By Duncan Mackay 

October 17 - Irish show jumper Denis Lynch (pictured) was officially disqualified tonight from the Olympics equestrian events for a positive drug test on his horse.

OCTOBER 18 - ATHLETICS will continue to be held at the Olympic Stadium after it has staged the 2012 Games, the sport's chief executive in Britain claims he has been promised.

OCTOBER 18 - BRUNO GRANDI (pictured) was re-elected as the International Gymnastics Federation president at its meeting in Helsinki today for the next four years through the 2012 London Olympics.

OCTOBER 19 - UK ATHLETICS expect to confirm next month that the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace, whose winners this year included Jamaica;s Usain Bolt (pictured), will again be held over two days next year.

 OCTOBER 20 - Fencing has appeared in every Olympics since the rebirth of the Games in 1896 and was a major success in Beijing but, as DAVID OWEN reports, a power struggle to run the sport has developed involving a Russian billionaire with links to Premiership club Arsenal

 By Duncan Mackay 

October 20 - Russia today banned six athletes caught breaking doping rules on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, including European discus champion Darya Pishchalnikova (pictured), but have controversially backdated the suspensions so they will be able to compete at next year's World Championships in Berlin.

OCTOBER 20 - JESPER HOLMRIS, the coach of Britain's women's handball team, today praised the squad after their victory in the Four Nations Tournament in Sheffield showed that they are making fast progress on the road to London 2012.

OCTOBER 21 - THE International Boxing Association (AIBA) has submitted a formal proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have women’s boxing included in the sports programme of the London Olympics in 2012, they announced today.

OCTOBER 21 - ENGLAND ATHLETICS are to make between 15 to 20 staff redundant in a restructuring of their nine semi-autonomous regional business units into a single national team designed to boost the sport in the build-up to London 2012, they announced today.

OCTOBER 22 - A CALL has started for Steve Nash (pictured), one of the country's leading basketball players who has British parents, to oversee Canada's preparations for the 2012 Olympics in basketball and football.

OCTOBER 27 - DAVID MOORCROFT (pictured), the former chief executive of UK Athletics, has been appointed as the chairman of a new personal fitness training company that is hoping to encourage people to get active in the build-up to London 2012, it was announced today.

OCTOBER 28 - BADMINTON ENGLAND have begun advertising for the post of  a £75,000 per year performance director to help the sport prepare for the World Championships in London in 2011 and the following year's Olympics.

October 29 - Lance Armstrong's (pictured) sensational return to cycling has captured the imagination of the world but, in the second of this exclusive two-part interview, former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound is not celebrating, as he tells Paul Gains

OCTOBER 29 - FRANKIE GAVIN (pictured) today launched a major boxing match between Britain and Germany in his home city of Birmingham but admitted he may have turned professional by the time it is staged in December.

OCTOBER 30 -TERRY EDWARDS (pictured), who earlier this year led Britain's most successful boxing performance at the Olympics for half-a-century, is set to quit the sport because he is not happy with the changes being made in how it is run.