Team GB's Phillips Idowu was at the Olympic Stadium this morning as he warmed up for triple jump qualifying, preparing to answer the critics who had questioned his readiness for the Games.

UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos said he expects Phillips Idowu to do “very well” at the London Olympics, even though head coach Charles van Commenee said he does not know if the triple jumper will be fit.

Dwain Chambers was today named in the Great Britain athletics team for London 2012, 12 years on from his last appearance at an Olympic Games, but the stunning pick of Lynsey Sharp as the only athlete in the women’s 800 metres provided the headline selection.

The Super8 athletics competition due to be staged in Glasgow next week has been cancelled due to a lack of teams.

Tottenham today took the first step in their legal battle to challenge the decision to hand the Olympic Stadium to West Ham.

UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner has claimed Olympic chiefs are morally obliged to choose West Ham’s bid to take over the Olympic Stadium instead of Tottenham’s “filthy lucre”.

UK Athletics has today announced its formal support for West Ham's bid to move to the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games.

IRELAND’S Martin Fagan will go head-to-head with Great Britain’s Mo Farah in the SPAR European cross-country championships at the Santry Demesne on December 13.

Defending marathon champion Paula Radcliffe has been selected by UK Athletics for the World Championships in Berlin in August.

Dwain Chambers is likely to decide in the next few days whether to challenge his lifetime Olympic suspension by taking legal action against the British Olympic Association's by-law.

World indoor 60 metres silver medallist Dwain Chambers, who won his battle to race in Valencia, is almost certain to take legal action in a bid to run in this summer’s Olympic Games.

Dwain Chambers admits he can now sleep soundly after claiming a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships last night following the “nightmare” surrounding his controversial return to the sport.

Scotland’s Lee McConnell has quit the 400metres hurdles and set her sights on Olympic glory in the flat one-lap event.

David Moorcroft has announced he will resign as chief executive of UK Athletics (UKA).

Olympic champion Denise Lewis returns to her home track when she competes in the Norwich Union international in Birmingham on July 25.