AUGUST 14 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has warned that athletics could end up with a reputation for drugs as bad as American football unless it starts to clean up its act.

OCTOBER 18 - ATHLETICS will continue to be held at the Olympic Stadium after it has staged the 2012 Games, the sport's chief executive in Britain claims he has been promised.

OCTOBER 21 - ENGLAND ATHLETICS are to make between 15 to 20 staff redundant in a restructuring of their nine semi-autonomous regional business units into a single national team designed to boost the sport in the build-up to London 2012, they announced today.

SEPTEMBER 28 - BRITAIN'S athletes who competed in the Olympics last month in Beijing are "greedy" and put "money before medals", a member of the team has claimed today.

JULY 21 - MCCAIN today announced a five-year £5 millionsponsorship deal with UK Athletics, as first revealed on insidethegames last week.

MAY 8 – BRITISH ATHLETICS has benefited from the London Olympic “effect” by signing another major sponsorship deal just a month after getting £50 million backing from Norwich Union. Vonage, an Internet telephone company, have signed up to become the official telecoms sponsor to UK Athletics and will set up Team Vonage to financially support a group of elite stars tipped for success in 2012.

By Duncan Mackay

September 8 - Britain's Stephen Miller completed a hat-trick of titles in the club at the IPC World Athletics Championships in Assen today.