By Dame Kelly Holmes - 24 March 2009
 

Nothing, but nothing, will ever compare with the nerves and excitement I felt when I stood on the start line of my Olympic finals. But today, as I host the first of my new Trust's events for retiring athletes I do feel a certain sense of anticipation.

 
 

By Paul Gains - 22 March 2009

With less than a year until the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver-Whistler the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is sticking by its ambitious goal of topping the medal table.

 

 

 

By Duncan Mackay - 21 March 2009
 

I am currently in Berlin covering the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council meeting, which is being held in the Inter Continental hotel and its feels like I have been transported back in time.

 

 
 

By David Sparkes - 20 March 2009
 

Recent cutbacks at UK Sport have meant there is a massive financial hole to fill if Britain is to qualify two teams for the water polo tournament at the London 2012 Olympics.

 

By Sebastian Coe - 19 March 2009
 

Just over a year on from the launch of the London 2012 Business Network the economic benefits generated by the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games speak for themselves.

 

 

 

By Martin Gillingham - 18 March 2009
 

Until quite recently, UK Athletics employed a convicted British drugs cheat on not one but two salaries. A fortnight ago, they picked another for the British team at the European indoor championships, his umpteenth in a red, white and blue vest, since being banned for taking drugs.

 

 

By Mike Rowbottom - 18 March 2009
 

For those backing the seven sports seeking a way into the Olympics, these are nervy days.
 

 

 

By Tony Ward - 17 March 2009
 

I was deeply saddened to read of the death of John Rodda (pictured), who wrote on athletics for the Guardian between 1960 and 1995. John was the doyen and most respected of athletics writers. His contacts with the sport were at the very highest level as those of us, on the other side of the fence as it were, all too frequently discovered.

By John Steele - 13 March 2009

 

 

The end of March signals the end of UK Sport’s Beijing cycle of investment and the beginning of the new Olympiad that takes us through to London 2012. The investment of the past four years has born incredible fruit, with the amazing Olympic and Paralympic success of Beijing accompanied by a shift in attitude and approach across the elite sports landscape.    
 

 
 

By Martin Gillingham - 10 March 2009
 

 Sebastian Coe reckons it’s a good idea and “more important than just re-choreographing the deckchairs”.

 

By Michele Verroken - 18 February 2009

In the short history of drug testing in sport, there used to be a time when to be included in the out of competition testing programme was regarded by the athlete as an indicator that you had “made it” into the elite of your sport.
 

 

By Karim Bashir - 22 January 2009
 
The dust has settled since UK Sport announced the funding allocation for the Olympic and Paralympic sports that hadn’t been told what funding they were getting for the London cycle last year.