Summer Sports




Boxing disappointed new funding falls short of target

By Tom Degun

December 11 - Derek Mapp (pictured), the executive chairman of the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA), claims that the sport has been short-changed by UK Sport's decision yesterday to award it less than £1 million extra to help it prepare for London 2012 when women are due to make their debut on the Olympic programme. 
 




Olympic first as no gold medal awarded in Sydney 100 metres

By Duncan Mackay in Lausanne

December 9 - Sydney's Olympic Games created another record today, more than nine years after the flame was extinguished, when it was decided that the women's 100 metres will be the first event in the 113-year history of the Games where no gold medal will be awarded because the first two across the line, Marion Jones and Ekaterina Thanou, have both had their careers stained by doping.



Pendleton: Don't blame me for Olympic cycling changes

By Duncan Mackay in Lausanne

December 9 - Victoria Pendleton (pictured), the woman who has led the campaign to ensure that female cyclists are given the same opportunities at London 2012 as the men, has claimed that she fears the row she sparked after last year's Olympics in Beijing have overshadowed her achievements.


Ennis voted Sportswoman of the Year by journalists

December 9 - Jessica Ennis (pictured) was today voted the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) Sportswoman of the Year, reward for her outstanding performance at the World Championships in Berlin in August when she won the gold medal in the heptathlon just a year after serious injury forced her to miss the Olympics in Beijing.



We have stablised ASA, claims Mali

December 8 - Athletics South Africa (ASA) is stable after its board was suspended and replaced with an interim leadership body in the fall-out from the Caster Semenya (pictured) scandal, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) claimed today.