Sir Alex Ferguson with one of the many trophies that he’s won with Manchester United. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
Lord Coe wants Sir Alex Ferguson to lead a British football team at the London Olympics in 2012. Although the idea of a British team is unpopular with the FAs of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Coe has [...]

Dwain Chambers ran the fastest 100m by a Briton this year in Sofia. Photograph: Malcolm Couzens/AP
Dwain Chambers’ legal team have launched a case against the British Olympic Association in order to reverse the sprinter’s Olympic ban and allow him to run in Beijing.
Chambers is currently banned from running at the Olympics after serving a [...]

An artist’s impression of the new Aquatic Centre for 2012 Olympics in London. Photograph: PA
Designs for the London 2012 Olympic aquatic centre broke its original budget of 73m more than three years before games organisers admitted that the true cost had tripled to 242m.
The Department for Culture Media and Sport and the Olympic Delivery Authority [...]

Chambers leaves UK Sport this afternoon. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-doping chief John Scott says his meeting with Dwain Chambers over the disgraced sprinter’s former drug use was “positive and constructive”. Chambers is thought to have laid out the extent of his drug regime in detail to Scott in a bid to clear his name and [...]