By Tom DegunFebruary 2 - Wood chopping is "unlikely" feature at Gold Coast 2018 despite campaigners looking to get it added to the sports programme, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) have said.

of history on the Coast and is getting more notice overseas now in places like Canada, England and New

Zealand."

By Duncan MackayFebruary 1 - Sir Paul Holmes, Patron of Paralympics New Zealand, has died, it has been

He was 62 and had been suffering from prostate cancer.Sir Paul was one of New Zealand's most popular

Zealand and in 1996 became Patron.

  While competing on Dancing with the Stars he nominated Paralympics New Zealand as his charity

Zealand."

His support has helped to significantly raise our profile with the New Zealand public."

former performance director Bill Sweetenham has been appointed as the interim head coach of Swimming New

Zealand, it was announced today.

Sweetenham, who was also formerly,Australia's national youth coach, is due to begin his new role on February

Zealand in 2008,"We are absolutely delighted that Bill has taken up the role with us," said Mark O'Connor

, the acting chief executive of Swimming New Zealand."

It is an important time for our swimmers preparing for the upcoming New Zealand Open Championships which

Zealand while they conduct a worldwide search for a new permanent head coach.Contact the writer of this

By Emily GoddardJanuary 26 -The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has signed a deal with Chain Reaction Cycles for the 2013 World Triathlon Series, which will see the world's largest online bike store serve as its official retail performance partner.

the 2013 Series, which is entering its fifth year, as it showcases eight events starting in Auckland, New

Zealand, followed by San Diego, Yokohama, Madrid, Kitzbühel, Hamburg, Stockholm and finishing with the

By Tom DegunJanuary 25 - London 2012 medallist Stef Reid admits she is excited at the prospect of making history at the British Athletics Glasgow International Match tomorrow at the Emirates Arena when she will be one of several disability athletes competing in the event for the first time ever.

the programme.It will also be the first time ever that the competition will be staged at the brand new

competing in Glasgow on Saturday - it speaks volumes for what London 2012 achieved," said the 28-year-old New

Zealand born-athlete who competed for Canada before switching nationalities to Britain.

GoddardJanuary 22 - Three-time Olympic hockey player Marcelo Garraffo has been named as the women's team's new

the Argentinean men's team Claudio Junquet and Olympian Fernando Ferrara were named as the women's new

assistant coaches.The Leonas are scheduled to resume training next month ahead of a test series against New

Zealand in Rosario.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]

Australian sports administrator Christian Renford has been appointed as chief executive of Swimming New

Zealand, it has been announced.

organisation and called for the entire Board to resign and him to be removed.In the meantime, Swimming New

Zealand has undergone a whole of sport review by an independent panel.The Swimming New Zealand chair

constitution, have a new Board, a new chair and a new high performance director and believes swimming

background in swimming and was formerly the national surf sports manager at Surf Life Saving Australia.New Zealand

storiesSeptember 2011: New Zealand swimming in turmoil following resignations

on a regular basis.Just over a year before the Paralympic Games got underway, I was in Christchurch, New

Zealand, for the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships.

Sports do need their one superstar to be their global ambassador.But with Pistorius in this new event

Two months before the Japanese tsunami, Christchurch, the second biggest city in New Zealand, was hit

2018 World Cup finals, the forthcoming swimming and ice hockey World Championships, not to mention a new

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 6 - Italian rowing, which managed to earn just one medal - a silver - at the London 2012 Olympics, has placed its faith once again in the talents of Giuseppe La Mura (pictured) as it seeks to improve its showing in the Olympic cycle leading to Rio 2016.

provided in the double sculls, where Alessio Sartori and Romano Battisti finished second behind the New

Zealand pairing of Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan.La Mura supervised a highly successful competition

By Tom DegunJanuary 1 - Britain's 11-time Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson believes the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships should always be held side-by-side.

difficult times in the calendar.She points to the Christchurch 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships in New

Zealand as a key example after that event was held from January 21 until 30."

"Thriller Thursday" at London 2012.Since January 2011 when Jerome Singleton won the world title in New

Zealand in a thrilling photo finish, I'd made it my goal to build the men's 100m T44 Paralympic final

growth and development of the sport that Singleton, defending Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius and new

among those associated with the sucess of London 2012 rewarded with a knighthood in the Queen's New

originally, a quota of 45 members for the United Kingdom, seven for Australia, two for New

Zealand, and 11 for other Commonwealth realms.London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton will be

London 2012 communications director Jackie Brock-Doyle receives an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours

By Tom DegunDecember 28 - Sport England chief executive Jennie Price claims that she would fully support a bid from the country for the 2022 Commonwealth Games following the inspirational effect of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

infrastructure, although the international bidding process will not officially begin until 2014.Canada, New

Zealand South Africa, Singapore and Sri Lanka are other countries currently considering bids but it

CGF PresidentNovember 2011: Exclusive - I want lots of bidders for 2022 Commonwealth Games says new

An independent assessment of the short-term economic impact of last year's rugby union World Cup in New

Zealand has indicated that the tournament sustained the equivalent of more than 20,000 jobs for one

The analysis, prepared for the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development by consultants Market Economics

€1.07 billion).The assessment noted, however, that this economic impact, which is expressed in 2007 New

Zealand dollars, would be offset in the longer term by "the repayment of loans used to fund the capital

Zealand, nearly twice initial estimates.

Zealand, and the Under-20 FIFA World Cup, also in 2015.The 2015 rugby World Cup is to be held in England