*The essential app of the Summer is giving the world their own social medal ceremony, whether they like it or not!*   With all the world’s eyes on London this summer, a free iPhone app, Get Your Flag Out allows you to bask in glory when your favourite countries win a medal and ensures you get...
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Team GB Head Coach, Charles Van Commenee, is hoping to evoke some Chruchillian spirit in the camp after disclosing that he has already begun drafting "the mother of all speeches", to be de delivered to his athletes the night before the 2012 Olympics start.
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Chelsea's young defender Ryan Bertrand has declared that he would be willing to move away from Stamford Bridge on-loan in order to gain more first team experience.
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I spent the other afternoon in the company of Mr Ben Ainslie, Olympic legend, world's best sailor and a man going for a fourth Olympic gold medal in Weymouth next year.   It was, as always a pleasure.
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By Ian Stafford

Great Britain’s swimmers went from strength to strength in Berlin as they concluded their performance at the FINA World Cup with 13 medals, when former World Championship silver medallist Fran Halsall won gold in the 100 metres individual medley and James Goddard set a new British record in the 200m event.
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Great Britain’s boxers have arrived in Baku for the World Championships to join over 650 boxers, registered from 120 countries.
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Amateur boxing's world governing body has moved to deny claims they received millions of dollars from Azerbaijan in return for two gold medals at the London Olympics.
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British Olympics Association elite performance director Sir Clive Woodward remains confident of athletics success at next year's Olympics, despite a mixed World Championships for the Great Britain team.
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Lee Pearson’s track record at the highest level of his sport is impeccable. Over the course of eleven years, he has raided a glittering haul of nine Paralympic golds from dressage events at Sydney, Athens and Beijing.
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Arriving outside the wonderful backdrop of the Tate Modern to my right and the City of London to my left, for a National Lottery event ahead of the Olympics next summer.
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Great Britain’s athletics captain and head coach Charles van Commenee still believes his team will win at least seven medals in the upcoming World Championships in Deagu South Korea.   * * Van Commenee believes the squad for the 2011 championships, which open next weekend,  is the strongest it has been since the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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Great Britain’s impressive performance at the World Swimming Championships in Shanghai drew to a close with two more medals.   Liam Tancock’s dominant swim in the 50m backstroke secured him the team’s third gold, while Hannah Miley swam a great 400m individual medley to win silver with a time of 4:34. 22.
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The Aviva UK Trials and Championship for next month’s World Championships in Daegu have arrived at exactly the right time for some GB athletes, but not for others.
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The 2010 Winter Olympics are on the way and Team GB are getting ready to bring home some medals.
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Jenny Meadows, Britain's 800 metres bronze medallist, wants the girl in the middle of the gender controversy to keep her world championships gold medal, even though her possible disqualification would upgrade the Wigan middle-distance runner to second in the world and a silver medal.
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Sanya Richards has come out in defence of Jamaican athletics during a world championships dominated by gold medal-winning sprinters from the Caribbean island, but a championships that were pre-empted by the news that five Jamaicans had failed drugs tests at their trials in Kingston in June.
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Chris Hoy was presenting a gong for best super hero at the national film awards in London. His immediate predecessor on stage was Kylie Minogue, and he would be followed by Samuel L Jackson.
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