Supermarket sweep to erase £79m shortfall

Sainsbury's in talks to become 'tier one' sponsor for 2012 athletes

Van Commenee gets tough with Olympic flops

UK Athletics head coach says there is no room for sentiment over the issue of future funding for British competitors

Radcliffe to race in Flora London Marathon

New York City Marathon winner plans a victorious return in 2008 to the course she has won on three times previously

Radcliffe wins New York Marathon

The Brit led from start to finish to win the ING New York City Marathon women's race for the third time

Paula Radcliffe in appeal over Olympic arena

Britain’s finest marathoner does not want the sport in Britain to lose one of its greatest legacies

Radcliffe says she's still in for the long haul

Briton says she would not swap her marathon achievements for an Olympic gold as she prepares to defend her New York title

Applications pour in for slice of £500m funds

Sport England faces an impossible task in the run-up to London 2012 as demands rise whilst the funding has shrunk

Assured victory by Radcliffe in rain

Ten weeks after Olympic disappointment in Beijing, runner is out on the soggy streets of Portsmouth to set British record

Radcliffe itching to impress on her return

Briton unlikely to heed advice that she should cut down on her arduous training to be competitive at London 2012

Disgraced Graham placed under house arrest

The world-renowned athletics coach is sentenced to a year's house arrest for lying during a probe into the Balco doping scandal

Pavey out of Great South Run

British athlete withdraws from next Sunday's race, where she was due to race Paula Radcliffe, after picking up a groin injury

Russians risk wrath of IAAF over drugs cheats

Seven athletes banned on eve of Olympics will be able to compete at 2009 World Championships

Ten athletes who changed our view of sport

Severiano Ballesteros is among those who had a profound impact

Thompson waits for call from Van Commenee

Two-times Olympic decathlon champion ready to help in any capacity - but warns that results will not come overnight

Rower puts athletics team in their place

British bronze-medal winner Matt Wells has accused team's track and field athletes of underachievement in Beijing

Simmonds adds new dimension to girl power

Determination of 13-year-old Paralympic swimmer is pure gold

Woodward's plan faces financial hurdle

Sir Clive Woodward's popular template for Olympic progress will require £15 million in funding over the next four years

Chambers backs retest of Olympic samples

The disgraced sprinter has welcomed the IOC's decision to re-analyse the results of doping tests at the Beijing Games

Montgomery sentenced on heroin charges

The disgraced former Olympic athlete, currently in jail for fraud, has been given a further five-year term

IOC to retest Olympic samples

All Beijing blood samples will be re-analysed using a new system developed for the Tour de France