PETER ERIKSSON (pictured), the Swede poached from Canada and appointed last month as UK Athletics new Paralympic head coach, believes Britain's competitors are failing to fulfil their potential and, as he exclusively tells MIKE ROWBOTTOM, he plans to do something about it

DWAIN CHAMBERS, the original face of London 2012, will be allowed to compete in the Norwich Union World Indoor Trials in Sheffield this weekend after the sport's chief executive backed down in is row with the drugs cheat.

UK ATHLETICS today continued to put together a new backroom team to help its preparations for London 2012 with the announcement of two more appointments, including Canadian Kevin Tyler (pictured on the left).

ATHLETICS AUSTRALIA are to appoint a new high performance director who will focus almost exclusively on the country's best track and field talent leading up to the London Olympics after Max Binnington (pictured) stepped down.

LESS British athletes than ever are to receive the top level of National Lottery funding in the build-up to London 2012 after they won only four medals at the Beijing Olympics, including high jumper Germaine Mason (pictured), it was announced today.

August 30 - Dave Collins (pictured), sacked last year as UK Athletics' performance director after Britain failed to reach its medal target at the Olympics, has applied for a top post at the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU).

APPLICATIONS from three cities have been received for the European Athletics Indoor Championships 2011, a major build-up competition to the 2012 Olympics, it was announced today.

ANDY TURNER (pictured), one of Britain's top athletes and a training partner of Olympic 400 metres champion Christine Ohuruogu, is set to protest to UK Athletics after his £18,000 National Lottery funding was cut.

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.

FEWER of Britain's top Paralympic athletes will receive National Lottery funding in the build-up to London 2012, it was announced by UK Athletics today.

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.

FRANKIE FREDERICKS (pictured), one of the greatest sprinters in history and now a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is to run for the presidency of Athletics Namibia in an effort to help shape the sport in the build-up to London 2012.