January 11 - Britain's heptathlete world champion Jessica Ennis (pictured), BMX star Jamie Bestwick and

Nottingham-born Jamie Bestwick (pictured) claimed his seventh gold medal in BMX Vert at the 2010 X Games

December 22 - World diving champion Tom Daley has stepped out for the first time on one of the dive boards where he hopes to go for gold at the London 2012 Olympics.

Pidgeon, 21, of Cheltenham, stood on the final straight in the Olympic Stadium while three-time world BMX

parts of the country can enjoy the great spectacle of cycling in close quarters – be it road, track, BMX

By Tom Degun in LondonDecember 6 - London Mayor Boris Johnson today urged Londoners to "get off the sofa and get active" as he announced £2.4 million ($3.8 million) funding for 18 projects to increase participation in sport and physical activity among Londoners.

schools, and Access Sport, which will set up 50 sports clubs in the Olympic Boroughs, including five BMX

By Tom Degun in LondonNovember 16 - Hotel chain Holiday Inn have today introduced a programme offering 1,500 free nights to 50 emerging and established British athletes including Olympic champions such Rebecca Adlington, Tim Brabants, Victoria Pendleton and Christine Ohuruogu as they prepare for the London 2012 Games.

marathon specialist Richard Whitehead will also be part of the programme.Other athletes benefiting include BMX

By David Owen Only two companies are top-tier sponsors of both of the world’s most powerful sports bodies, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA. One is Coca-Cola; the other is Visa. So an obvious question for Colin Grannell, executive vice president partnership marketing at Visa Europe, is why both? Sitting in his office near Paddington station in west London, Grannell - who will be part of a panel discussing the "Perfect Event" at next month’s Global Sports Industry Congress - addresses the subject with a combination of clarity and insight that is the product of a 20-year career with the payments...

standing and they are just about to pull the arrow in the archery, or someone is just about to do a BMX

rsquo;ve got that familiar Olympic buzz, but everything is young, fresh and dynamic, like a brand new BMX

July 31 - Britain's Shanaze Reade (pictured) claimed the third world BMX title of her career with

June 30 - The roof has been lifted into place on the 6,000-seat Velodrome being built for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

After the Games, a road cycle circuit and mountain bike course will be added to the Velodrome and BMX

By Tom Degun June 9 - Britain’s Olympic cycling champion Jamie Staff (pictured) is set to try to deny his former team-mates, including Sir Chris Hoy, the opportunity of glory at London 2012 after accepting a new job to coach the United States track sprint team.

Staff, a former BMX world champion, said: "I am very excited to be given the opportunity to develop

April 1 - World champion Ed Clancy (pictured) today saw the progress being made on the Olympic Velodrome as London 2012 officials claimed they remained on on target to meet all their major construction milestones this year.

After the Games, a road cycle circuit and mountain bike course will be added to the Velodrome and BMX

March 28 - Jamie Staff (pictured), a member of the British sprint team that won the Olympic gold medal at Beijing in 2008, today announced his retirement from cycling.

The Kent rider, who turns 37 next month, started his career as a BMX rider and won the world title

in 1996 before switching to the track in 2001 because BMX was then not part of the Olympic programme

cycling would not lose its seat at the Summer Olympics table because of its outdoor events such as BMX

January 11 - Valerie Vili (pictured), the Olympic and world shot put champion, has been selected as one of the three finalists for the prestigious New Zealander of the Year Award.

section - the cycling duo of Alison Shanks, who won the individual pursuit, and Sarah Walker, in BMX

I was only 19 and being hyped up as a gold-medal hopeful in the BMX event, which brought a huge amount

handle the pressure that goes hand-in-hand with competing at that level.The girl who won gold in the BMX

As well as training with the GB BMX squad almost every day, I also get to ride with the BMX team that

I support, Team Reade, which includes six of the other top BMX riders from around the country (aged

competition.Due to the injury, I wasn't able to defend my BMX World Championship title this summer so