FEBRUARY 16 - ENGLAND'S head badminton coach Ian Wright said tonight that he hopes the experience of pushing Denmark so close in the final of the European Team Championships yesterday will prove invaluable for some of his younger players.

The hosts let slip a 2-0 lead at the Echo Arena in Liverpool to eventually lose 3-2 as the Danes collected their eighth successive title in this event.

August 19 - The British Judo Association have officially launched its new centralised training centre, based in Dartford, which is aimed to ensure the sport delivers medals at London 2012 and beyond.

DECEMBER 4 - EIGHTof Britain’s most promising cycling prospects will fly the flag for drug-free sport following today’s launch of a unique collaboration between British Cycling and UK Sport.

DECEMBER 6 - ENGLAND HOCKEY has signed a £500,000 sponsorship deal over the next six years in the run up to 2012 from Man Group plc.

DECEMBER 10 - MO FARAH'S awesome finishing speed on the last circuit ensured he emphatically claimed the European Championship Cross Country title for Britain in San Giorgio su Legnano today.

DECEMBER 10 - ZARA PHILLIPS was tonight named 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year - 35 years after her mother, the Princess Royal, received the same honour.

DECEMBER 12 - THREE of Britain's four national soccer team managers today backed a united team for the 2012 London Olympics.

DECEMBER 15 - TOP French volleyball coach Philippe Blain (pictured) is flying over to Britain this weekend to offer advice and support at the GB Volleyball Camps in Sheffield which start today.

DECEMBER 18 - BRITISH VOLLEYBALL has appointed two new coaches in its goal to qualify in beach volleyball for the Olympics at Beijing in 2008 and make an impression in London 2012.

DECEMBER 19 - THE Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) are hoping to celebrate their centenary year by staging the 2011 World Senior Championships in Dublin.

DECEMBER 20 - IN THE shadow of where the beach volleyball will take place in 2012, the foreign coaches appointed by Britain have declared their confidence in the sport being successful at the London Olympics.

DECEMBER 21 - ENGLAND HOCKEY has appointed sponsorship, PR and event agency Capitalize to implement a PR campaign for the EuroHockey Nations Championships to be held in Manchester in August 2007, one of the most important events to be held in Britian before the 2012 Olympics.

DECEMBER 22 - THE International Amateur Boxing Association's (AIBA) new president Ching-Kuo Wu (pictured)has set up a reform committee and appointed International Olympic Committee executive board member Gerhard Heiberg as its chairman as the sport aims to repair its tarnished reputation.

DECEMBER 23 - SARAH SPRINGMAN (pictured), one of the pioneers of the sport, has been appointed as the inaugural president and chair of the Board of directors of the recently-established British Triathlon Federation (BTF), who have high hopes of success in London 2012.