Plans to attract countries visiting Australia to take part in the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast are beginning to be drawn up by ambitious local councils.

Centre is underwayIt is set to include reconstruction of a new athletics track and field, as well as a hockey

“Further works are also under way to build a world-class synthetic hockey pitch and we are negotiating

of upgrading other facilities within the complex as we move toward the Games.”Warwick is hopeful a hockey

After having the Australian men's hockey squad in Warwick for a camp before the 2000 Sydney Olympics,

"Our London blue hockey surface in Warwick is equal to the best in the world."

Lidewij Welten have been named the respective men’s and women’s players of the year at the International Hockey

August.His compatriot Welten continued to contribute to The Netherlands' success in women’s international hockey

in a year which saw the country win the Hockey World League semi-final, finish runners-up at the EuroHockey

Championships and come fifth at the Hockey World League Final in Rosario, Argentina.

The Netherlands made it a hat-trick of Hockey Star 2015 award wins as Joyce Sombroek picked up the

The ambition of the Hockey Revolution, our ten-year strategy for hockey, is to make it a global game

A total of 17 athletes have been selected to represent Australia at the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games.

expressed his delight at leading a team into Lillehammer ©Getty ImagesThe team is completed by ice hockey

Olympic modern penathlon champion Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė and International Cycling Union (UCI) World Road Race Championships bronze medallist Ramūnas Navardauskas have scooped the top prizes at the Lithuanian Athletes Awards 2015.

rowing duo Milda Valčiukaitė and Donata Vištartaitė won the respective team awards, while the blind hockey

The Belgian Olympic Committee (BOC) has selected nine athletes for the Winter Youth Olympic Games which will be held in Lillehammer next month.

and Manon Suffys.Completing the team is Chinook Van Calster, who will compete in the individual ice hockey

Belgian star Joachim Gerard has won the final International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month prize of 2015 after scooping the December award following his victory at the season-ending NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters.

the votes for the IPC Athlete of the Month award to beat off competition from Canadian ice sledge hockey

Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships, as he received 16 per cent.Canadian sledge hockey

Vancouver 2010 figure skating gold medallist Yuna Kim will serve as an athlete ambassador for the second successive Winter Youth Olympic Games at Lillehammer 2016, it has been announced.

has become the fifth ambassador for Lillehammer 2016.Norwegian Snowboarder Silje Norendal and ice hockey

International Hockey Federation (FIH) President Leandro Negre has confirmed he will stand for a third

Hockey was a success at London 2012 but its place on the Olympic programme came under threat the following

“We have achieved a lot of things and I think the world hockey family is happy with our staff and how

Plans have been unveiled for the redevelopment of the Gold Coast Hockey Centre in time for the 2018 Commonwealth

Association and Labrador Hockey Club. 

"The original Games bid only included upgrade works to the hockey pitches but these plans now include

“This improved design will benefit the sport of hockey on the Gold Coast and help attract major competitions

will also be able to enjoy the new facility more than a year out from the Games.”The new Gold Coast Hockey

“This is an incredible chance to provide young and aspiring hockey players with the opportunity to train

Lucerne have presented their plans for the 2021 Winter Universiade and appear set to become the first Swiss city to host the event for 59 years as they are the only bidder.

biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, freestyle snowboarding,ice hockey

IOS Sports & Entertainment has been appointed the sole marketing partner of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in a two-year deal designed to generate sponsorship revenue for Rio 2016 as well as other major events.

also worked as an exclusive agency for Indian Super League football team Delhi Dynamos as well as with Hockey

Federation, appears secure in his position after beating off an opposition movement last year led by Hockey

They are Olympians at opposite ends of the spectrum but the stories of Jesse Owens and Eddie "The Eagle"  Edwards will both hit cinema screens later this year.

It tells the story of the 1980 American Olympic ice hockey team which upset the odds by beating the

A series of workshops and grants for equipment will be delivered by the Agitos Foundation and Pyeongchang 2018 organisers as part of the legacy of the next Paralympic Winter Games, it has been announced.

six Paralympic disciplines of Alpine skiing, snowboard, cross-country skiing, biathlon, ice sledge hockey

An ice sledge hockey training camp  is planned for Novi Sad in Serbia, between February 21 and 26, featuring

Canada’s Lonnie Bissonnette increased his lead in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) Para-bobsleigh World Cup to 78 points after claiming victory in Igls in Austria.

sports on the programme for Pyeongchang 2018 - Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey

Canadian-born ice hockey players Matt Dalton and Eric Regan look set to become a part of the South Korean

Korean Government for “special naturalisation”, according to Yonhap News.Dalton signed for National Hockey

Hannover Scorpions before signing for Japan's Nippon Paper Cranes, who play in the Asian League Ice Hockey

South Korean national side ahead of Pyeongchang 2018, where they will make their Winter Olympic ice hockey

debut as host nation.Ice hockey events at Pyeongchang 2018 will be held at the Gangneung Hockey Centre

and at the Kwandong Hockey Centre.Although they have never competed at the Olympics, South Korea have