July 27 - Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi (pictured), the Olympic 1500 metres champion, faced disciplinary hearing today to explain why he tested positive for the blood-boosting drug CERA after the Beijing Games.

July 22 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has extended until April 2011 bans seven Russian athletes who tampered with urine samples, ensuring they will miss next month's World Championships in Berlin.

July 20 - For the first time ever, a women-only athletics coaching conference will take place in the UK next week.

July 20 - Kelly Sotherton (pictured), the 2004 Olympic bronze medallist, has ruled herself out of next month’s World Championships in Berlin due to a heel injury and because she wants to concentrate on London 2012.

July 19 - Britain finished with an unprecedented 18 medals in their most successful European Under-23 Championships, which finished in the Lithuanian capital Kaunas today, coming second overall in the final medal table.

July 19 - Double amputee Oscar Pistorius (pictured) has given up trying to qualify for the 400 meters at the World Championships in Berlin next month, he has admitted.

JUNE 1 - LINFORD CHRISTIE (pictured), the 1992 Olympic 100 metres champion, admitted today that he is barred from any involvement in the 2012 London Games because he has tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.

May 21 - Benita Fitzgerald Mosley (pictured), the 1984 Olympic 100 metres hurdles champion, has been appointed as USA Track & Field's (USATF) new chief of sport performance, it was announced today.

February 9 - Charles Van Commenee (pictured) today started his new job as head coach of UK Athletics as the sport continues its preparations for the London 2012 Olympics but which his immediate concern is disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers.

OCTOBER 18 - EUROPEAN ATHLETICS president Hansjörg Wirz (pictured) launched the new strategy for the sport in the continent in front of a packed press conference at the European Athletics Convention in Amsterdam today. 

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.