By Karolos Grohmann

LONDON (Reuters) - A dispute about campaigning delayed the admission of new athletes to the International Olympic Committee on Sunday.

By Kate Holton

DORNEY, England (Reuters) - Of all the images from the Olympic rowing regatta, the ones that may last the longest come from those athletes desperately trying to come to terms with their sense of loss at winning silver.

By Karolos Grohmann

LONDON (Reuters) - Frenchman Tony Estanguet, who won a third Olympic canoeing gold medal at the London Games, and Zimbabwe swimmer Kirsty Coventry will become International Olympic Committee members after being elected onto the athletes' commission on Saturday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy on Saturday celebrated the way in which Britons had embraced the Olympic Games, eulogised their gold medallists and attacked bankers for "filching our gold, our silver".

Duffy's poem, "Translating the British, 2012", appeared on the front page of the Guardian newspaper, next to a photograph of Somali-born British 10,000 metre champion Mo Farah.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Olympic athletes will miss their target of winning 86 medals by some way, an interior ministry paper showed on Friday, but a senior sports official said there was not necessarily a link between medals won and public funding.

After 14 days of competition, the Germans have managed to win 38 medals - 10 gold, 17 silver and 11 bronze - enough to secure them sixth place as of Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Leander, the British rowing club whose members have won more medals than many countries over the years, took their tally to 111 at the London Games and are now looking forward to a Brazilian bonanza in 2016.

The club, whose mascot is a pink hippopotamus, started London 2012 wondering which of their number would win the 100th medal after reaching 99 in Beijing.

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - When a rower is helped from his boat after a race robs him of the ability to walk, and a triathlete is put on an intravenous drip after winning bronze then collapsing, people wonder if being an Olympic athlete is good for your health.

By Paul Casciato

LONDON (Reuters) - London 2012 may forever change the image of the northern English county of Yorkshire from a rural idyll long past the glory of its Industrial Revolution heyday into an Olympic field of gold.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German rower who quit the Olympic village last week has denied having far-right views and has said she helped to persuade her boyfriend to change his ways months ago.

German media had reported that Nadja Drygalla was suspected of far right-wing sympathies and that her boyfriend Michael Fischer, who stood in a regional election for the far-right NPD party in 2011, was a leading member of the "Rostock National Socialists".

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - The tale of British tennis player Andy Murray's Wimbledon despair turning to Olympic joy shows the sheer power of the psychological advantage that a supportive home crowd and a gold medal-winning streak by your national team can give.

By Alan Baldwin

LONDON (Reuters) - In the Olympic village, the evolution of the species happens overnight.

By Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - The tale of British tennis player Andrew Murray's Wimbledon despair turning to Olympic joy shows the sheer power of the psychological advantage that a supportive home crowd and a gold medal-winning streak by your national team can give.

By Alan Baldwin

LONDON (Reuters) - Jessica Ennis, teary but euphoric in victory, became Britain's face of the Games on Sunday as sporting fever swept a proud host nation basking in its greatest Olympic day in more than a century.

By Karolos Grohmann

LONDON (Reuters) - Doping moved back into the spotlight at the London Olympics on Saturday with at least four more confirmed positive cases and a string of high-profile doping offenders returning to the world's biggest sports stage in search of restitution.

By Kate Holton

DORNEY, England (Reuters) - As things stands, if the British rowing squad formed their own country they would lie eighth in the overall London 2012 Olympic medals table, behind Italy but ahead of North Korea and Russia.

By Karolos Grohmann

LONDON (Reuters) - Doping moved back into the spotlight at the London Olympics on Saturday with at least two more confirmed positive cases and a string of high-profile doping offenders returning to the world's biggest sports stage in search of restitution.