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Durban 2022 Commonwealth Games bid recommended by Evaluation Commission but guarantees sought over finances and venues

  • Birmingham 2022

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


Beijing urges IOC to put head over heart in 2022 Winter Olympic race

  • Beijing 2022

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


Almaty 2022 urge IOC to prefer innovation over a bid that makes them "sleep easiest at night"

  • Beijing 2022

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



Brazil win overtime thriller in handball on night of relay drama at Toronto 2015

  • Toronto 2015

Brazil held their nerve to claim a thrilling overtime victory over Argentina here tonight on a frenetic final evening of Pan American Games sporting action otherwise headlined by two incident-packed men's relays on the athletics track.

Veyre.There was a defeat, however, to Brazil in the men's basketball final and to Argentina in the men's hockey


De Grasse completes men's sprint double by sealing Pan American Games 200m gold

  • Toronto 2015

Canada's Andre De Grasse completed the men's sprint double at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games as the 20-year-old secured the 200 metres title here today to add to the 100m gold he won two days ago at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletics Stadium.

adrift in silver after posting 16.99m.The United States beat Argentina 2-1 to defend their women's hockey

States, by beating them in the men's final.However the United States were able to celebrate women's hockey


Canada's men seal Rio 2016 Olympic hockey qualification along with US and New Zealand women

  • Hockey

Canada have become the latest men's hockey team to secure a Rio 2016 Olympic qualification slot, while

securing a top-six finish earlier at these Games, with this the criteria stipulated by the International Hockey

beneficiaries, having been selected instead after being the next highest ranked placed team at the Hockey

Related storiesJuly 2015: Brazil win shootout to secure men's hockey qualification for Rio 2016July 2015

: Australia claim last-gasp final victory over hosts Belgium at Hockey World League Semi-FinalJune 2015

: Germany win Hockey World League semi-final event with comfortable win over hosts ArgentinaJuly 2014


Brazil win shootout to secure men's hockey qualification for Rio 2016

  • Hockey

Brazil's men's hockey team have secured a place at next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in dramatic

Hockey, a sport in which Brazil have little international pedigree and have never competed at the Olympics

medal.They will join six other teams who have already secured Rio 2016 qualification at the recent Hockey

men's team.Related storiesJuly 2015: Australia claim last-gasp final victory over hosts Belgium at Hockey

World League Semi-FinalJune 2015: Germany win Hockey World League semi-final event with comfortable


Dutch company Rabobank to partner 2015 EuroHockey Championships

  • Hockey

England Hockey and the European Hockey Federation (EHF) have announced Dutch financial services company

Rabobank have a strong involvement with the sport having been the title sponsor of last year’s Hockey

“Rabobank has been the number one commercial supporter of Dutch hockey and it is fitting that they will

“I am happy that Rabobank will join England Hockey and ourselves in the Unibet EuroHockey Championships

women's titles at the 2015 EuroHockey Championships ©Getty ImagesThe announcement comes after England Hockey

opted to expand the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, a venue that was used for the 2012 Olympic


Pyeongchang 2018 promise to organise "economic" Olympic Games

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Pyeongchang 2018 President Cho Yang-ho has promised that the event will not waste "precious taxpayers' money" as he pledged to run a fiscally responsible Winter Olympics and Paralympics. 

Coastal city Gangneung is due to be used for the figure skating, curling, ice hockey, speed and short-track


Commonwealth Games England appoint new Board members to represent athletes and Para-sports in build-up to Gold Coast 2018

  • Gold Coast 2018

Commonwealth Games England (CGE) have announced they have appointed Alex Danson and Dawn Newbery to its Board to help the team prepare for Gold Coast 2018. 

Paralympic sport to Commonwealth Games England’s first-class operation.”Alex Danson was part of the hockey

first time since Edinburgh 1986 ©Getty ImagesDanson has been a member of the England and Britain's hockey

since her England debut in 2001, when she was 16.Widely regarded as one of England’s leading female hockey


Australian Olympic Committe represented in Indigenous Marathon Project Deadly Fun Run Championships

  • ONOC

The Australian Olympic Committee was represented by five Olympians in the 2015 Indigenous Marathon Project's Deadly Fun Run Championships in Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, to mark 30 years since the world-famous landmark was given back to its original owners.

indigenous quintet, including Beijing 2008 Olympic Games kayak bronze medallist Hannah Davis and Olympic hockey

Australian people, using running as a method to help develop sport among their communities.Beijing 2008 hockey



Papua New Guinea top Pacific Games medal table as Port Moresby 2015 comes to a close

  • Port Moresby 2015 News

Papua New Guinea finished top of the Pacific Games medals table for only the second time in the their history as their athletes produced another excellent performance here on the final day of competition at Port Moresby 2015.

Guinea in three sets.Fiji also performed well on the final day of Port Moresby 2015, sweeping the hockey

since Suva 1979.Fiji’s women were equally dominant, beating Papua New Guinea 10-4.As well as their hockey

tag in the netball event, beating Papua New Guinea 68-51.Fiji's women claimed the gold medals in the hockey


Philip Barker: The debt owed by London 2012 to Birmingham

  • Inside the Blogs

Last week in a hotel overlooking London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Dame Tessa Jowell joined volunteers to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the day London was chosen as Olympic hosts for 2012.

idea was seen at an Olympic Park which staged athletics, aquatics , track and bmx cycling, handball, hockey