Sports





Britain's women impress in Euro warm-up

September 3 - Britain's women's handball team have warmed up for their forthcoming European Championship clashes with Finland later this month with a successful training camp and tournament in Italy in which Warrington's Holly Lam-Moores (pictured) finished as the top scorer.


Military precision to keep British cyclists on track for success

September 3 - British Cycling, who already run the world's most technically advanced programme in their sport, have been given another edge over their rivals in the build-up to London 2012 after Europe's largest defence contractor BAE Systems installed a new sophisticated £100,000 performance monitoring system at the Manchester Velodrome.





Date set for Whitaker doping hearing

September 2 - Britain's Olympic silver medallist Michael Whitaker (pictured) is to appear in front of an International Equestrian Federation (FEI) disciplinary tribunal in Lausanne next week on doping charges which potentially could wreck his hopes of competing in the 2012 London Games.





McCrory confident on Cubans

Glenn McCrory_in_Cuba_12March 4 - Former world boxing champion Glenn McCrory (pictured) hopes to get the Cuban boxing team to commit to base themselves in Newcastle during the build-up to the 2012 Olympics by as early as May.