Spain secured a last-eight spot at the Hockey World League semi-final event in Buenos Aires, beating

Related storiesJune 2015: Olympic champions and hosts both maintain 100 per cent record at Hockey World

League semi-finalJune 2015:Olympic champions off to winning start at Hockey World League semi-finalJune

2015: Hosts Argentina begin Hockey World League semi-final event with comfortable win over AustriaMarch

2015: Hockey World League semi-final line-ups confirmed as race for Rio 2016 qualification heats upMarch

2015: Home nation Ireland claim Hockey World League Round 2 title

Olympic champions Germany booked their place in the last eight of the Hockey World League semi-final

available berth in the last eight.Related storiesJune 2015: Olympic champions off to winning start at Hockey

World League semi-finalJune 2015: Hosts Argentina begin Hockey World League semi-final event with comfortable

win over AustriaMarch 2015: Hockey World League semi-final line-ups confirmed as race for Rio 2016 qualification

heats upMarch 2015: Home nation Ireland claim Hockey World League Round 2 title March 2015: Hosts Ireland

to face Canada in Dublin Hockey World League 2 final

Sailing and 7-a-side football’s faint hopes of being included on the Tokyo 2020 programme appear to have been ended after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board confirmed their exclusion at a meeting in the Japanese capital, which concluded today.

programmes for the remaining sports of Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey

Olympic champions Germany got their Hockey World League semi-final campaign off to a winning start with

match out to secure their second straight win.Related storiesJune 2015: Hosts Argentina begin Hockey

World League semi-final event with comfortable win over AustriaMarch 2015: Hockey World League

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World League Round 2 title March 2015: Hosts Ireland to face Canada in Dublin Hockey World

League 2 finalMarch 2015: Hosts India seal women's Hockey World League semi-final spot as France

At any major multi-sport event, the Athletes’ Village invariably provides the heartbeat.

grab-and-go cafés free to all residents.The super recreation centres also allow for athletes to play air hockey

A thrilling two-hour Opening Ceremony in Singapore’s National Stadium saw the 28th edition of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games get underway today.

performance concluded with the reveal of more of Singapore’s former and current sporting heroes, with SEA hockey

The Brunei Darussalam National Olympic Council (BDNOC) have pulled out of hosting the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, it has been announced.

also announced that two winter sports have been added to the programme for the first time, with ice hockey

Host nation Argentina surged to the top of Pool B at the men’s Hockey World League semi-final event

at the tournament when they entertain Egypt, and Japan play New Zealand.Related storiesMarch 2015: Hockey

line-ups confirmed as race for Rio 2016 qualification heats upMarch 2015: Home nation Ireland claim Hockey

World League Round 2 title March 2015: Hosts Ireland to face Canada in Dublin Hockey World League 2

finalMarch 2015: Hosts India seal women's Hockey World League semi-final spot as France claim men's honoursMarch

2015: Surprise package China reach final at Hockey World League Round 2 event

Gert Van LooyChef de Mission, Belgium

I would like to see more athletics and hockey as well. 8) How interested do you think the public in

The International Academy of Sport Science and Technology (AISTS) are welcoming applications from current and former professional athletes for their Athlete Scholarship, to help in their dual and post-sport careers.

roles.Previous winners of the AISTS Athlete Scholarship have included the former captain Ireland’s women’s hockey

Italian T42 sprinter Martina Caironi is among the nominees for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Allianz Athlete of the Month following a stunning performance at the recent IPC Athletics Grand Prix meeting in Nottwil, Switzerland.

been nominated following a record-breaking performance in Nottwil ©Getty ImagesAmerican ice sledge hockey

star Josh Pauls, integral to his side’s world title winning success at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

The Association of International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIOWF) and Association of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF) have suspended their memberships with SportAccord.

four non-Olympic sports, it has now joined the exodus.Athletics, shooting, archery, canoeing, boxing, hockey

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President N Ramachandran has hit back at the various State Olympic Associations (SOA) and National Federations calling for him to be replaced, accusing them of launching “a deliberate smear campaign”.

the number of IOA Executive Board members to 21 and would try to form new election guidelines.The Hockey

has been reported that Federations representing badminton, basketball, bowling, fencing, handball, hockey

, ice hockey, ice skating, modern pentathlon and rugby union have all supported the move to remove Ramachandran.The

in Lillehammer is due to take place in Vierumaki, Finland, from July 5 to 10, the International Ice Hockey

athletes take on a range of individual skills challenges at the Games next year.It will feature ice hockey

began in October, with 39 countries hosting a range of qualification events.The individual skills ice hockey

virtue of their nation being the host of next year’s Games.The skills challenge, an innovative ice hockey

Games in Innsbruck.It allowed countries who don not usually feature in the team men’s and women’s ice hockey

with the event itself running between the same dates.Related storiesJanuary 2012: Tom Degun: Ice hockey

Jeroen BijlChef de Mission, The Netherlands

But for us, big Olympic sports like equestrian, rowing, hockey; it would be nice for us to have them