APRIL 26 - THE chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA) is to write to Scotland's top woman's footballer Julie Fleeting (pictured) over her claim that she will refuse to represent Team GB in 2012.

MARCH 5 - DOUBLE-AMPUTEE runner Oscar Pistorius (pictured) claimed today that new tests on his prosthetic racing limbs contradict an earlier study that led the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to declare him ineligible for the Olympics.

ZARA HYDE PETER (pictured) starts in her new position as British Triathlon chief executive today having moved to the organisation from UK Athletics where she was director of athlete development.

JOHN ARMITT, the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), tonight appealed for people to start focussing on the legacy of the 2012 Games rather than the costs.

JANUARY 16 - THE director of sport at the University of Bath has claimed that the British Olympic Association (BOA) made the wrong decision in choosing Aldershot as the base for Team GB to prepare in 2012.

DECEMBER 14 - BRITISH TRIATHLON today announced it had appointed Zara Hyde Peters (pictured) as its new chief executive.

NOVEMBER 3 - PERTH will host the 2011 World Sailing Championships, a major qualifying event for the London Olympics.

NOVEMBER 2 - A EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held in the same year as the 2012 Olympics it was announced today, as exclusively revealed on insidethegames seven months ago. 

MAY 4 - ZARA PHILLIPS admitted that performing well in the London 2012 Olympics is one of her main goals for the future.

APRIL 11 - ATHLETICS IRELAND have today announced Max Jones (pictured), the former performance director of UK Athletics, as its new director of athletics to prepare it for the 2012 Olympics.

THREE-TIME Paralympic gold medal-winning swimmer, Giles Long (pictured), today announced his plans to retire from international competition, joining Tanni Grey Thompson.