consecutive EuroHockey Championships title when this year’s event gets underway at the Lee Valley Hockey

play Italy.The EuroHockey Championships begins on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park tomorrow ©England Hockey

European hockey is so strong and the tournament will be of a really high standard - I think it’

England Hockey has announced that their teams’ shirts at the competition will carry the Hockey for Heroes

logo, a charity set up by two hockey players and former servicemen, Carl Woods and Gary Ryder.It aims

ChampionshipsJuly 2015: Dutch company Rabobank to partner 2015 EuroHockey ChampionshipsJune 2015: England Hockey

Indian city Raipur, located in the state of Chhattisgarh, will stage the 2015 men’s Hockey World League

Final, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced.

The eight teams, who booked their places through their performances at the Hockey World League Semi-Finals

in Buenos Aires and Antwerp, are now set to compete in the 3,000-capacity Raipur International Hockey

event, having opened as a dedicated hockey facility in August 2014.

at the Raipur stadium,” President of Hockey India Narinder Dhruv Batra said.

competition to a city that has shown a great desire to host international hockey tournaments.

silver medallists The Netherlands at the upcoming Unibet EuroHockey Championships at the Lee Valley Hockey

Championships providing a boost to the legacy of the Games.The event is the first to be held at the Lee Valley Hockey

Tennis Centre since the venue underwent a £30 million ($50 million/€37 million) revamp and England Hockey

event features Olympic gold medallists Germany and silver medallists The Netherlands ©Getty Images"Hockey

and this stadium expansion demonstrates that more and more people are realising what a great day out hockey

ChampionshipsJuly 2015: Dutch company Rabobank to partner 2015 EuroHockey ChampionshipsJune 2015: England Hockey

International demand for Rio 2016 tickets is exceeding current levels on sale, the head of one of the major authorised ticket resellers has told insidethegames, although plenty of tickets remain in certain events.

utilised ©Getty ImagesSome could also be transferred from domestic sales, particularly in sports, like hockey

Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete Tora Berger has been named among the 15 Athlete Role Models (ARMs) who will support those competing at the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in her home country Norway.

Shelley Rudman, Danish curler Rasmus Stjerne, Swiss figure skater Stéphane Lambiel and American ice hockey

of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission and an Olympic champion in ice hockey

Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic medal design competitionJune 2015: Norwegian snowboarder and ice hockey

player named as latest ambassadors for Lillehammer 2016May 2015: Lillehammer 2016 ice hockey individual

And so we come back to that age-old debate.

the country onto a completely different sporting level.Next to test these facilities is the sport of hockey

EuroHockey Championships come to the fore between August 21 and August 30 at the revamped Lee Valley Hockey

outfits that have recently secured their Rio 2016 berth after qualifying through the International Hockey

first-hand.The usually light-hearted Middleton, who poked fun at the lack of ties within the England Hockey

Championships finals day as both harbour realistic ambitions of taking home the gold.The Lee Valley Hockey

United States remain on target to finish top of the medals table at next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, according to a latest projection published with a year to go, with Britain expected to win just 10 golds and Brazil predicted to sneak into the top 10 with nine.

to continued Lottery Funding investment in high performance sport, they clai, with diving, fencing, hockey

London 2012 Olympic hockey bronze medallist Kate Richardson-Walsh admitted it was a “huge relief” for

, considered one of the favourites for the upcoming EuroHockey Championships, at the International Hockey

one for the event on home soil, the first major sporting competition to be staged at the Lee Valley Hockey

“The European Championships is a big tournament for us as there is a lot of strength in European hockey

“To keep up the interest in hockey in the country we have to win things so there is pressure but there

storiesJuly 2015: Dutch company Rabobank to partner 2015 EuroHockey ChampionshipsJune 2015: England Hockey

All eyes will be on Rio de Janeiro a year from now for the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the 31st Olympiad.

following Games, in Helsinki in 1952, a protester broke onto the infield to the amazement of British hockey

sensation to Vancouver’s organisers in 2010 when the part of the indoor cauldron failed to raise as ice hockey

British Sports Minister Tracey Crouch today launched a wide-ranging public consultation on sport in the United Kingdom amid growing concerns that the country is failing to live up to the legacy promise of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

A sport like hockey has seen a 40 per cent growth in participation among under 16s since 2012, yet this

Rio 2016's "Transforma" education programme, a key Olympic and Paralympic legacy of the Games, is being expanded around and beyond the host country following an online launch. 

allowing youngsters to take up new sports and learn more about how to live a healthy lifestyle.As well as hockey

International hockey players who are represented by the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) are set

city to decide their representatives.Four athletes were chosen to represent the views of current hockey

Neves currently serves as its secretary.Related storiesJuly 2015: Canada's men seal Rio 2016 Olympic hockey

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Evaluation Commission has recommended that the CGF General Assembly votes to award the South African city of Durban the 2022 Commonwealth Games next month, but their report, released today, outlined several areas requiring immediate attention.

Venue upgrades are due to take place at the Queensmead Hockey Stadium and the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Almost the first thing we saw was the Bird’s Nest Stadium; the second was an International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president; the third was a video from Xi Jinping, the Chinese President.

Ming.Presentation planners used the basketball icon’s colossal size - first glimpsed in the guise of an ice-hockey

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov today urged voting International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to make a brave choice rather than one which will make them sleep easier at night by voting for Almaty over Beijing in this afternoon's 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic host city vote.

the Evaluation Commission visit, the two venues - the Ice Palace which would serve as the main ice hockey