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Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Former athletes and sports administrators have warned that young prospects are at risk of burnout from the pressure placed on them in the run-up to the London 2012 Games.

England chief denies claims country will pull out of 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi over terror fears By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:36 AM on 30th December 2009 England bosses have denied they are to pull out of next year's Commonwealth Games in India over fears athletes may be a target for terrorist attacks.

We catch up with the progress made by our dozen young competitors dreaming of glory in the London Games Francesca Halsall celebrates silver in the women's 100m freestyle final at the World Championships in Rome last July.

INJURY ended Sheffield diver Leon Taylor's successful Olympic career when doctors said there was little they could do for him.

Trooper Joshua Hammond, 18, from Plymstock, was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan while travelling in a Viking vehicle across Helmand Province.

World champion diver Tom Daley will miss the Commonwealth Games if England pulls out.

AP'S THE REAL McCOY Andrew Strauss took in the heady scenes as champagne corks popped all around The Oval.

Argleton was first noticed on Google Maps in September 2008. The others, probably inserted as pranks, appeared on the official 1978-79 state map of Michigan 6. Vincent van Gogh 7. Ugg boots 8. The first upload on to YouTube, by co-founder Jawed Karim, which features him at the elephant house at San Diego zoo 9. Pop Idol 10.

In the red: Harlequins' Tom Williams is led from the field in an incident that led to the 'bloodgate' scandal From Jan 1 a new World Anti-Doping Agency Code forced elite sportspeople to provide testers with a one-hour whereabouts daily window.

As part of a series of interviews with the year's leading lights, Tom Daley tells Nick Harris about school bullies, his embarrassing father, and the dive that made him Britain's youngest world champion in an Olympic sport 'I just didn't know what do - whether to be sick, laugh or cry,' says Tom Daley about the moment when he won the 10m gold medal ...

OLYMPIC heroes past and present will make special appearances at a gala reopening weekend at the Dolphin Swimming Pool in January.

And the Sports Personality of the Year is ... 9:54am Friday 11th December 2009 By Scott Wilson THE great and good of the sporting world descend on Sheffield this weekend for the BBCa TMs annual Sports Personality of the Year awards.

By Martin Smith IT WAS a perfect Sheffield night. Almost. The mostly South Yorkshire crowd was superb, the venue looked magnificent and the world's top sports stars were queuing up to say how much they loved being in the city.

DIVER Tom Daley was last night crowned BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

The Manchester United star said: "That is a big shock. Lots of my heroes are here, people like Seb Coe.

Diving sensation Tom Daley has been involved in a high-speed car drama. The 15-year-old world champion was travelling to Sheffield for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards when the offside rear tyre burst.

IT IS the sort of gruelling examination a seasoned athlete would find hard to cope with, let alone a schoolboy.

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Tom Daley's diving coach is being tipped for a top award of his own, as a frontrunner in tonight's UK Coach of the Year.

SCHOOLBOY diver Tom Daley has sweet-talked Kate Moss into helping with his homework.