By Emily GoddardFebruary 17 - England Hockey has signed up Berlei as its official sports bra supplier

in a deal that also sees the brand become the official partner of its Back to Hockey initiative.

programme will be promoted as "Back to Hockey, supported by Berlei", offering informal hockey sessions

The British women's hockey squad won a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics "With an Olympic bronze

medal to our name, the launch of Back to Hockey and 30,000 more people playing hockey, I'm thrilled

Berlei and England Hockey share common goals in promoting women's participation in sport and providing

them with the tools they need to enjoy playing hockey at every level."

By Emily GoddardFebruary 16 - Hockey player Keli Smith-Puzo has retired after a 10-year career as a striker

I am hanging up my playing stick but when hockey has been such a huge part of my life for all these year

Keli is an amazing woman and USA Field Hockey will greatly miss number 13."

enjoying parenthood and spending time with her family, as well as developing her training academy, Field Hockey

By James CrookFebruary 15 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) are due to meet with the Rio 2016

the Olympic Park in the Barra da Tijuca region; a 40-minute drive from Deodoro.Plans to relocate the hockey

action at the Games would be taking place would have a negative impact on attendances and exposure.The hockey

impressive attendances during the GamesIn their Bid Book, Rio earmarked two sites on the Olympic Park for hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in LausanneFebruary 12 - Wrestling faces being removed from the Olympics after it was dropped from the list of core sports despite having appeared in every Games, except one, since 1896.

started the day seriously discussing the future of just five sports, which also included canoeing, hockey

wanted to be out in front of.In the first round they and modern pentathlon each polled five votes with hockey

 Wrestling lost, as eight members voted for them, with hockey and modern pentathlon getting three.Many

 The fact hockey was in the final three was a major surprise and should force the sport into a major

  Hockey was a big success at London 2012 but it still nearly faced the axe from the Olympics

By Emily GoddardFebruary 11 - Australian Olympic hockey gold medallist Nova Peris has been named as a

After winning gold in hockey at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics Nova Peris went on to claim a further two gold

By Emily GoddardFebruary 10 - Olympic women's hockey champions the Netherlands maintained their unwavering

[email protected] storiesJanuary 2013: England unveils 18-strong women's hockey

wrote and gave his support to "a strictly individual programme".Even so, between the wars, football, hockey

cycling, weightlifting and yachting.Tothese a further nine could be added: football (soccer) or rugby, hockey

Swimming and diving became synchronised and hockey, football and others introduced women's competitions

By Duncan MackayFebruary 8 - Sports who wanted to be included on the programme for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast have had their hopes dashed after Australian officials revealed that there would be no additions.

Athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, hockey, lawn bowls, women's netball, squash, rugby sevens and

By Duncan MackayFebruary 7 - Pakistan has been warned that it faces joining its neighbours India and being suspended from the Olympics if the Government continues to interfere with the administration of its National Olympic Committee.

February last year.Hasan defeated Pakistan Amateur Athletics Federation chief Akram Sahi and Pakistan Hockey

them gold, all in hockey.A total of 21 competitors represented Pakistan at London 2012, including its hockey

finished a creditable fifth in the recent European Figure Skating Championships in Croatia.The GB ice hockey

This would be the first time in over 60 years that Team GB would have an ice hockey team at the Olympic

costal cluster – where the Olympic Park will host curling, short track, figure and speed skating, ice hockey

By Duncan MackayFebruary 5 - A performance from figure skating stars Kim Yu-na and Michelle Kwan was the highlight of the Closing Ceremony of the 2013 Pyeongchang Special Olympics World Winter Games tonight.

the Ceremony.Before the Closing Ceremony started, participants paid tribute to Gareth Cowin, a floor hockey

By Duncan MackayFebruary 4 -  Bill Furniss, the man who helped guide Rebecca Adlington to four Olympic medals, has been named as British Swimming's new head coach, it was announced today. 

previously worked as a performance director for the Rugby Football Union and Great Britain and England Hockey

By Emily GoddardFebruary 4 - Jason Lee has been named as the new head coach of the England women's hockey

The 42-year-old former hockey player and double Olympian (pictured top), having represented Britain at

Germany 5-3 in the final.At London 2012, the Team GB men just missed out on their first Olympic men's hockey

Jason's wealth of experience is extremely valuable to England Hockey and whilst we feel that the men's

postsAugust 2012: We want to be Britain's best women's team, declares Team GB hockey coachAugust

2012: Tears rather than silver or gold for GB's London 2012 women's hockey team

By Tom DegunFebruary 4 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) are celebrating one year to go to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games on Thursday (February 7) with a full week of activities beginning today.

media teleconference on Wednesday (February 6) with Olympic medallists and 2014 hopefuls including ice hockey

By Mike RowbottomMike Hay knows what it takes to perform supremely well at Olympic level. After a competitive curling career in which he helped Scotland win five European titles and two world silver medals, he turned to a coaching career in which, most gloriously, he guided Rhona Martin and her team of Scotswomen to their never-to-be-forgotten performance at 2002 Salt Lake City, where they came from the brink of an early exit to win the first British Winter Games since Torvill and Dean's 1984 ice dancing triumph, making the front and well as the back pages in the UK and...

the city in the morning, then go up to the mountains to watch something, then come back and watch a hockey

Especially if Britain's ice hockey players succeed in winning their group at a qualifier tournament in