By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 23 - Hugh Robertson, the Minister for Sport and the Olympics, is confident that a British bid for the International Cycling Union (UCI) 2016 Track Cycling World Championships at the brand new Velodrome in the Olympic Park will be successful.

Championships, the World Athletics Championships, European Eventing Championships and the European Hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 23 - Glasgow 2014 have today celebrated the two years to go milestone (pictured left) to the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony by inviting three Scottish athletes – Rhona Simpson, Ross Muir and Jade Nimmo – to the site of the Athletes' Village.

competition.The most high profile of the three athletes that toured the Village today was former Scottish hockey

milestone at Glasgow 2014's Athletes' Village," said the 40-year-old, who is Scotland's most capped hockey

Scottish hockey star Rhona Simpson (on ball)Robison added that the Scottish Government are equally impressed

By David GoldJuly 21 - Great Britain Hockey has revealed there will be over 20,000 opportunities across

Britain to play hockey during this summer's Olympic Games.

More than 500 sites across the country will run "Hockey Nation Give it a Go" sessions for youngsters

the day of the London 2012 Opening Ceremony on July 27.Anyone, regardless of age, ability, previous hockey

the Olympic Games.The initiative is supported by the Hockey Hotline, a dedicated phone line offering

 England Hockey Board development director Holly Woodford said: "Having seen hockey participation

, we are ready to welcome sports fans to hockey!"

By David GoldJuly 20 - Sochi 2014 President Dmitry Chernyshenko has claimed that the black sea resort is making "great progress" in its preparations for the Winter Olympic and Paralympics.

events coming to the country in the years to come.With the 2018 football World Cup and the World Ice Hockey

By Sara EvansJuly 20 - USA Field Hockey have announced that new partners S'well Bottle, a water

S'well Bottle will design and manufacture special bottles for the women's field hockey team, just in

providing the women's team with a supply of custom bottles, S'well will also sell the same bottle to field hockey

fans, with proceeds from each purchase donated to WaterAid and USA Field Hockey.The US women's field hockey

By David Gold at the National Potrait Gallery in London July 19 - Aiming High, the final Road to London exhibition, has opened at the National Portrait Gallery in London, celebrating some of Britain's leading Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

Gymnastics Club where they train, are also in the group shot.Other athletes featured include the women's hockey

Gold at the BT Tower in LondonJuly 18 - Thirty British Olympic and Paralympic legends, including 1988 hockey

Sean Kerly, the 1988 Olympic hockey gold medallist, is among those backing the Join In campaignAmong

We used to play hockey with two men and a dog watching, and the first match after the gold medal... there

grassroots sport, but it gives those sports a brilliant opportunity to reach out to more people.Take hockey

  Through their Hockey Nation campaign and their version of the Torch Relay – the Big Dribble (pictured

By Lauren MatteraJuly 15 - London 2012 Olympic Games, outdoor experts Camping at the Games will be showcasing one of their sites being used for London 2012 accommodation next Tuesday (July 17), as part of their unique initiative to encourage some of the estimated two million Olympic visitors to camp in the capital.

participating venues, such as the Match Day Centre in Walthamstow Wodson Park, Blackheath RFC, Southgate Hockey

By Mike RowbottomJuly 14 - A total of 130 athletes and 56 coaches from 44 different sports have been for the Team GB Olympic Ambition Programme during the London Games.

Philip Marsh, road cycling's Lucy Garner, judo's Hayley Willis, Susannah Townsend and Maddie Hinch from hockey

By David GoldJuly 14 - Vitaly Mutko and Dmitry Kozak are the latest high profile speakers confirmed for this year's Global Sports Industry Congress (GSIC), taking place on August 2.

World Athletics Championships will be held in Moscow next year.Moscow will also stage the World Ice Hockey

By David GoldJuly 11 - Britain's 200 metres T42 sprint world record holder Richard Whitehead is June's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) athlete of the month.

Whitehead was born without lower legs and has previously competed for Britain in ice sledge hockey at

during the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Games: it shows Canadian kids, probably about 10 years old, playing hockey

Having seen ice sledge hockey (pictured above) at the Paralympics they are imitating it in the street

By Duncan Mackay at Trafalgar Square in LondonJuly 10 - David Weir heads an athletics squad of 49 chosen to represent ParalympicsGB at London 2012, it was announced here today.

Christchurch.His selection means that he will become a double Paralympian, having represented Britain in sledge hockey

By David GoldJuly 9 - Alexander Zhukov, President of the Russian Olympic Committee, will chair the proceedings of this year's Global Sports Industry Congress (GSIC), which will focus on the myriad sports events coming to the country in the coming years.

next year and the World Swimming Championships in Kazan two years later.In addition, the World Ice Hockey