By Tom DegunAugust 27 - Ajax in the eastern part of the city will host the baseball and softball competitions for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, it has been announced.

table tennis.The Etobicoke Pan Am Complex cluster will host archery, BMX cycling and bowling.Field hockey

By Duncan MackayAugust 24 - USA Fencing has appointed Val Belmonte as its new chief executive and executive director, they announced today. 

The USA Fencing board of directors selected Belmonte, a former executive with USA Hockey and US Figure

Belmonte is a former ice hockey player whose career was ended by a severe eye injury after he was checked

director of athletics at Union College in Schenectady, New York; and director of coaching education at USA Hockey

served on several committees with National Collegiate Athletic Association conferences, the USOC and USA Hockey

By David Gold in LondonAugust 21 - Russian telecommunications giant MegaFon's involvement in major sports events in the years to come is important for the country's youth, it has been claimed.

2013 World Athletics Championships and Sochi the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in 2014.The World Ice Hockey

During the last eight to 10 years, MegaFon has supported all sport events in Russia – football, hockey

contract as we are waiting to find out which kind of rights [are available].Russia hosts the World Ice Hockey

Aquatics Championships in 2015 and Moscow the World Athletics Championships in 2013.Throw in the World Ice Hockey

By David Gold at the London Media CentreAugust 16 - London Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to turn this summer's Olympic and Paralympics into "gold for decades to come" here today.

coming to some of these venues.Among the tournaments to be staged in the capital, is the 2015 European Hockey

Gold at Team GB House in LondonAugust 15 - After claiming a memorable bronze medal, Britain's women's hockey

I think women's hockey can be and should be the premier team sport in the country."

, volleyball and water polo – women's hockey is the only one in which Britain has picked up a medal

disciplines they would describe as team rather than individual.Whichever argument you take, women's hockey

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

: No bad blood between us and Argentina, says GB women's hockey star Richardson

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 13 - British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan has today announced he will be stepping down from the position in November after seven years in the role.

vice-chairman, will be the early favourite to succeed Moynihan while Richard Leman, the President of GB Hockey

their Olympic gold, ending Dutch dreams of becoming the first nation to win both the men's and women's hockey

9-2 semi-final win over hosts Britain.In that match, they seemed to have invented a brand of "total hockey

story at [email protected] storiesAugust 2012: Rampant Dutch crush GB men's hockey

From Andrew Warshaw at the Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park in London August 10 - It did not quite live up to its billing as a thrilling, open encounter between the two best teams in the sport; in fact it was more solid than spectacular.

Netherlands (pictured top) who became only the second nation in history to retain the Olympic women's hockey

Cup, Champions Trophy and Olympic gold.Argentine skipper Luciana Aymar, the Diego Maradona of women's hockey

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesAugust 2012: Tears rather than silver or gold for GB's London 2012 women's hockey

By Tom DegunAugust 9 - Team GB's men's hockey team had their dreams of playing in a home Olympic final

said head coach Jason Lee.Ashley Jackson (centre) celebrates his goal during the men's Lonodn 2012 hockey

Lots of goals get scored in international hockey and we didn't perform how we aimed to perform, but we

By David GoldAugust 9 – Spain's men's hockey coach Dani Martin has escaped censure after demanding that

Leandro Negre, the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), apologises for the withdrawal

The draw was enough to give Britain a first semi-final since 1988, when they won the hockey gold in Seoul.They

houses, tower blocks, warehouses, industrial units, until the bus crests a rise on the A12 and the hockey

By Tom Degun at the Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 8 - Britain's female hockey team

had their hopes of a place in the Olympic hockey final against the Netherlands dashed when they lost

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesAugust 2012: No bad blood between us and Argentina, says GB women's hockey

By Tom Degun at Sochi.Park in Kensington Gardens in LondonAugust 8 - Worldwide Olympic Partner Dow Chemical Company have said the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will give them a real chance to show the solutions that they provide having only had two years to work on London 2012.

managed to accomplish so much at London 2012, with our solutions at many of the venues such as the hockey

By David GoldAugust 7 - Britain's women's hockey star Helen Richardson insists there is no bad blood

between the home side's hockey team and Argentina, ahead of their London 2012 semi-final tomorrow night

came at a time when tensions were particularly high between the two countries, after Argentine men's hockey

Hockey is a physical game, there are always little knocks people pick up, nothing is done deliberately

That is just hockey as a sport, there is no ill feeling at all towards the Argentinians."

Hopefully it will be an open game and we can play our running, good passing hockey"It will be nice to

match of London 2012May 2012: Argentine hockey player featured in controversial Falklands advert