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Germaine Mason's mission to tackle gang culture driven by jailed brother

23.07.09

Britain’s Olympic medallist is using his profile to send out a warning to youths as sibling serves sentence for his part in the horrific murder of a student... more

Teams close to deal over budget row

10.06.09

Motor sport: Formula One appears to be closing in on an agreement in the budget cap row ahead of the crucial announcement of the entrants for 2010... more

2012 stadium to host New Year fireworks spectacular

11.05.09

Boris Johnson is planning a spectacular free New Year’s Eve party for 80,000 Londoners in the Olympic stadium seven months before the Games begin... more

Wembley loses top race

16.04.09

Motor Sport: The Race of Champions, which saw Wembley transformed into a racetrack, is leaving Europe for the first time in its 22-year history... more

Pistorius recovering after surgery

23.02.09

Athletics: South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is recovering well at a Johannesburg hospital after undergoing surgery on head and facial injuries sustained in a boating accident... more

Land of hope and glory

16.01.09

The world’s best landscapers and gardeners have joined forces to turn the Olympic park into the Games’ greatest legacy. Rowan Moore reports... more

The best of the best

30.12.08

Who do the experts consider to be the actor, dancer, playwright or conductor at the very top of their game? We asked our critics to give their highly subjective views.... more

Christine has got a new Games dream

16.10.08

Athletics: Olympic heroine is hoping to be an inspiration to the young for 2012 now that she has finally cast the doubters aside... more

16 days we will never forget

16.10.08

Jacques Rogge could not have put it any better as he brought the Games of the XXIX Olympiad to a close and marvelled at what he had just seen.... more

Boris takes the flag again as Beijing games close

17.09.08

Boris Johnson accepted the Paralympic flag, signalling the end of the 2008 Beijing Games and marking the run-up to London 2012... more

Weir suffers his second gold setback

11.09.08

Paralympics: World champion wheelchair racer David Weir was feeling low again after his second disappointment in 24 hours at the Paralympics in Beijing... more

We'll have a better Games without all this ballyhoo

26.08.08

What an undiluted pleasure it was to see Mayor Boris cock up the flag-handing-over at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games... more

Ohuruogu will star at Gateshead

26.08.08

Olympics 400-metres gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu will top the bill at the British Grand Prix in Gateshead... more

Forgotten medallist Johnson gets ready to remind people

22.08.08

Jade Johnson still believes she has the ability to regain her position as one of British athletics' biggest stars... more

Idowu eyes being pride of Hackney

21.08.08

Phillips Idowu is hoping to be given the keys to Hackney if he win the Olympic triple jump final... more

Veronica keeps Jamaica on a high

21.08.08

Veronica Campbell-Brown followed the Usain Bolt path to glory in the Bird's Nest Stadium as she continued Jamaica's glorious track Games by successfully defending her Olympic 200m crown... more

Idowu falls short of his dream

21.08.08

British triple jump superstar is left inconsolable after failing to land the gold medal he desperately craved ... more

End of the road for Paula Radcliffe

19.08.08

Sadly Paula has been through too much to contend for gold in 2012 but Idowu can take the big prize... more

I want to be the Phelps of 2012 says golden girl Becky

18.08.08

Double gold medallist Rebecca Adlington has said she dreams of having the same success as her hero Michael Phelps... more

Hosts stunned as their big hope in the Bird's Nest is forced out

18.08.08

China was left in a state of shock today when Liu Xiang was forced to pull out of the Olympic 110 metres hurdles with an Achilles injury... more

Becks and a double-decker lead the handover ceremony

18.08.08

David Beckham is to take centre stage at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing as London becomes the official Olympic city... more

British athletes limber up for gold Saturday

15.08.08

British athletes began their push for a weekend Olympic gold rush - with heptathlete Kelly Sotherton leading the way in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium... more

British hopefuls set sights on a golden weekend

15.08.08

With the vast majority of British Olympic medal hopes falling around the same time, the success or otherwise of Team GB's campaign is likely to rest on just one extraordinarily hectic weekend... more

Abseiling Briton held in new 'Free Tibet' protest

15.08.08

A British activist has been detained after unfurling a Free Tibet banner close to the Beijing Olympics site in a protest over China's human rights abuses... more

Unsynchronised Tom must learn to duck and dive

12.08.08

It is easy to forget that Team GB diver is only 14 years old and he has already gained good experience... more

Time for sport to take our breath away

08.08.08

An Olympic Games to take the breath away was about to be ignited amid the red glow of Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium... more

Now let's go for it: Foster rallies team GB

08.08.08

Flagbearer Mark Foster today urged his fellow athletes to seize the moment and make it a glorious Beijing Games for Team GB... more

World joins China for Olympic launch

08.08.08

With a heart-stopping burst of fire, what we once called the Bamboo Curtain was raised on the most ambitious Olympics in history... more

Eight-year-old picked for star Olympic role

11.07.08

An eight-year-old Anglo-Chinese girl has been lined up to appear with David Beckham when London receives the Olympic flag from Beijing next month... more