By Nick ButlerBotswana's former world 400 metres champion Amantle Montsho remains suspended from competition pending the results of her B-sample following her positive doping test at the Commonwealth Games, and will miss the African Athletics Championships starting today.

supplement.Three athletes tested positive for it at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics earlier this year: Latvian ice hockey

By Nick ButlerUnited States President Barack Obama lent his support via an unexpected video message as Gay Games 9 got underway with an Opening Ceremony at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio.

Sochi was led by three openly gay athletes, former tennis player Billie Jean King, two-time Olympic ice hockey

A friend of mine who is a field hockey official came along and he just gushed about it.

By Gary AndersonSwimming Australia President John Bertrand has praised the behaviour of the country's team at Glasgow 2014 citing the changes put in place after a controversial London 2012 Olympic campaign as a major factor in the team's success at the Commonwealth Games.

their new high performance director and Dutchman Jacco Verhaeren as the country's new head coach.Former Hockey

By Emily GoddardThe Sapporo Asian Winter Games will take place between February 19 and 26, 2017, the Olympic Council of Asia has announced.

skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, speed skating, figure skating, short track speed skating, ice hockey

Olympics, such as the Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium, while the Tsukisamu Gymnasium, which will hold the ice hockey

By Zjan ShirinianThe Chef de Mission of Australia's Olympic squad has named six more team leaders for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, headed by golf Major winner Ian Baker-Finch.

sixth team leader for Rio 2016 unveiled today is Trish Heberle, who will support the men's and women's hockey

teams.A World Cup bronze medallist who narrowly missed out on a hockey medal at the Los Angeles 1984

Olympics, Heberle overseas the women's and men's national high performance hockey programmes, the junior

start-line because you never know what is going to happen.The following day I found myself at the women's hockey

By Gary AndersonBritish Olympic sprint gold medallists Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Jason Gardner and Mark Lewis-Francis will help launch the Join In Summer Relay in Battersea, London tomorrow, which will see other elite stars take part in volunteering programmes across the country.

2013: Olympic Park to host special event for London 2012 volunteers one year onMarch 2013: England Hockey

On a sporting note, my highlight was the women's hockey final, another compelling chapter in one of sports

- Olympic and Commonwealth Games historian Philip Barker on his highlights of the Games.New Zealand hockey

Couzins has played 318 test caps for the country, the second most capped men's hockey player in the country's

- Scottish men's hockey player Chris Nelson reflecting most people's mood today.11:34 A peak television

Trinidad and Tobago thoroughly embraced the "Friendly Games" in team sports, such as rugby sevens and hockey

By Nick Butler at the Main Press Centre in Glasgow"Stern action" is being threatened by the Indian Government against Indian Olympic Association (IOA) general secretary Rajeev Mehta after he was arrested here last night for allegedly driving without a licence and above the legal alcohol limit.

the President of the Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI), Mehta is also associate vice-president of Hockey

More on the Flagbearers20:34 Another hockey player to be given the honour of carrying their country's

Just 30 minutes to go now....Flagbearer news20:25 England's flag bearer will be women's hockey captain

dampened anyone's spirits, although it made life distinctly unpleasant for the road racers and the Hockey

By Gary Anderson at the Glasgow National Hockey CentreA magnificent display of shooting from Chris Ciriello

helped Australia secure a fifth consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal in men's hockey as they overcame

The win completes a third straight men's and women's hockey double for Australia at the Commonwealth

Games while Ciriello scored a hat-trick for a second major final in-a-row after Australia's win in the Hockey

The all-conquering Australians remain the only side to win Commonwealth Games gold in men's hockey ©Getty

and it was chalked off after it was deemed Tarrant was impeded in his attempt to clear.The National Hockey

titleJune 2014: Ciriello hat-trick helps Australia's men beat Dutch hosts at Hockey World Cup final

Emirates Arena - which includes the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome - the SSE Hydro and the Glasgow National Hockey

of individual victories over the "Poms", in squash just now and in netball and both men and women's hockey

Hockey update at half-time"Half-time here at the hockey and it looks like an Australian hockey double

"- Reporter Gary Anderson on an improvement in the weather at the hockey.

We are into yet another penalty shoot-out in the hockey as England and New Zealand finish at 3-3.

"- Is there ever a boring hockey match involving England?

By Nick Butler at the Glasgow National Hockey CentreAustralia sensationally avoided a huge shock at the

There was a wonderful atmosphere in the National Hockey Centre despite the weather ©Getty ImagesAfter

English house down, with the prospect of a first victory for the country in either men's or women's hockey

defeated the hosts Scotland for fifth place, while there were also wins for Malaysia and Wales.The hockey