DECEMBER 15 - LONDON was today chosen to host the 2011 World Badminton Championships.

NOVEMBER 1 - BRITISH SHOOTING has hired a top London public relations firm in an effort to improve its image ahead of the 2012 Olympics.

NOVEMBER 1 - NORTHERN IRELAND'S Steve Davis (pictured) has thrown his support behind the idea of a united British football team for the 2012 Olympics despite his own governing body and fans being against the idea.

NOVEMBER 2 - A PETITION has been set up on the Number 10 Downing Street website objecting to the formation of a united British football team to compete in the 2012 Olympics.

NOVEMBER 2 - BIRMINGHAM lightweight Frankie Gavin (pictured) produced the performance of the tournament so far to claim a place in the final of the World Amateur Championships in Chicago tonight.

NOVEMBER 3 - BIRMINGHAM lightweight Frankie Gavin (pictured) was crowned England's first ever World Amateur champion in Chicago tonight after a magnificent 18-10 victory over Italian Domenico Valentino.

NOVEMBER 30 - THE Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced today that Make Architects with PTW and Ove Arup and Partners have been appointed to design the Handball Arena, it was announced today.

August 16 - Billy Payne (pictured), President of Augusta National, which stages the Masters, and the organiser of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics believes the introduction of golf in the Games would be good for the sport.

August 16 - Billy Payne (pictured), President of Augusta National, which stages the Masters, and the organiser of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics believes the introduction of golf in the Games would be good for the sport.

August 15 - Katy Whitfield today upstaged Britain's newly-crowned world 10 kilometre open champion Keri-Anne Payne to win the British Gas Great London Swim.

By Duncan Mackay in Berlin

August 14 - Sebastian Coe's chances of becoming President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 2011 could be ended if Lamine Diack decides to stand again, even though he would be 78 by then.

August 13 - British athletes who win a medal at the World Championships, which open in Berlin on Saturday, will be given Alfa Romeo sports car as a reward, it was announced today.

August 13 - Golf and rugby sevens are set to be added at the 2016 Olympics and women's boxing will be included at London 2012 it was decided by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ruling Executive Board here today.

August 13 - Golf and rugby sevens are set to be added at the 2016 Olympics and women's boxing will be included at London 2012 it was decided by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ruling Executive Board here today.

May 11 - Aaron Cook today became the first ever male British competior to win a World Taekwondo World Junior Championship title after taking gold in Turkey.