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As Vince Cable's week-long visit to Brazil concluded on Friday, the Government's intentions towards Latin America's economic giant could not be clearer.

Delhi's chaotic preparations for next month's Commonwealth Games proved India was not capable of hosting major international events, Games ambassador Saina Nehwal said on Saturday, before retracting the statement hours later.

Turkmenistan said Saturday that it planned to invest an initial $1.9 billion (1.2 billion pounds) to build a new "Olympic City" sports facility although the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic has not announced any plans to bid for the games.

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial) is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa , and one of the smallest nations on the continent. In the late-1990s, American companies helped discover ...

Olympic marathon swimmer Cassie Patten here leads a pack of amateur triathletes during a swim in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Priestley won the 60-metres hurdles at the UK Championships this year. Under the rules of the British Olympic Association, he is now ineligible to take part in the London Olympics in 2012 and all future Games.

China's Olympic swimming champion Liu Zige will skip November's Asian Games to concentrate on next year's World Championships.

China's Olympic swimming champion Liu Zige will skip November's Asian Games to concentrate on next year's world championships, Chinese swimming officials said.

Japan's multiple Olympic gold medallist Kosuke Kitajima will head his country's Asian Games swimming team at the November event, Japanese officials said on Friday.

A FOUR-DAY mini Olympic Games giving young people the experience of a major sporting tournament is under way in the North-East.

Asian Games organisers are poised to switch the quadrennial event from 2018 to 2019 to avoid clashing with the Commonwealth Games in the future.

Olympic athlete David Moorcroft will visit Newcastle-under-Lyme this month to launch the construction of the borough's Health and Wellbeing Centre.

LONDON— Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair credits Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi with helping London secure the 2012 Olympics. Blair also says in his new autobiography that he was dubious about ...

NEW DELHI — An international sporting event which India hoped would herald its emergence as a regional power and serve as a springboard to an Olympic bid is instead struggling with a host of issues as the clock ...

THE Youth Olympic Games came to a conclusion with Hungary's Bence Biczo nearly moving higher within the World Top 10 in the men's 200 fly. Women's 50 free China's Tang ... Lim (26.05), Brazil's Carolina Bergamaschi (26 ...

NEW DELHI -- An international sporting event which India hoped would herald its emergence as a regional power and serve as a springboard to an Olympic bid is instead struggling with a host of issues as the ...

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Triple gold medallist Chris Hoy helps unveil designs for London's 2012 Olympic cycling facilities.

London 2012 chiefs tell BBC Sport they are not seriously considering a scheme to flatten the Olympic Stadium after the Games.

Most Britons do not think the government is capable of successfully managing the 2012 Olympics, a survey suggests.

Plans for a four-year programme of cultural events ahead of the 2012 Olympics are announced in London.

Uefa's David Taylor says a GB team at the Olympics would endanger British football's separate identities.

Public enthusiasm for attending the 2012 London Olympic Games has risen almost 30% following the Beijing Games, a survey for the BBC suggests.

Britain could revise its medals target for London 2012 following the team's success at the Beijing Olympics.

Mayor Boris Johnson receives the Olympic flag to signal the start of London's reign as Olympic host city and spark wild celebrations in the capital.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown pays tribute to the achievements of the British team at the Beijing Olympics.

London 2012 chief Lord Coe admits that the current Olympics in Beijing will be the last Games of its scale.

See the Olympic building site through the eyes of a 2012 cynic

pThe British Olympic Association (BOA) today selected the badminton team members for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. /p pThe contenders are: /p pAndrew Smith will represent Britain in the Men’s singles.br / Tracey Hallam is the British Women’s contender. Women’s Doubles will be played by Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg. The Mixed Doubles teams are Nathan Robertson amp; Gail Emms, and Anthony Clark amp; Donna Kellogg./p pGood luck in Beijing, and Watch the Birdie!/p

BBC Sport marks the centenary of the 1908 Olympic Games

pNorth West fencers Jon Willis and Stuart Marshall have qualified for the British Fencing and Sport UK for World Class Development status as part of the Olympic Pathway programme./p pThey will each receive an Athlete Personal Award and will train on a full-time basis at the British Fencing Elite Training Centre in Hornsey, North London, and overseas./p pSource: a href=http://www.nw-fencing.org.uk/index.php?option=com_contentamp;task=viewamp;id=77amp;Itemid=1British Fencing North West/a/p

BBC producer Dominic Sutherland tells the story of the sometimes farcical race to stage the 1948 Olympics in London.

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