AUGUST 28 - LINFORD CHRISTIE (pictured) has claimed that a British Olympic Association (BOA) ban on him cost Christian Malcolm the opportunity of winning a medal in the 200 metres at the Beijing Games earlier this year.

AUGUST 26 - BRITAIN'S Linford Christie (pictured) wants to get involved with India's top athletes as they begin their preparations for the London 2012 Olympics, he said today.

MARCH 5 - DOUBLE-AMPUTEE runner Oscar Pistorius (pictured) claimed today that new tests on his prosthetic racing limbs contradict an earlier study that led the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to declare him ineligible for the Olympics.

NOVEMBER 2 - A EUROPEAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held in the same year as the 2012 Olympics it was announced today, as exclusively revealed on insidethegames seven months ago. 

APRIL 11 - ATHLETICS IRELAND have today announced Max Jones (pictured), the former performance director of UK Athletics, as its new director of athletics to prepare it for the 2012 Olympics.