The 2012 men's and women's world champions are Chris Hoy of the United Kingdom and Anna Meares of Australia.

* Śląsk Wrocław — men's football team ( Polish Championship in Football 1977, 2012 ; Polish Cup winner 1976, 1987 ; Polish SuperCup winner 1987, 2012 ; Polish League Cup winner 2009 ) ( Now in Ekstraklasa ( Polish Premier League ).

In 2012, the West Virginia Mountaineers joined the Florida Atlantic Owls and Hartwick College Hawks as men's soccer affiliates.

On 9 August 2012 the band performed at the men's final of the beach volleyball at the London Olympics.

Tim Miles was hired on March 24, 2012 as the next head men's basketball coach at Nebraska.

The school's most successful athletic program is its men's golf team, Oglethorpe won the national NCAA title in 2009 and 2012.

The participation of UK men's and women's sides at the 2012 Olympic tournament was a bone of contention between the four national associations in the UK from 2005, when the Games were awarded to London, to 2009.

UNBC will begin play in men's and women's soccer and basketball in September 2012 ".

The men's Raven's basketball team has won the national championship eight times between 2002 and 2012 with five consecutive titles ( between 2002 – 03 and 2006 – 07 ) and are tied with the University of Victoria on the all-time list and second to them for the most consecutive national championships.

North Central defended its titles in men's indoor track & field and outdoor track & field in the spring of 2011 while the Cardinals won their second men's cross country title in three seasons in the fall of 2011 and their third-straight indoor track & field title in 2012.

The Serpentine provided a focal point for The Great Exhibition of 1851, and more recently was a venue for the men's and women's triathlon and marathon swimming events in the London 2012 Olympics.

, the national handball team are the current reigning European champions and the team with most medals won in European championship history on the men's side with a total of five medals, those being two gold medals ( 2008, 2012 ), and three bronze medals ( 2002, 2004 & 2006 ).

The university boasts of numerous national championships, with its latest coming in 2012 when the men's basketball team won its eighth national title.

* Isaiah Canaan, current point guard for the men's basketball team and 2012 All-American

Horace Grant's other nephews through Harvey include Jerian, a sophomore for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team, and Jerami, who has committed to play for the Syracuse University Orange men's basketball team in 2012 – 13.

In 2012, the men's basketball team was ranked number 1 and made it to the round of 16 where there they were knocked out by Metropolitan State.

As of April 2012, current head coaches from the baseball, women ’ s golf, women ’ s gymnastics, men's soccer, women's soccer and women's swimming and diving programs had all received conference “ Coach of the Year ” honors.

Mustangs men's team in 2012 playoffs vs. Windsor Lancers.

Since 2000 the Cardinals have made appearances in the men's basketball Final Four in 2005 and 2012, football Bowl Championship Series Orange Bowl in 2007 ( champions ), the College Baseball World Series, the women's basketball Final Four in 2009 ( runner-up ), and the men's soccer national championship game in 2010.

The 2012 men's championship marked the 75th edition of what has been tabbed College Basketball ’ s Toughest Tournament.

DeWitt Township is the home of gymnast Jordyn Wieber, who was part of the gold medal winning women's gymnastics team at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

The very next day, Katie Taylor won a gold Medal for Ireland in the 2012 Summer Olympics, which included women's boxing for the first time in history.

On April 11, 2012, during an appearance on CNN, Rosen criticized Mitt Romney for using his wife as an adviser on women's issues, stating that Ann Romney " has never worked a day in her life.

In its 63rd season in 2012, The LPGA is the oldest continuing women's professional sports organization in the United States.

The women's national team has also had the distinction of winning two Women's World Cups in 1991 and 1999 ( placing third in 1995, 2003, and 2007 ); the Olympic Gold Medal in 1996, 2004, 2008, and 2012 ; and seven Algarve Cups and six CONCACAF Women's Gold Cups.

The most recent attempt at a fully professional women's soccer league in the U. S., Women's Professional Soccer, first suspended its planned 2012 season and then folded completely in May of that year.

The women's 1st VIII finished 4th in Lent Bumps 2012 and 9th in May Bumps 2012.

Their women's teams have also won team medals at every Olympics from 1976 to 2012 inclusive, including 3 victories in 1984, 2000, and 2004.

