he is leaving his post as Wales Sevens head coach after more than five years in the job to take up a new

Zealand in the quarterfinals at the Luzhniki Stadium.Under Paul John, Wales reached the pinnacle of

Zealand at last year's tournament in Moscow ©AFP/Getty ImagesWRU national performance manager Gethin

paid tribute to John for his work in developing the sevens game in Wales and wished him well in his new

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Zealand in quarter-finals as IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens heats upJune 2013: Defending champions

By Nick ButlerJanuary 6 - Great Britain's London 2012 lightweight coxless four silver medal winner Rob Williams has become the latest in an ever growing list of top male rowers to announce their retirement from the sport. 

seven-year international career Williams won a World Championship title at Lake Karapiro in New

Zealand in 2010, as well as bronze medals at both the 2007 and the 2011 editions.

latest in a growing list of London 2012 rowing champions to leave the sport, following the likes of New

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 5 - Paul Sinton-Hewitt, founder of parkrun - the free five kilometre event which now has more than 760,000 registered runners across 10 countries - has revealed that the event will become established this year in Russia.

One hundred and fifty three new events were added in 2013..."

The United Kingdom added the most new events followed by Australia and South Africa."

around the world, including in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Poland, the Republic of Ireland, New

Zealand, the United States, Singapore and, most recently, Russia.

By Mike RowbottomGetting people running is an aspiration being pursued with increasing purpose all around the world as Governments seek to set their sometimes all-too-solid citizens on the path to fitness and health.That aspiration is widely shared - both by the big federations and organisations which put on athletics events, and at grass roots - as we are witnessing in the growing phenomenon of ideas such as parkrun, which now has more than 760,000 registered runners across 10 countries.When the Cardiff delegation heard the good news in Monte Carlo two months ago that their city was confirmed as host of...

City Hall in Copenhagen - a new plan to integrate the elite event with a mass participation race was

events were added in 2013...the UK added the most new events followed by Australia and South Africa.

Zealand, the United States, Singapore and, most recently, Russia.

New Zealand uses Lower Hutt for racing.

"We started 82 new events this year, and next year we plan to start another 100," said Williams.

I am currently in New Zealand, a country anticipating the restoration of rugby to the Olympic programme

very simple: it is high time the Winter Olympics and Paralympics were staged south of the equator and New

Zealand would make a fabulous location.The trip - which included a few days in Queenstown, "Adventure

to work out why, besides advanced age, I am instinctively rather suspicious of adventure sports.New Zealand

Olympic Movement, which will, I think, find itself increasingly drawn to this exciting, adrenalin-fuelled new

By Gary AndersonJanuary 1 - Organisers of Rugby World Cup 2015 today launched the official supporter tour packages for fans getting ready to attend the event in England.

particularly exciting to start what promises to be a big year for an event that will engage and inspire new

Fans of reigning world champions New Zealand will be among some of those with the furthest distances

Ltd and Sportsnet Holidays in Australia, Japan Travel Bureau in Japan, with All Black Tours servicing New

Zealand, Great Atlantic Travel in North America and SA Rugby Travel in South Africa.Fans in Britain

By Emily GoddardDecember 29 - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American tennis star Serena Williams have been named as the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Best Athletes for the second consecutive year.

Basketball Association (NBA) champions who racked up a 27-game winning streak in 2013.Third placed were the New

Zealand All Blacks rugby team - who achieved 14 wins from 14 matches in 2013 - on 461 votes.The UEFA

By Nick ButlerDecember 24 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has hailed the work of the Agitos Foundation in developing the Movement as it reaches the end of its first full year of work since being set up in 2012. 

Paralympic School, which has seen around 40 children gather twice a week to practice sport, while in New

Zealand a talent identification programme in swimming to find more people that could compete in classifications

By Paul OsborneDecember 23 - London 2012 Paralympic bronze medallist Fiona Southorn has been gifted a state-of-the-art customised bike as part of her ambassador role for the 2014 BDO Wellington to Auckland Cycle Challenge.

The New Zealand three-time Paralympian has won numerous medals, including her Paralympic and world

bronzes, on a hefty men's bike and feels this new lightweight customised bike will provide her with the

on her left hand, function grip and breaking can be tricky, however that won't be a problem with her new

Zealand.The bike was presented to Southorn by David O'Connor, chairman of BDO New Zealand, at a pre-event

Zealand announces road cycling squad for international eventsAugust 2012: Storey wins Britain's

By Emily GoddardDecember 21 - British skier Heather Mills has spoken out about the row over her prosthetic limb that has seen her abandon her hopes of competing at Sochi 2014 and claimed that an International Paralympic Committee (IPC) official had told her that her leg was "completely fine".

Eventually I got a wildcard to go to New Zealand and managed to win Britain a silver slalom medal."

By Gary Anderson at Alba di Canazei in TrentoDecember 21 - The 26th Winter Universiade came to a close here tonight with International University Sports (FISU) President Claude-Louis Gallien declaring them a huge success.

as Natalie Good proved just that by becoming the first ever Winter Universaide gold medallist from New

Zealand after she claimed the women's snowboard slope-style crown.

claim ice hockey title at Trentino 2013December 2013: Trentino 2013 Opening Ceremony mixes old and new

By Nick ButlerDecember 20 - New Zealand's double sculls Olympic champion Nathan Cohen has announced his

ranks with a fourth place finish in the double scull alongside Rob Waddell at Beijing 2008.Alongside new

Cohen was a key member of a generation of top New Zealand rowers, including other London champions in

and dominant pair, and world rowers of the year for 2013, Hamish Bond and Eric Murray.However while New

make the switch in codes back to rugby union from rugby league in time for a bid for inclusion in the New

Zealand team for the inaugural Olympic sevens competition at Rio 2016.

player before switching to the union version, which encompasses rugby sevens, in time to compete for New

Zealand in their successful World Cup campaign on home territory in 2011.

Zealand heavyweight title, due to inactivity, earlier this year.New Zealand Rugby Union chief executive

Sonny showed in his two years with New Zealand rugby that he is an outstanding talent and was a real

certainly be no easy task for Williams to be successful in returning to the starting line up of the New

GoddardDecember 20 - Olympic champion shot putter Valerie Adams has become the first athlete to claim the New

Zealand Olympic Committee's Lonsdale Cup for a record fourth time.

I am so humbled by this, what an amazing year it has been for New Zealand sport and Olympic sports producing

I am very proud of my year and especially creating history for New Zealand."

It's great that the New Zealand Olympic Committee recognises achievements like this each year and I thank

The Lonsdale Cup winner is selected by the New Zealand Olympic President's Council, which is made up

of business and sporting leaders, and the New Zealand Olympic Committee Board.Contact the writer of this

By Nick ButlerDecember 19 - Heather Mills has been threatened with threatened disciplinary action by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) following accusations that the Briton "verbally abused" and "physically harassed" an official.

injury-induced equipment row with IPCAugust 2013: Mills step closer to Sochi 2014 after finishing second in New

Zealand Winter GamesJanuary 2013: Exclusive - Mills will not get special treatment if she qualifies