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Playboy model hopes to be on top again in Helsinki

  • Athletics

By Mike Rowbottom June 24 - European long jump champion Ineta Radēviča, who raised eyebrows on the eve of the Athens 2004 Olympics by posing for a Playboy photoshoot dedicated to athletes about to compete at the event, now has a very different focus as she prepares to defend her title in Helsinki before going on to the London 2012 Games.

Latvian-born athlete who now trains in Moscow, where she lives with her husband, the Russian international ice hockey


Danson talks of "panic" over injury – but she and Cullen are fit and ready for London 2012

  • Hockey

National Sports Centre in MarlowJune 21 - Alex Danson, key forward for the British women's Olympic hockey

story at [email protected] storiesJune 2012: Kerry juggles injury-hit GB women's hockey

line-up for Investec tournamentMay 2012: Injured stars picked for GB women's Olympic hockey teamMay

2012: GB win in women's hockey test event overshadowed by injuries to Cullen and Danson


Aussie men's hockey team wins appeal against early morning starts at London 2012

  • Hockey

By Mike RowbottomJune 20 - Australia men's hockey team, favourites for gold at London 2012, has won an

the opposite group.Hockey Australia put in an official protest and the Federation of International Hockey

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesMay 2012: Britain to cross swords with Argentina in potentially fiery opening men's hockey


Exclusive: Sebastian Coe hopeful for Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid

  • Buenos Aires 2018

By Tom DegunJune 17 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe says he is hopeful Glasgow's bid for the 2018 Youth Olympics will be a success, owing to the legacy of the 2012 Games in bringing more major sporting events to Britain.

have got the World Athletics Championships there in 2017 in addition to the women's and men's European Hockey


London 2012 resale platform launched as 50,000 new tickets go on sale

  • London 2012

for the Olympics and also put on more on sale for a number of events in the Olympic Park, including hockey

Approximately 50,000 tickets are on sale now that the hockey competition draws are complete and further

A total of 25,000 hockey tickets and a limited number of tickets for diving, handball, modern pentathlon



Hockey removed from Olympic programme for Paris 1924 before restructuring

  • Fact of the Day

Hockey was removed from the Olympic programme at the 1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international

The International Hockey Federation was founded that year as a response to the omission.

Men's hockey was readmitted for Amsterdam 1928 and has appeared on the programme ever since.


Netherlands clinch Investec London Cup with easy win over Australia

  • Hockey

By Duncan MackayJune 10 - The Netherlands showed why they are world's top-ranked female hockey team when

: Australian comeback sets up Investec London Cup final with NetherlandsJune 2012: No chance for GB hockey

team to claim Investec Cup after defeat to GermanyJune 2012: Australia and Germany hockey victories

Britain stunned by South Africa in Investec Cup openerJune 2012: Kerry juggles injury-hit GB women's hockey


Australian comeback sets up Investec London Cup final with Netherlands

  • Hockey

By Duncan MackayJune 9 - Australia and Netherlands will meet in the final of the Investec London Cup tomorrow after they won the heir semi-finals at the University of Westminster Sport Grounds in Chiswick today.

writer of this story at duncan.mackay@insidethegames,bizRelated storiesJune 2012: No chance for GB hockey

team to claim Investec Cup after defeat to GermanyJune 2012: Australia and Germany hockey victories

Britain stunned by South Africa in Investec Cup openerJune 2012: Kerry juggles injury-hit GB women's hockey



Australia and Germany hockey victories mean both could reach Investec semi-finals

  • Hockey

By David GoldJune 6 - There were victories for Australia (pictured left) and Germany at the Investec London Cup, results which give both a good chance of reaching the semi-finals on Saturday (June 8)

Britain stunned by South Africa in Investec Cup opener June 2012: Kerry juggles injury-hit GB women's hockey


ICSS director Helmut Spahn to lead Euro 2012 security operation

  • Football

By Andrew WarshawJune 6 - Helmut Spahn, the former high-ranking German policeman who ran the security operation for the 2006 World Cup in his homeland, has been given a similar role for the forthcoming European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine.

Most recently, we supported the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in the delivery of the 2012

IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, in Finland and Sweden, and observed Europe's premier club handball


Britain stunned by South Africa in Investec Cup opener

  • Hockey

Sports Campus in ChiswickJune 5 - Britain's women were stunned 3-1 in their first game of the Investec Hockey

key names, including forward Alex Danson, out with a shoulder injury picked up in the recent Olympic hockey

story at [email protected] storiesJune 2012: Kerry juggles injury-hit GB women's hockey


Kerry juggles injury-hit GB women's hockey line-up for Investec tournament

  • Hockey

By David GoldJune 4 - Team coach Danny Kerry has named his Great Britian women's hockey line-up for this

share his medal-winning memories and thoughts on London 2012.And, on Saturday (June 9), the England Hockey

Board (EHB) will host its annual awards lunch, an event which will celebrate the best of hockey across

at [email protected] storiesMay 2012: Injured stars picked for GB women's Olympic hockey

teamMay 2012: GB win in women's hockey test event overshadowed by injuries to Cullen and Danson