The Bid Team assembled by the World Squash Federation to direct its campaign to have Squash added to the Olympic Games programme for 2016 met in London this week - and fine-tuned the comprehensive questionnaire which the IOC has requested that all seven sports seeking inclusion should complete by mid-February.

The meeting, chaired by WSF Company Secretary George Mieras, with Vice President Chris Stahl, also featured a number of the sport's leading athletes led by former world number ones Peter Nicol MBE and Lee Beachill, from England, and Natalie Grainger of the USA.

"We are close to providing the detail that the IOC requires about Squash and its status in world sport," said Stahl.  "Having input from some of the leading stars of our game over the past decade has been invaluable."

The sport, which narrowly failed to achieve inclusion to the 2012 programme at the IOC meeting in Singapore in 2005, is preparing a major programme of activities leading up to the decision date in October when the 121st IOC Session takes place in Denmark