Illinois Wesleyan won the conference's second women's basketball national title in 2012.

The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram ( ILR Press / Cornell University Press ; 2012 ) 128 pages ; History of controversies over mammography since 1970s ; focus on the women's movement and breast-cancer activism.

Washington and Lee will be adding a women's golf team in 2012.

In April 2012, the NCAA concluded that " major violations " had occurred, and that all 13 varsity athletic teams would be on probation until April 2016, that the women's basketball team would be banned from post-season play in 2013.

" The IAAF Congress at 2011 World Championships in Athletics passed a motion changing the record eligibility criteria effective January, 2012, so that women's world records must be set in all-women competitions.

Similarly, special sets of stamps were, and will continue to be, introduced for all British 2012 Olympic Gold Medal athletes, the first being for rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, who won the women's coxless pair.

On 26 June 2012, Sania Mirza was awarded a wild card entry hence confirming her participation in women's doubles event of the London Olympics.

The most recent appearance of the women's team in the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship was in 2012, when it was eliminated 41-70 in the first round by the Miami Hurricanes.

* 2012 – Chuck Share, American basketball player ( b. 1927 )

* 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player ( b. 1936 )

* 1953 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball player ( d. 2012 )

* 1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player ( d. 2012 )

* 1933 – Ed Conlin, American basketball player and coach ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Ed Conlin, American basketball player and coach ( b. 1933 )

Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.

During the 2012 Summer Olympics, the artistic gymnastics events, along with the medal rounds of basketball, were held at The O2.

According to a 2012 Forbes Magazine report, they are the fourth-most valuable basketball franchise in the United States, valued at approximately $ 497 million ; the franchise is surpassed in value only by the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls.

This divisional format remained in place for football and baseball until the 2012 football season ; the divisions have been eliminated for basketball.

* Dederick Lee, who led Clarksville to back to back championships in the Class 4A boys state basketball title last year ( 2011 ) and this year ( 2012 ), has orally committed to play for coach Mike Anderson and the University of Arkansas Razorbacks.

In recent years, the high school boys ' basketball team has reached the 1A state tournament three times, placing second in 2009, third in 2011, and winning the Illinois High School Association Class 1A Championship in 2012.

From 2010 to 2012, filmmakers Davy Rothbart and Andrew Cohn followed the Medora Hornets high-school basketball team for a forthcoming documentary, Medora.

Tri-Central's other notable information / achievements are: High Ability / honors instruction at all grade levels, 2012 Tri-Central High School seniors received in excess of $ 750, 000 in awards and scholar-ships, senior trip to Washington D. C. and New York City, musical productions by the school's elite choir, and instrumental performances by the schools state recognized gold rating marching band, and concert band, 8 AP classes with many students scoring 3 and above on AP exams — 10 % more than last year — ranked 13th in the state, state recognition for percentage of students enrolled in AP classes — only 35 schools recognized, state recognized academic team, Dual Credit courses as well as access to many on-line courses, 11 school-wide computer labs and 4 student computers in each elementary classroom, elementary athletic opportunities in youth soccer, cheerleading, football, basketball, and wrestling, Elementary music, art, computer technology and physical education classes each week, Accelerated reading K-12 and operation Drop Everything And Read in the secondary, and this reading program is year-round for the middle and high school.

A University of Kentucky basketball jersey placed on the World War I memorial statue in Harlan in celebration of the college's eighth basketball national title ( April 3, 2012 )

In 2006 and 2008 the Harrisburg boys basketball team won the Missouri Class 2A state championship, then in 2010 and 2012 Harrisburg won the Missouri Class 2A girls basketball state championship.

* In 2012 Billings High School won the Missouri Class 2A boys basketball state championship ..

Charleston High School has won 11 state boys basketball championships, the most recent being in 2012.

* In 2012 Eminence High School won the Missouri Class 1A girls basketball state championship.

* The Mount Vernon High School " Lady Mountaineers " won the Missouri Class 3A girls basketball state championship in 2012.

* Herb Scherer ( 1929 – 2012 ), professional basketball player for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and New York Knicks.

Both the Boys basketball, and the girls basketball made it to state in 2012, and the track team has made it to state pretty much every year.