MAY 23 - SHEFFIELD'S plans to become a key player in the build up to the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012 took a major step forward today with the news that the British volleyball squads are making the city their home. The Team GB men's and women's squads are to relocate to the English Institute of Sport-Sheffield as part of the British Volleyball Federation's development plans ahead of London 2012.

MAY 26 - CRAIG FALLON has today become Britain’s first male European judo Champion in 10 years after winning gold on the first day of the 2006 European Judo Championships, in Tampere, Finland.

MAY 27 - EDINBURGH'S Sarah Clark (pictured) has won the –63kg title on the second day of the 2006 European Judo Championships, in Tampere, Finland – beating both the World Champion and reigning European Champion to take gold.

MAY 30 - AN AMBITIOUS blueprint for the future of the controversial Maze Prison site in Northern Ireland, featuring a 42,000 sports stadium that officials hope will stage matches during the 2012 Olympic football tournament, will be unveiled today.

MAY 31 - SPORT ENGLAND today announced a major review of the way basketball is structured and administered. The process is intended to help ensure that the sport can capitalise on its growing popularity and recent success at international level leading up to the 2012 London Olympics.

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.