By Duncan MackayDecember 10 - Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson's former mentor, Jenni Banks, has been appointed as UK Athletics' new wheelchair racing coach to help the team prepare for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced today. 

Price, a former top-class hockey player before her career was ended by a serious knee injury, was also

By Tom DegunDecember 18 - American International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Anita DeFrantz says her country loves the Olympics and Paralympics and wants to host the Games with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Board set to meet this week to discuss a potential bid for either the 2024 Summer Games or 2026 Winter Games.

lead role for the five-person Working Group that also includes fellow IOC member Angela Ruggiero, USA Hockey

  American IOC member and Nagano 1998 ice hockey gold medallist Angela Ruggiero is part of the

By Duncan MackayDecember 14 - Double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world record holder for the pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva was today named as the Mayor of the main Olympic Village at Sochi 2014. 

Sea resort.In addition to the Athletes' Village, it will house the Olympic Stadium and arenas for ice hockey

By Mike RowbottomDecember 13 - Jade Jones winning Olympic gold in the taekwondo and then throwing her headguard in the air has been voted the most memorable moment of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in a poll carried out by BT, the official communications services partner of the Games.

in Britain.Crista Cullen winning the first Olympic medal in 20 years for Team GB women's hockey

was voted as the fifth most memorable moment of London 20125: GB women's hockey team winning bronze

at the Riverbank Arena, the first GB medal in women's hockey at the Olympics for 20 years.The rest of

By Mike RowbottomDecember 12 - Danny Kerry, who coached the British women's hockey team to a bronze medal

Kerry (pictured top), 42, head coach of England and Great Britain women's hockey since 2004, has overseen

Hockey has undergone a lengthy period of change since I began as head coach."

Danny Kerry led the British women's hockey team to a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics As

directors of England Hockey.Speaking of Kerry's appointment Sally Munday, chief executive of England Hockey

England Hockey chairman Philip Kimberley added: "Danny has very clear views on how we take our senior

By Duncan MackayDecember 11 - Canadian city Windsor will host the 2016 World Short Course Swimming Championships, it was announced by FINA in Istanbul today. 

multi-purpose entertainment complex which is home to the local city's professional basketball and ice hockey

By Emily GoddardDecember 11 - Russia's ice sledge hockey team have been named as the International Paralympic

Committee's (IPC) Athlete of the Month for November after winning gold at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

Dutch stars top IPC Athlete of the Month shortlistNovember 2012: Russia wins 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

By Mike RowbottomDecember 6 - Sarah Winckless, Olympic bronze medallist and double world champion rower, has held off the challenge of four London 2012 competitors – including fellow Olympic rowing medallists Zac Purchase and Alex Partridge – to earn re-election as chair of the British Olympic Association's (BOA) Athletes' Commission.

coxless fours and Olympic silver and bronze in the eight – Winckless faced competition from Britain's hockey

Hockey player Ben Hawes was among the five athletes confirmed to remain on the CommitteeIn order to establish

term to December 2014.The following athletes were confirmed to stay on the Committee: Ben Hawes from hockey

By Tom Degun December 6 - Record numbers of women and men in this country are playing sport every week following London 2012 according to new figures in the Sport England Active People Survey revealed today.

sports measured by the survey have shown a positive trend over the past year with athletics, judo, hockey

By Tom Degun December 6 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has named the 10 young golfers who will become the first athletes to represent Team GB in the sport for more than a century at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in Sydney next month.

120 selected athletes competing in the 11 sports of badminton, basketball, diving, golf, gymnastics, hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in LausanneDecember 4 - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) were today suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) because of the row over its elections.

formed in 1927 and competed for the first time at the following year's Olympics in Amseterdam, when its hockey

By Emily GoddardDecember 3 - Bibian Mentel, the Dutch snowboarder who has won the first IPC-sanctioned event in the sport since it was accepted onto the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games programme on her home course in Landgraaf, joins compatriot wheelchair tennis player Jiske Griffioen on the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) shortlist for the Athlete of the Month title.

Russia's ice sledge hockey team defeated Germany 3-2 in a shootout at the 2012 Ice Sledge Hockey B Pool

World Championships Russia's ice sledge hockey team were also named finalists for the award following

their gold medal win at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey B Pool World Championships, which sees them move

By Emily GoddardDecember 3 - The Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on the London 2012 Olympic Park

field of the top eight men, eight women and four quad players in the world rankings.The Lee Valley Hockey

As the only purpose built venue for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre

The Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on the Olympic Park hosted the London 2012 Paralympic tennis

By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - The £292 million ($468 million/€362 million) transformation of the Olympic Park officially begun today as the temporary seats installed at the Aquatics Centre for London 2012 were stripped away by builders. 

Olympic Park started as soon as London 2012 finished in SeptemberThe Riverbank Arena, which hosted hockey

competition and warm-up swimming pools during the Games, is to become a new sports facility called Lee Valley Hockey

and Tennis Centre.The 2015 European Hockey Championships are to be staged there and a bid is in to host

By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - Venues in the costal cluster for Sochi 2014 are close to being completed in time for a series of test events next month and early in 2013 , Russian President Vladimir Putin has been assured. 

 The Bolshoi Ice Dome and adjacent Shayba Arena will host ice-hockey matches, with the final

The Bolshoi Ice Palace is set to host the Ice Hockey Under-18 World Championships next April The

Bolshoi is due to host the Ice Hockey Under-18 World Championships from April 18 to 28"The arena

is 100 per cent ready to receive hockey players and guests – and host future victories," said Sergey