June 26 - Badminton England has announced a contiunation of its domestic badminton sponsorship with racket and equipment suppliers Yehlex UK.

JULY 5 - BRITISH SHOW JUMPING has today made another significant announcement in its build-up to London 2012 with the appointment of Accenture’s European Managing Director for Government, Lis Astall (pictured) as its new president.

June 27 - Britain’s Heather Fell (pictured) won a silver medal in  the Modern Pentathlon European Championships silver medal in Leipzig today and helped Britain win the team gold medals.

June 29 - UK Athletics has returned to Canada for the third time to recruit a coach to help it prepare for London 2012 by poaching Derek Evely (pictured) to run the High Performance Centre at Loughborough University.

May 6 - Spaniard Jose Manuel Brasa (pictured) has been appointed as the new hockey coach of India, the eight-time Olympic champions but who failed to reach the competition at the Games in Beijing last year.

JULY 7 - EDINBURGH is to host the final of archery's World Cup competition in 2010, it was announced today.

JULY 8 - ROWING makes its Paralympic Games debut in Beijing this September and ParalympicsGB has today named the eight-strong squad for the Games.

JULY 11 - LUCOZADE SPORT and the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), the governing body for British tennis, have unveiled a new partnership that they claim offers a range of safe and effective sports nutrition products that will ensure the country's top players do not test positive for drugs.

August 22 - British taekwondo player Aaron Cook and Irish boxer Paddy Barnes both complained bitterly about Olympic judging after losing to Chinese competitors in Beijing today. 

JULY 11 - EFFORTS to create a competitive British handball squad in time for the 2012 London Olympics have taken another step forward with the latest round of selections.

AUGUST 22 - THE International Rugby Board (IRB) are to introduce a new rule that clubs must release players to take part in the Olympics if it is accepted on to the Games programme for 2016.

May 7 - FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-Joon (pictured) has launched an extraordinary attack on Asian Football Confederation (AFC) chief Mohamed bin Hammam, saying he had mental problems and needed hospital treatment.