SEPTEMBER 25 - CHAMPERY in Switzerland and Krasnaya Pakhra in Russia have today been awarded major cycling events in the build-up to London 2012 by the International Cycling Union (UCI).

Champery, a ski resort located between Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc, 90 minutes, from Geneva Airport  has been awarded the 2011 World Championships for mountain bike and trial.

Krasnaya Pakhra, which is in the Moscow region and mentioned in War and Peace, has won its bid to host the BMX World Championships in the same year, an event where Britain's Shanaze Reade should be among the favourites for a gold medal.

Mountain biking’s biggest annual race heads to Canberra for 2009 and Mont-Ste-Anne, Quebec in 2010 while the BMX World Championships in 2009 and 2010 will be held in Adelaide and Pietermartzburg in South Africa respectively.

But the decision by the UCI to award the 2011 event to Champery upset the Italian candidate Veneto-Dolomiti.

An official said: "It's only a political selection.

"We have presented such a good, amazing and interesting proposal, but [UCI] President [Pat] McQuaid said that Switzerland didn't organise a World Championships since 2000 and this is one of the element considered for the final decision."

SEPTEMBER 26 - The International Cycling Union (UCI) and the Tour de France organisers have reached an agreement that puts an end to their long-running feud over the sport's calendar and which threatened riders eligibility to ride in the 2012 Olympics.

AUGUST 30 - DAME KELLY HOLMES (pictured) has today urged athletics to change if it wants to achieve success at the 2012 London Olympics.

AUGUST 30 - LOUIS SMITH (pictured), who in Beijing became the first British male gymnast to win an individual medal for a century, is set to sign a contract to be represented by Linford Christie's management company.

AUGUST 31 - TRIPLE gold medal winning cyclist Chris Hoy (pictured) said today that he hopes a compromise can be worked out so Scotland can take part in a united British football team at the 2012 Olympics.

JULY 1 - BRITAIN today named its shooting team for the Beijing Olympics, led by 2000 gold medallist Richard Faulds (pictured), who will be competing in his fourth Games.

JULY 1 - BRITAIN look set to have a male competitor in the Modern Pentathlon at the Olympics for the first time since 1996 after winning a controversial appeal that has led to a gold medallist being kicked out of the Beijing Games.

JULY 1 - OLYMPIC gold medallist Jason Gardener (pictured) has been appointed to the board of UK Athletics as it continues to prepare for the 2012 Games in London.

September 27 - Britain's Nicole Cooke (pictured) today made history as she overcame years of frustration by adding her first road race title at the World Championships in Varese to the Olympic gold medal she won in Beijing last month.

SEPTEMBER 28 - BRITAIN'S athletes who competed in the Olympics last month in Beijing are "greedy" and put "money before medals", a member of the team has claimed today.

SEPTEMBER 28 - FRANKIE GAVIN (pictured), the world amateur boxing champion, has pledged to resist overtures to turn professional and target London 2012 if Terry Edwards is retained as the team's head coach.

SEPTEMBER 29 - TICKETS for the 2009 World Gymnastics Championships to be held at The O2 in London will go on sale on Wednesday.

SEPTEMBER 29 - AUSTRALIA'S head cycling coach Shayne Bannan (pictured) claimed today that they can close the gap on Britain by London 2012 despite the team having their worst performance in the Olympics for 28 years.

JULY 2 - AMERICAN car manufacturer Dodge are to sponsor this year's Urban Beach Volleyball Tour, which will stage matches across Britain's cities, it was announced today.

JULY 3 - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), in partnership with UK Athletics, today launched a major new drive to promote athletics globally with a cutting edge magazine and interactive global website to exploit the interest in the sport in the run-up to London 2012.