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Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day 10 of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

More finals in beach volleyball, hockey 5s and football.

"While the hockey felt like a fierce battleground where two teams were locked in a duel to the death,

Gold for China in hockey 5s21:30 Controversy in the shootout.

They lead Venezuela 5-0 at half time. 21:20 Into a shootout in the hockey..."

Argentina have won hockey 5s bronze. They defeat Japan, 5-2.


Underdogs have eye of the tiger at World Judo Championships

  • Judo

By Duncan Mackay at the Traktor Sport Arena in ChelyabinskA live Siberian tiger was the highlight of a spectacular Opening Ceremony of the World Judo Championships here this afternoon but history will ultimately record that it was the day of the underdog. 

million - in the colours of the Championships.The 7,000 capacity stadium, usually home to local ice hockey


South Korea and Slovenia claim handball titles on ninth day of Nanjing 2014

  • Nanjing 2014

By Nick Butler at the Main Media Centre in NanjingSouth Korea and Slovenia took the respective male and female handball titles at the Summer Youth Olympic Games here this evening after emerging on top in two fast-paced and exciting finals.

, continue the host nation's bid for a clean sweep in the sport.Elsewhere, Australia set up a men's hockey


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day nine of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

as well as medals action in football, boxing, wrestling, modern pentathlon, archery, 3x3 basketball, hockey

Overcoming adversity in the same style as a famous namesake did throughout his career. 21:08 A close hockey

this time around. 17:32 Wins for Germany and Pakistan over Zambia and Bangladesh so far in the two hockey

We are into a decider...15:28 Hockey 5's action will be getting underway in half and hour or so.

looks like a a familiar face has joined them to celebrate...10:50 An update from the International Hockey


Chelyabinsk meteor to feature on medals as city prepares for sold-out World Judo Championships

  • Judo

By Duncan Mackay at the Grand Hotel Vidgof in ChelyabinskWinners at this year's World Judo Championships, due to start here tomorrow, will receive a medal decorated with the Chelyabinsk meteor.

new state-of-the-art $75 million (£45 million/€57 million) Traktor Sport Arena, home of the local ice hockey

team who play in the Kontinental Hockey League.Such is the interest in the event that a fan park has


The story of Rosemary Mula - the most dedicated volunteer in the world

  • The Big Read

The gold and silver medallists in the triple jump at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne both left their mark, in their own way, in sporting history.In the second round there was a huge shock when Vilhjálmur Einarsson broke the Olympic record with a leap of 16.26 metres. His lead lasted only two rounds but Einarsson, in finishing second, became Iceland's first medallist and was thereafter known as "the silver man". He was so popular for his achievement that he was five times voted Iceland's sportsperson of the year. He later became a headmaster and a talented landscape artist.The Brazilian...

She was working in field hockey and she had never even heard of the sport.


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day eight of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

number 52 against 72, followed by 46 against 57.12:27 An update ahead of the girl's semi-finals in hockey

The four time Olympic ice hockey medallist from the United States is also the Head of the Coordination


Exclusive: Baumann "very confident and very relaxed" on Lausanne's bid to host 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games

  • Youth Olympics

By Paul Osborne at the Main Media Centre in NanjingLausanne will bring together more than 100 years of history if its campaign to host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games is successful, Patrick Baumann, chair of the bid and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has promised.  

This "where there is need" includes a new ice rink, being built because there "is a very strong ice hockey



London 2015 EuroHockey Championships one-year countdown begins

  • Hockey

By Emily GoddardThe final countdown to the London 2015 EuroHockey Championships has begun with exactly a year to go until the competition gets underway.

teams from across the continent, including both England teams, is due to take place at the Lee Valley Hockey

is scheduled for August 21 to 30 next year, the area surrounding the park will be transformed into a Hockey

We're very excited about the EuroHockey Championships 2015 and the positive impact it will have for hockey

at London Olympic ParkDecember 2013: England Hockey reveals strategy to become "a nation where hockey

matters"March 2012: England to host 2015 European Hockey Championships at Olympic Park



Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day four of competition

  • Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games Live Blogs

feel free to correct me if I am, then that is quite some way shy of the world record in international hockey

Guatemala, and Maria Gabriela Brugal of Dominican Republic. 16:58 There have been some meaty contests in hockey


Summer Youth Olympic Games: Day three of competition

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The final begins at 11:00.10:16 Another innovative sport being showcased here in Nanjing is hockey 5s

Zealand but it wasn't enough to deny the Blacksticks victory.Meanwhile, the world's top two women's hockey

took the top of the table in the men's Pool A.New Zealand and Mexico concluded today's action at the hockey

Kiwis storming to an 8-1 win that sees them sit atop Pool B at the end of today.- The International Hockey

Federation update us on the second day of hockey 5s action.10:04 Aruba, in case you are wondering, is