BRITISH JUDO ASSOCIATION (BJA) chairman Densign White (pictured) has been re-elected as a sports director of the European Judo Union (EJU), at the 60th EJU Congress held in Athens.

JOHN AMAECHI (pictured), a London 2012 ambassador, is set to cause a major stir in the United States next week by becoming the first NBA player to admit publicly he is gay.

SPAIN'S Leandro Negre (pictured) has replaced Els van Breda Vriesman as the new president of the International Hockey Federation (IHF).

ENGLAND'S Martin Gotheridge (pictured) has been appointed as the new president of the European Hockey Federation (EHF).

DENMARK and Germany have both offered to help British Handball keep its preparations for London 2012 on the right track despite its lack of funding.

SEBASTIAN COE, the chairman of London 2012, was on hand today to witness Birmingham City Council and British Gymnastics sign a new deal to raise standards of the sport there.

THE format of the Modern Pentathlon is to be changed for London 2012 after the sport's governing body voted to combine the disciplines of shooting and running into one event.

ALEX GARDINER (pictured) has returned to Athletics Canada to lead the country's track and field team through until the 2012 London Olympics.

BRITISH SHOOTING would not support a site in Barking being used for their sport in 2012, they have warned.

COACHES for the men's and women's British Volleyball programmes for the build-up to London 2012 have been unveiled today by the British Volleyball Federation.

LEEDS bantamweight Nicola Adams (pictured) today moved within one more win of becoming England's first women's world amateur boxing champion just as the sport begins to prepare for its inclusion in the London 2012 Olympics.

LONDON 2012 have denied a newspaper story that Sebastian Coe (pictured) said “F*** ’em” after being asked about objections from Wales and Scotland to the idea of a British Olympic football team and said that they consulted lawyers.

BRITAIN'S women's volleyball team said that the disappointment of being overlooked for funding last week proved to be the spur for them to beat Nigeria.

THE Portuguese town of Montemor-o-Velho has been selected to host the 2010 European Rowing Championships, it has been announced.

MALCOLM ARNOLD (pictured), the man who guided Colin Jackson's career, has claimed that British athletics' poor performances can be traced back to the lack of importance attached to coaches in the sport.