White House urged to keep up hard line on Jones

Leading figure in US athletics warns President against granting a pardon or reducing jail term for disgraced athlete

Yamauchi happy in heat of Beijing

British marathon runner feels she is in with chance of a medal despite stifling humidity in the Olympics' host city

London Olympic price consultants cost £87m

Wage bill at the government agency building the 2012 Games leapt 36 per cent with inflation posing further worry

Underground doping culture exposed in China

With the Olympics a fortnight away, a TV documentary uncovers illegal gene therapy and cheap steroids at a Chinese hospital

Teenagers provide antidote to Chambers

Two British girls are lighting up middle-distance running

Double scullers battle through adversity

Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington believe they can beat the excellent Chinese pair at next month's Olympic rowing regatta

Cavendish turns his thoughts to Beijing

Sprinter withdraws from the Tour de France after winning four stages so he can step up preparations for Olympic Games

Ben Ainslie gone with the wind

There can be only one outcome when the sailor plays mind games

Denise Johns: There is more to beach volleyball than girls in bikinis

Denise Johns, Britain’s top professional beach volleyball player, tells Brian Schofield there is more to the sport than girls in bikinis

Tyrone Edgar in hurry to make up for lost time

Tyrone Edgar is eager to perform well for Britain after he and Craig Pickering were confirmed in the Olympic 100 metres team

Torres, 41, proves age no obstacle to Beijing

24 years after making her Olympic debut in Los Angeles, Dara Torres is bound for her fifth games at the age of 41

Caught in Time: The Dream Team sweep all before them on their way to Olympic Gold in 1992

I didn’t get where I am today without...

Athlete turned broadcaster Jonathan Edwards

The story IOC does not want told

One of the 'Lost Boys' of Sudan will do well to make his voice heard

Steelworks' move lets Beijing breathe

The Chinese capital is so keen to cut pollution in time for the Olympics that it has moved one of its plants 140 miles away

Chambers runs into Games brick wall

The sprinter's attempt to get an injunction against the BOA's bylaw banning him from the Bejing Olympics has failed

Twell gets in condition for Beijing

Stephanie Twell became world junior champion in 1,500 metres recently, then ran a personal best at the Golden League meeting

Ashling O'Connor: it's over for Chambers

The Times Olympic Correspondent on Mr Justice Mackay's decision to uphold BOA's by-law. She talks to Ben Smith

Chambers fails in bid to compete at Olympics

British sprinter has had his appeal for an injunction turned down at the High Court and may retire

BOA waits for Dwain Chambers Beijing ruling

High Court judge due to rule at 10.30am on whether sprinter can run at Olympics despite prior drugs ban