By David GoldOctober 7 - New Zealand's new men's hockey coach Colin Batch is intent on making them a

group, as they overcame more illustrious opponents including eight-time champions India.Batch believes New

Zealand should be aiming to emulate the 1976 team that won gold at the Toronto Olympics."

Both of New Zealand's hockey teams are now coached by Australians, with Mark Hager in charge of the women

By Mike RowbottomOctober 3 - World Squash Federation (WSF) President N Ramachandran has been re-elected by acclaim for a further four-year term at the 42nd WSF AGM in Stockholm, Sweden.

the growth in squash in Poland; marketing initiatives from other sports; a stakeholder survey from New

Zealand; the Swiss National Development Plan marketing planning; and an Olympic bid update given by

By Duncan MackaySeptember 29 - Chantal Petitclerc, one of Canada's most decorated athletes of all time, has been appointed as Team Canada's Chef de Mission for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, it was announced live on national television tonight.

to the Commonwealth Games, dating all the way back to 1990 when I was a silver medalist in Auckland, New

Zealand - the first time that events for elite athletes with a disability were included on the sport

is expected to take place in February.Canada had finished fourth at the last Commonwealth Games in New

By David GoldSeptember 23 - Russia's Dmitry Polyanskiy has won his second successive Tongyeong International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup title after beating Poland's Marek Jaskolka to claim victory in South Korea.

In the women's race, Nicky Samuels of New Zealand took her second ITU World Cup title after holding off

seconds following one lap.That lead increased further until the start of the run, at which point the New

By Mike RowbottomSeptember 23 - Marílson Gomes dos Santos, twice a winner of the ING New York City Marathon

The 35-year-old Brazilian (pictured above), who won in New York in 2006 and 2008, will be making his

Dado from Ethiopia, 2010 champion Kenyan Edna Kiplagat, 2012 Boston winner Sharon Cherop of Kenya, New

Zealand Olympian Kim Smith, 2012 US Olympians Julie Culley, Amy Hastings and Janet Bawcom.Tiki Gelana

Olympic Games"We are honoured to attract such a dominant international [elite] field for the 2012 ING New

York City Marathon," said Mary Wittenberg, President and chief executive of the New York Road Runners

By David GoldSeptember 23 - A court in Karnataka has issued a stay order on the Indian Tennis Association (AITA) decision not to consider selecting doubles specialists Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna to play for India until 2014.

Rohan Bopanna for selection to play for India until June 30, 2014".Oza added that they would bring in a new

doubles match with Rohan Bopanna at this year's Wimbledon tournament"We're going to lay down a new

The duo had already been dropped for the recent Davis Cup tie with New Zealand in Chandigarh.India instead

By Duncan MackaySeptember 22 - Triathlon New Zealand has appointed Briton Graeme Maw to the newly-created

," said Craig Waugh, chief executive of Triathlon New Zealand.

The quality of applicants was superb, a reflection of the high regard in which Triathlon New Zealand

 Maw is due to arrive in New Zealand in November and will officially take up his new role the following

The choice of Maw was endorsed by Alex Baumann, chief executive of High Performance Sport New Zealand

Triathlon New Zealand has acted quickly and professionally in their search for a HPD (high performance

By David GoldSeptember 20 - David Faulkner, the performance director of England Hockey and Great Britain Hockey, is leaving his post after overseeing the sport in the build up to and during this summer's Olympic Games in London.

were competitive at London 2012.Both teams reached the bronze medal match with the women defeating New

Zealand to claim Britain's first hockey medal since Barcelona 1992.Both England and Great Britain have

By Tom DegunSeptember 19 - The new International Rugby Board (IRB) chief executive Brett Gosper has helped

Pool B in a group that also features Scotland and Tonga.Defending HSBC Sevens World Series champions New

Zealand line up in Pool A alongside South Africa, the United States and Canada, while England head Pool

been involved in making the draw for the Gold Coast Sevens, our first major rugby sevens event in the new

Australia, the Series will head to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before travelling to South Africa, New

Zealand, the USA, Hong Kong, Japan, Scotland and finally England next May.In addition to the Gold Coast

By Duncan MackaySeptember 19 - New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams was today presented with her Olympic

New Zealand's Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae made the presentation at a special ceremony as 

 As the New Zealand flag was raised inside the Cloud, the flag on the Auckland Harbour Bridge was

Tonight's just been absolutely amazing, very overwhelming," said Adams, who had only arrived back in New

Zealand from her training base in Switzerland this morning for the first time since London 2012.

2012: Appeal by disgraced Belarus shot putter set to delay Adams' medal presentationAugust 2012: New

By Tom DegunSeptember 18 - Toshiba TEC UK Imaging Systems has been unveiled as the Official Office Automation Supporter of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

and it has delivered for global sporting events in the past having sponsored two Rugby World Cups in New

Zealand in 2011 and in France in 2007.Scotland's Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games 400m hurdles silver medallist

By Mike RowbottomSeptember 13 - The world's top squash players have staged a "flashmob" to draw attention to the sport's bid to be added to the Olympic programme in 2020 following what Malaysia's world number one Nicol David described as the "heartbreak" of watching a London 2012 Games where her sport was not included.

countries including hosts Malaysia, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Denmark, Netherlands, New

Zealand and Scotland."

By Duncan MackaySeptember 12 - Belarus shot putter Nadezhda Ostapchuk, stripped of the Olympic gold medal last month after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid, has been handed a one-year suspension, the country's anti-doping agency (NADA) has announced.

ago.In July, at a meeting in Minsk, she threw 21.58, the best outdoor distance in the world since 1998.New

Russian Evgenia Kolodko promoted to silver and China's Gong Lijiao getting the bronze.But officials in New

Zealand have criticised the deicison to let Ostapchuk off lightly.Drug Free Sport NZ chief executive

By Duncan MackaySeptember 11 - Marisol Casado is to be challenged for the Presidency of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) by Yu Kyung-sun (pictured), who earlier this year was forced to resign as the Chef de Mission of South Korea's team for London 2012 after he was implicated in a corruption scandal.

held in conjunction with the 2012 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final, which are being held in the New

Zealand city, will also see elections for the Executive Board, Coaches Committee, Consitution Committee

participating for the first time.One of the top athletes at the Arnhem 1980 Games was Neroli Fairhall of New

Zealand.