June 18 - Plans to boost the popularity of handball on the back of the 2012 Olympics have received a boost this week when the International and European Handball Federations agreed to participate on a working group.

Australian Cycling today signed a record A$3 million (£1.4 million) sponsorship deal that it hopes will help it close the gap on Britain at the 2012 London Olympics.

The first ever World Para-Taekwondo Championships are due to begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, tomorrow, an important milestone in the development of the sport.

June 6 - Birmingham has unveiled the designs for its new £58 million Olympic standard swimming pool, which it hopes to finish in time to host pre-Games training camp for a major team before London 2012.

June 5 - Plans to build a £40 million shooting venue at Woolwich for the Olympic Games have been lambasted in Westminster by Lord Lucas.

5th June - A gold medal at the London Olympics will be worth $250,000 (£178,775) for United States wrestlers under a new scheme announced scheme established to keep the top competitors in the sport.

June 5 - Indian wrestlers training for next year's Commonwealth Games are angry over their federation's failure to reimburse their expenses for two overseas tournaments.

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 31 - Britain’s Alistair Brownlee (pictured) today beat Spain's world champion Javier Gomez to win the Dextro Energy Triathlon, part of the ITU World Championship Series

May 27 - India has appointed Hungary's Imre Juga as its new weightlifting coach for next year's Commonwealth Games on a $5,000 (£3,123) per month salary.

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.

May 19 - Singapore and Hong Kong will host matches if Japan's bid to host the 2015 or 2019 Rugby World Cup is successful, they revealed today.

May 17 - The new retractable roof at Wimbledon's Centre Court, which will stage tennis during the 2012 Olympics, was used for the first time today in a series of matches featuring some of the sport's best known names.

May 6 - The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has opened new offices in Lausanne at a ceremony attended by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge in an effort to consolidate its position as an Olympic sport.