OCTOBER 22 - A CALL has started for Steve Nash (pictured), one of the country's leading basketball players who has British parents, to oversee Canada's preparations for the 2012 Olympics in basketball and football.

OCTOBER 27 - DAVID MOORCROFT (pictured), the former chief executive of UK Athletics, has been appointed as the chairman of a new personal fitness training company that is hoping to encourage people to get active in the build-up to London 2012, it was announced today.

OCTOBER 28 - BADMINTON ENGLAND have begun advertising for the post of  a £75,000 per year performance director to help the sport prepare for the World Championships in London in 2011 and the following year's Olympics.

October 29 - Lance Armstrong's (pictured) sensational return to cycling has captured the imagination of the world but, in the second of this exclusive two-part interview, former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound is not celebrating, as he tells Paul Gains

OCTOBER 29 - FRANKIE GAVIN (pictured) today launched a major boxing match between Britain and Germany in his home city of Birmingham but admitted he may have turned professional by the time it is staged in December.

OCTOBER 30 -TERRY EDWARDS (pictured), who earlier this year led Britain's most successful boxing performance at the Olympics for half-a-century, is set to quit the sport because he is not happy with the changes being made in how it is run.

SEPTEMBER 1 - UK ATHLETICS today announced that Dave Collins (pictured) had been sacked as the performance director after they failed to meet their medal target at the Beijing Olympics, as predicted on insidethegames yesterday.

AUGUST 17 - THE British Olympic Association (BOA) have today defended their treatment of 10,000 metres runner Kate Reed (pictured), who was forced to prove her fitness by running a time-trial on the eve of her race.

AUGUST 17 - MARK HUNTER and Zac Purchase (pictured) won Britain's second rowing gold medal of the Olympics with victory in the lightweight men's double sculls, one of three medals for the team today at Shunyi Rowing Park.

AUGUST 18 - WOMEN'S boxing could be introduced at the 2012 Olympics in London after the International Boxing Association (AIBA) confirmed it would press for its introduction, as first reported on insidethegames nearly two years ago.

AUGUST 18 - SPORTS have been told to follow the example set by cycling, rowing and sailing to ensure that they are as successful when London stages the Olympics in 2012.

AUGUST 18 - SPORTS have been told to follow the example set by cycling, rowing and sailing to ensure that they are as successful when London stages the Olympics in 2012.

AUGUST 18 - CYCLING, Britain's most successful sport in Beijing, is not under threat of being thrown out of the 2012 London Olympics because of its poor record on drugs, the head of the international governing said today.

AUGUST 19 - WITH British cycling riding high, London Mayor Boris Johnson (pictured) today opened Redbridge Cycling Centre, which it is claimed is the first physical legacy of London staging the 2012 Olympics.

AUGUST 19 - DESIGNS for the handball arena to be used for London 2012 have been revealed.