June 2 - Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba's triple Olympic boxing champion, has been banned from helping London 2012 launch its new logo on Tuesday.

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.

A SENIOR figure has warned the Football Association that a bid for the 2018 World Cup should not be at the expense of producing the next generation of young English players.

DAVID CAMERON (pictured), the leader of the Conservative Party, today said a tournament between the four football teams from the Home Countries should be held to decide who represents Britain at the 2012 London Olympics.

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.

THE National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes, built in the euphoria following Britain's gold medal winning performance at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, is to be turned into a new, state-of-the-art centre for Network Rail.

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.

THE Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) are opposing stringent new drug-testing rules that are similar to those imposed on Britain's Olympic athletes.

SKATEBOARDING is set to become an Olympic sport at the London 2012 Games, it was claimed today.

THE new chief executive of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) has said that he is in support of a united British team at the 2012 Olympics but he will not try to change his employers opposition to the idea.

IT HAS been reported today that British Handball is set to appoint Norwegian Vigdis Holmeset (pictured) as coach for its women's team for the 2012 Olympics.

BRITISH VOLLEYBALL has received a major boost with the announcement that it is to stage the first round of the World Championships in Sheffield.

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.