August 25 - A group of Ethiopian athletes have fled from their hotel in London and failed to make their connecting flight to Edinburgh to compete at the  Falkirk Cup athletics event.

August 25 - A £5 million cycling park in Gravesened, set to be Britain's biggest biggest, has been given the go-ahead fter receiving substantial backing from British Cycling and it is scheduled to be completed in 2012.

August 25 - Vero Communications, the company set-up by former London 2012 director of public relations Mike Lee, have been appointed by Hull to help them become a 2018 World Cup host city.

August 25 - China is confident of winning at least two of the three gold medals available when women's boxing makes its debut at London 2012, the President of the country's national boxing association has claimed.

August 25 - Caster Semenya (pictured), the controversial world 800 metres champion, is set to be greeted by thousands of fans today when she lands back home in South Africa.

OCTOBER 17 - SCOTLAND'S players should not be forced to miss out on the opportunity of playing football in the 2012 Olympics, David Davies (pictured), the former executive director of the Football Association, said today.

OCTOBER 17 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured) and Jonathan Edwards are among 372 key decision makers attending the first European Athletics Convention, which begins in Amsterdam today.

By Duncan Mackay 

October 17 - Irish show jumper Denis Lynch (pictured) was officially disqualified tonight from the Olympics equestrian events for a positive drug test on his horse.

OCTOBER 18 - ATHLETICS will continue to be held at the Olympic Stadium after it has staged the 2012 Games, the sport's chief executive in Britain claims he has been promised.

OCTOBER 18 - BRUNO GRANDI (pictured) was re-elected as the International Gymnastics Federation president at its meeting in Helsinki today for the next four years through the 2012 London Olympics.

OCTOBER 19 - UK ATHLETICS expect to confirm next month that the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, whose winners this year included Jamaica;s Usain Bolt (pictured), will again be held over two days next year.

 OCTOBER 20 - Fencing has appeared in every Olympics since the rebirth of the Games in 1896 and was a major success in Beijing but, as DAVID OWEN reports, a power struggle to run the sport has developed involving a Russian billionaire with links to Premiership club Arsenal

 By Duncan Mackay 

October 20 - Russia today banned six athletes caught breaking doping rules on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, including European discus champion Darya Pishchalnikova (pictured), but have controversially backdated the suspensions so they will be able to compete at next year's World Championships in Berlin.

OCTOBER 20 - JESPER HOLMRIS, the coach of Britain's women's handball team, today praised the squad after their victory in the Four Nations Tournament in Sheffield showed that they are making fast progress on the road to London 2012.

OCTOBER 21 - THE International Boxing Association (AIBA) has submitted a formal proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have women’s boxing included in the sports programme of the London Olympics in 2012, they announced today.