SEPTEMBER 3 - MEXICO has announced that it is launch a new high performance programme to help prepare its athletes for the 2012 Olympics.

our sports for the purpose of London 2012 where we will have the best results in the history of the Olympic

they hope to recruit more foreign coaches in disciplines like boxing, athletics - particularly the marathon

Mexico made its Olympic debut in 1900 and has competed in every Games since 1924, including hosting the

  SEPTEMBER 2 - ETHIOPIA'S Meseret Defar returns to London to defend her title on Sunday at the Adidas Women’s 5km Challenge in Hyde Park, which will be used as a venue for the 2012 Olympics, it was announced today.

for 5km on the road, will be seeking a morale booster after finishing a disappointing third in the Olympic

David Bedford, the race director of the Flora London Marathon which organises the event, said: “We are

  SEPTEMBER 1 - PAULA RADLIFFE (pictured) has tipped London to stage an Olympics in 2012 "100 per cent better" than Beijing and also that she will finally win a medal.

  The 34-year-old Bedford world record holder, who finished 23rd in the Olympic marathon in Beijing

Radcliffe said: "I only needed five days off and I feel great - I just wish the Olympic marathon had

London would be Radcliffe's fifth consectutive Olympic appearance but so far her best performance was

JULY 5 - LONDON tier-one sponsor Adidas has today opened the doors to what, it claims, is the world's biggest store in Beijing to help them cash in on the 2008 Olympics.

separate deals to be a top-tier sponsor of both the Beijing and London Games.Adidas' association with the Olympic

1936 Olympics in Berlin and Emil Zatopek when he took an unprecdented triple of 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon

decathlon at the 1980 and 1984 Games.Adidas has also had a long-standing agreement with the British Olympic

JUNE 1 - LINFORD CHRISTIE (pictured), the 1992 Olympic 100 metres champion, admitted today that he is

of nandrolone recorded were among the highest ever registered.He is banned for life by the British Olympic

split decision after a member of the appeals panel fell asleep and could not be woken up during the marathon

it was revealed that Christie had been invited by the then London Mayor Ken Livingstone to carry the Olympic

a dinner at Windsor Castle next week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of London hosting the 1908 Olympic

  Among the guests attending will be Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee

He will be joined at the dinner organised jointly by the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the London

Marathon by the Princess Royal, a member of the IOC, double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes

, Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, and the leaders of over 20 National Olympic Committees whose

our country we should also celebrate the role we have played in helping to support and develop the Olympic

  A GROUP of Spanish sportsmen and women are backing a new campaign to combat racism, an issue which has the potential to seriously undermine Madrid's bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

The campaign is organised by the Autonomous Community of Madrid, the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE),

Mercedes Coghen, the chief executive of the Madrid 2016 Olympic bid, said: "Sport really can be a vehicle

Atlético de Madrid, Marcelo and Gago, from Real Madrid, Uche and Granero, from Getafe, former world marathon

  Paula Radcliffe is facing Olympic heartbreak again after suffering a stress fracture of her hip

at 23 miles when she had been the shortest-priced of favourites to win the Olympic gold that would have

destined to join a group of athletes who were out of this world but, for one reason or another, never won Olympic

She had just won her first London Marathon and the confidence was coarsing through their veins.  

It would be great if that was winning Olympic gold in London 2012.  

11 years, being the only British daily newspaper writer to correctly predict in 2005 that London's Olympic

today the world record holder will know in four weeks time whether she will be fit enough to run in the marathon

and realistic about chances of being fit but is refusing to give up her dream of finally landing the Olympic

Yelling, who has been selected to run the marathon alongside Radcliffe in Beijing, added: “I don’t know

to be there in Beijing, for me to be running alongside me and for her to achieve her dreams in the marathon

  BRITISH sportsmen and women are travelling all over the world either seeking to qualify for the Beijing Olympics or to continue their preparations and insidethegames is with them every step of the way

marathon medal in Beijing if, as looks likely, Paula Radcliffe is forced to pull out because of injury

, has revealed she has requested UK Athletics if instead of going to the British Olympic Association's

The 34-year-old winner of this year's Osaka Marathon believes there is little difference between the

Cash boost for Olympic swimmer   BEIJING-BOUND Cassie Patten has received a boost to her ambitions

of picking up an Olympic medal thanks to a sponsorship deal by Babcock Sports and Social Club.

  CASSIE PATTEN (pictured), who won a bronze medal in the 10km Olympic open water in Beijing earlier

“There have always been two things that I have wanted to achieve - one is running a marathon and the

  PAULA RADCLIFFE (pictured) will run her first race since the Olympic marathon when she competes

in the Bupa Great South Run on October 26 as a warm-up for the following week's New York City Marathon

The world record holder for the marathon said: "I don't know much about the course but I have heard it

But the world marathon record holder's determination to compete after the setback and attempt to achieve

That saw her announce last week she will defend her New York Marathon title on November 2 and the high-quality

  A MAJOR row has errupted in Irish athletics after it emerged Patsy McGonagle (pictured), who heads up the country's high performance committee, was under investigation for gross misconduct.

McGonagle has been a member of the board for 16 years, and was Olympic team manager for both the Sydney

They are Alan Storey, the former coach of 2000 Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Sonia O'Sullivan, who

was recently voted on as a member of the ruling Executive Board of the Olympic Council of Ireland.  

Storey, a former chief executive of the London Marathon, was Britain's director for endurance but announced

  A MAJOR row has errupted in Irish athletics after it emerged Patsy McGonagle (pictured), who heads up the country's high performance committee, was under investigation for gross misconduct.

McGonagle has been a member of the board for 16 years, and was Olympic team manager for both the Sydney

They are Alan Storey, the former coach of 2000 Olympic 5,000m silver medallist Sonia O'Sullivan, who

was recently voted on as a member of the ruling Executive Board of the Olympic Council of Ireland.  

Storey, a former chief executive of the London Marathon, was Britain's director for endurance but announced

 SOUTH KOREA'S Sports Minister Yu In-chon (pictured) today announced a major multi-million pound investement in the country's athletes in the build-up to London 2012.

be staged in Daegu , winning medals in the London Olympics in 2012.South Korea has only ever won one Olympic

That came Hwang Young-Cho won the marathon at Barcelona in 1992.  

A world record in the 100 metres or marathon, for example, would earn a South Korean athlete a bonus