - Nigeria's hopes of competing in the London 2012 Olympic football tournament and trying to go one better than they did in Beijing remain alive after the country's President Goodluck Jonathan rescinded a decision to withdraw the country's teams from international competition.

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Alistair Brownlee wins European triathlon title

By Duncan Mackay

July 4 - Britain's Alistair Brownlee (pictured) today produced a sublime performance to win the 2010 Athlone ETU Triathlon European Championships.

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Phillips admits she needs to find horse to fulfil London 2012 dream

By Duncan Mackay

July 4 - World champion Zara Phillips (pictured) has admitted that her chances of competing in the eventing at the London 2012 Olympics hinge on whether she will be able to find a suitable horse in time.

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Chittenden wins silver in junior race at ETU Championships

By Duncan Mackay

July 3 - Britain had to settle for just Lucy Chittenden's silver medal in the junior event on the opening day of the ETU Triathlon European Championships in Athlone, Ireland, today.

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Olympic silver medallists Nigeria face missing London 2012 football after banned by President

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

July 2 - Olympic silver medallists and former champions Nigeria could miss the football tournament at the London 2012 Games after they were first banned from playing by the country's President and then world governing body FIFA threatened to suspend them.

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Coe to return to roots to help celebrate renovation of old training track

By Duncan Mackay

July 2 - Sebastian Coe will later this month to return to the track he trained on in the build-up to winning his second Olympic 1500 metres title in 1984 to declare the first part of a £2.3 million ($3.4 million) refurbishment scheme officially finished at a special ceremony.

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British swimmers to concentrate on Commonwealth Games reveals Pursley

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun

July 1 - Britain's head coach Dennis Pursley has revealed that his the main target for his swimmers this year, including Olympic medallists Rebecca Adlington and Jo Jackson, will be the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi - although he does not sound overly enthusiastic about the idea.

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England drawn against Australia at Commonwealth Games

By Duncan Mackay

July 1 - England will face Australia in the pool stages of the rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in what coach Ben Ryan describes as "the tastiest match in the qualifying round".

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