By Gary AndersonOctober 20 - Top players will descend on the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre tomorrow for the 2013 Asia and Oceania Boccia Championships, one of the qualifying tournaments for Rio 2016.

category.As well as South Korea, Thailand, and China, competitors from Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore, New

Zealand and hosts Australia will be looking to secure Championship medals and make a positive start

By Emily GoddardOctober 20 - Second chance Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games tickets in track and field events, badminton, boxing, hockey, squash and weightlifting are among the options available to the public on a first-come, first-served basis when the on-sale window opens at 10am GMT tomorrow morning.

We're all set for this exciting new phase of ticketing during which there may be periods of high demand

ties against Malawi on July 29, Northern Ireland on July 30, as well as matches involving Australia, New

Zealand and England.Tickets will be available online at the Glasgow 2014 Ticketing website or via the

By Duncan MackayOctober 20 - New Zealand's Government is to appoint a diplomat dedicated to ensuring

The decision follows a group of New Zealand opposition MPs, led by Labour's Louisa Wall, approaching

 "Mr McCully also wrote to us saying that the New Zealand Embassy in Moscow has raised with the

Zealand."

New Zealand MP Louisa Wall has led efforts to ensure that the country's athletes will be looked after

The right of all our New Zealand team members to fully express themselves within the context of the Olympics

By Duncan MackayOctober 18 - Netball's venue at next year's Commonwealth Games could be switched to the newly-built Hydro, which would mean more tickets would be available for what is expected to be one of the most popular sports at Glasgow 2014.

the Commonwealth Games.The world's top 18 ranked teams are all eligible to compete at the Games.New Zealand

By Gary AndersonOctober 16 - Clifton Pinot, ridden by Australian Kevin McNab, and which finished 14th at last month's Burghley Horse Trials, has tested positive for the same banned substance as was found in the sample provided by the event's winner Clifton Promise, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) has revealed.

on September 8.Clifton Promise's rider, Jonathan Paget, who won bronze at London 2012 as part of the New

Zealand eventing team, was provisionally suspended from all national and international competition for

Network Television Ltd has been awarded the broadcast rights for the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Olympics in New

Zealand and the Pacific Island Territories, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today

As well as in New Zealand, the deal will see Sky providing coverage, which includes free-to-air, of the

With 13 medals, the New Zealand Olympic team enjoyed one of its strongest ever performances at London

Sky Netowrk Television covered Vancouver 2010 and London 2012, where New Zealand athletes won 13 medals

including six goldSky have also won the rights to broadcast the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in New

Zealand, having also shown Delhi 2010 after buying them from Television New Zealand.

By Emily GoddardOctober 15 - Jonathan Paget, who won Olympic bronze at London 2012 as part of the New

Zealand eventing team, has been suspended from all national and international competition after the

Equestrian Sports New Zealand (ESNZ) today released a statement saying that it had received news of the

Jonathan Paget won Olympic bronze at London 2012 as part of the New Zealand eventing teamPaget is now

By Gary AndersonOctober 14 - After seeing his Fiji side lose out to England at the quarter-final stage of the Gold Coast Sevens yesterday, Ben Ryan will renew rivalries with his former team again after both nations have been drawn in the same pool for next month's Dubai Sevens.

any weaknesses in his former England side Defending champions and winners in the Gold Coast New

Zealand are the top seeds in Pool A, where they will be up against a vastly improving Kenya side along

Zealand lead with 22 points from second-placed Australia on 19, with England lying in third on 17 points

Zealand off to a flier as Rugby Sevens World Series gets underway Down UnderOctober 2013: Promotion

and relegation introduced for new Sevens World SeriesSeptember 2013: Tickets for Emirates Dubai

By Gary AndersonOctober 14 - The United States will be hoping to make home advantage count as they seek to win the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (IWRF) Americas Championship for the third time in succession when the action gets underway in Birmingham, Alabama, this week.

in the process.Head coach James Gumbert's side also overcame the London 2012 champions Australia and New

Zealand at the Tri-Nations tournament in Sydney last month.Canada, ranked number three in the world,

By Paul OsborneOctober 14 - With Sochi 2014 fast approaching, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has named 14 Alpine skiers as ones to look out for in the lead up to the Games.

2013 IPC World Championships, losing out to Bochet in each one.Austrian athlete, Markus Salcher, is a new

with World Cup events already completed in the southern hemisphere in Coronet Peak and Mount Hutt, New

Zealand and Thredbo in Australia.The next major test will be the start of the 2013-2014 Europa Cup season

By Gary AndersonOctober 13 - Defending World Sevens Series champions New Zealand came from behind

the final on the Gold CoastSir Gordon's side had earlier overcome England 14-5 in the semi-final and new

by clinching third place with a record-breaking 47-0 win over a strong South African side.Amor and new

this story at [email protected] StoriesOctober 2013: Defending champions New

Zealand off to a flier as Rugby Sevens World Series gets underway Down UnderOctober 2013: Sevens

be streamed live online for the first timeOctober 2013: Promotion and relegation introduced for new

day of the 2013-2014 Rugby Sevens World Series on the Gold Coast, although it was defending champions New

Zealand who were most impressive as they conceded not a single point in their three pool matches.

Ryan, who stood down as England manager after six years at the helm just a month before taking up the new

season in the Spain match, while Dan Norton managed two against France.This represented a good start for new

head coach Amor.He was one of nine new coaches to feature in the opening event of the season - a sign

be streamed live online for the first timeOctober 2013: Promotion and relegation introduced for new

stepping down as England head coachSeptember 2013: Former England sevens captain Amor named as new

By Mike RowbottomThis year marks the 25th anniversary of the British men's victory in the Seoul Olympic hockey tournament, and the players who achieved that historic result will gather again tonight at Midlands hotel to recall and reminisce. Among them will be David Faulkner, left back on that glorious day in Korea, now director of sport at Millfield School having stepped down from his role as performance director for hockey, a role he filled from 2005 until the end of the London 2012 Games, where Britain's men finished fourth and the women won bronze.By the time he retired from playing, Faulkner, now...

So Martin added a new dimension to the team.

Olympics.Britain's captain Kate Walsh (left) in action during the London 2012 Olympic bronze medal match against New

Zealand"We make it particularly difficult for ourselves having to compete as England for three years

The Games gave hockey the opportunity to demonstrate its skills and speed to a new audience."

By Gary AndersonOctober 10 - All nine rounds of the upcoming 2013-2014 HSBC Rugby Sevens World Series will be streamed live online for the first time, the International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced.

Coast Sevens in Australia, which is due to take place this Saturday and Sunday (October 12 and 13).The new

forward in helping to satisfy the strong global demand for rugby sevens, which continues to engage new

television around the world, and will continue to, but this online platform now gives existing and new

homes.Online coverage will allow more rugby sevens fans than ever before the opportunity to see if New

Zealand can defend their title The governing body also said that online consumption of official

Shortly before taking England on their ultimately ill-fated journey to the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand

as operating under a flag of convenience, Johnson recalled his own time as a young player spent in New

Zealand, whose under-21 side he played for.Martin Johnson, who led England to the 2003 Rugby World Cup