ALAN STOREY (pictured), one of Britain's top distance coaches for more than 30 years, is to leave his post as the senior performance manager for endurance, UK Athletics confirmed today.

during the Olympics in Beijing when UK Athletics admitted that they and officials from the British Olympic

Storey started his coaching career in the North East where he guided Mike McLeod to the Olympic 10,000m

He worked for several years at the London Marathon, including a spell as the chief executive, while continuning

for the final of the 5,000m in Beijing was heavily criticised by several experts, most notably 1976 Olympic

 AUGUST 5 - INTERNATIONAL experts may be tipping Britain to have its best Olympic performance for a century

being predicted by the likes of Italian statistican Luciano Barra and Steve Roush, the United States Olympic

"In fact, one of the biggest Olympic bets we have taken so far is £3,000 on the British team to end up

win the triple jump, Kelly Sotherton is 5/1 to win the heptathlon, Paula Radcliffe is 6/1 to win the marathon

In other sports, Hills make Andy Murray 8/1 to win the Olympic tennis singles gold and teenage diver

Meanwhile, Frankie Gavin, Britain's first world amateur boxing champion, is 2/1 to follow it up with an Olympic

  OLYMPIC legend Lasse Viren, who broke a generation of British distance runner's hearts, will start

May 26 and then take part in the Capital’s newest road race around some of the route of the proposed marathon

  The Finn became one of the greatest ever Olympic athletes when he pulled off an extraordinary

"It’s been a long time since I was winning Olympic races but I’m excited to have the chance to get this

great new event underway and then run along part of the proposed route of the 2012 Olympic marathon

our official starter for this exciting new event,” said Bedford, race director of the Flora London Marathon

This year’s London Marathon champions Martin Lel and Irina Mikitenko head the two strong elite fields

 AUGUST 18 - THE United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have been given a warning after offering financial

former captain of the US football team, is one of 29 athletes chasing four places on the International Olympic

Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission, which is the link between active competitors and the Olympic

Hoy, Britain's three-time Olympic gold medal cyclist, is also standing in the election for which every

also been sanctioned by the IOC for breaking election rules by distributing leaflets in an area in the Olympic

record holder WIlson Kipketer, Spanish tennis player Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario and Kenya's former world marathon

  PAULA RADCLIFFE (pictured) claimed today that she can still claim an Olympic title after confirming

her first major step towards London 2012 will come at the ING New York City Marathon next month.

to gold in Beijing at the age of 38 and Radcliffe insisted she is still capable of winning her first Olympic

When asked by insidethegames whether she had given up on her Olympic dream, she said: "I don't think

my Olympic career is over yet.  

career might finish and it might be that I haven't achieved what I think I'm capable of doing in an Olympic

  PAULA RADCLIFFE (pictured) has been selected for Britain's Olympic marathon team for this summer's

problem and is determined to complete "unfinished business" in Beijing after dropping out of the 2004 Olympic

marathon with a leg injury and stomach upset.  

Yamauchi said: “I am delighted to be selected for Team GB to run the marathon in Beijing.  

in marathon running in the UK.”  

Robinson said: “It feels great to be selected for my second Olympic Games, the culmination of four years

  PAULA RADCLIFFE (pictured) has today given organisers of the torch relay in London on Sunday a major boost by confirming that she will take part.

  The marathon world record holder will carry the torch over Tower Bridge as the flame winds its way

Radcliffe joins a strong contingent of current, former and future Olympic athletes, with Sir Steven Redgrave

Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes will complete the final leg of the relay by lighting an Olympic

treatment in Limerick, Ireland, on the toe injury which has forced her to withdraw from the Flora London Marathon

Former heptathlon Olympic champion Denise Lewis will carry the torch into Downing Street, where she will

DAME KELLY HOLMES has thrown her support behind calls for the athletics track to be retained at the Olympic

become a matter of fierce debate in recent weeks after Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic

Now Dame Kelly, the 2004 Olympic 800m and 1500m, has thrown her support behind London 2012 chairman Sebastian

Coe and world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe in insisting that a track must remain at a downsized

success but athletics has always placed itself as the premier sport in the Olympics, you always hope for Olympic

  THE Beijing Olympics have not even taken place yet, let alone the 2012 Games, but, as insidethegames well-connected columnist DAVID OWEN reports, the race host 2016 is already hotting up

  WHILE Tibet is rightly dominating Olympic headlines, a fascinating contest for the right to stage

As members of the 15-strong International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board pack their bags ahead

And the matter is of sufficient importance for the Olympic Movement that it would be a surprise if it

process, how the notion of a three-city shortlist might appeal to some hard-working members of the Olympic

He has twice run the Athens Marathon. 

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

This year’s European Championships were held in Marathon, Greece, on the 2004 Olympic regatta course

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

This year’s European Championships were held in Marathon, Greece, on the 2004 Olympic regatta course

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

  This year’s European Championships were held in Marathon, Greece, on the 2004 Olympic regatta

 JULY 18 - ANNA HEMMINGS (pictured), whose career was nearly ended by a debilitating illness, was today added to Britain's canoe and kayak squad for the Olympics in Beijing next month.

Hemmings said: “I am delighted to be selected for my second Olympic Games; competing at the Olympics

being introduced to the sport by a friend, and went on to win two bronze medals in the World Junior Marathon

 JUNE 3 - MINISTER FOR TRADE & INVESTMENT Lord Digby Jones (pictured) is leading the push to encourage British companies to launch into the global sports sector.

"Whether it's the Silverstone Grand Prix, London Marathon, Wimbledon, the Manchest4er Commonwealth Games

or Premier League Football and now the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games our expertise in staging international

"Now is the right time for British companies to leverage off the prominence of our Olympic win and plan

 AUGUST 23 - DAVE COLLINS' (pictured) position as performance director of UK Athletics looks to be under threat after Steve Cram, the influential chairman of the English Institute of Sport, warned he was concerned about how well the sport will perform in London 2012.

They currently have four medals with only the men's marathon to come tomorrow for which Dan Robinson

The men, who were the defending Olympic champions, were disqualified in the semi-final after running

But Cram, the 1984 Olympic 1500m silver medallist and former world mile record holder who is in Beijing

commentating for the BBC TV, challenged Collins' view of Britain's Olympic peformance.  

Foster, the Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist when Britain had their worst ever performance in athletics