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Gilbert and Cullen send Britain into Olympic hockey test final

  • Hockey

London May 3 - Britain's women have stormed into the final of the Visa International Invitational Hockey

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesMay 2012: Riverbank Arena pitch will be perfect for the Games, says GB women's hockey

coachApril 2012: Britain's Olympic women's hockey test event squad named


GB Hockey partner up with The Times

  • Sponsor News

By David GoldMay 3 - Great Britain Hockey and The Times have agreed a partnership which sees the newspaper

competitions during the build-up to London 2012, beginning with this week's Visa International Invitational Hockey

which the women will compete.Jonathan Cockcroft, commercial and membership director at Great Britain Hockey

We look forward to hockey being one of the most read about sports this summer."

The last time Britain won an Olympic title in a team sport was 1988, when men's hockey struck gold in

Seoul, and everyone will be hoping that hockey can end that 24-year wait in London this summer."


This one is special for me, admits Coe on eve of athletics test event

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Stadium in LondonMay 3 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe revealed that the athletics test event for the Olympics, the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Visa Outdoor Athletics Championships, will be particularly special for him when the four-day event gets underway tomorrow.

athletics test event will be one of several taking place on the Olympic Park over the next few days with hockey


Riverbank Arena pitch will be perfect for the Games, says GB women's hockey coach

  • Hockey

the Olympic Park in London May 3 - A day after Australia's coach Ric Charlesworth criticised the hockey

pitch (pictured) at the Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park, the field has been defended GB women's hockey

We put down the hockey field of play a year before the Olympic competition starts," he said."

It's followed exactly the International Hockey Federation requirements in terms of the bedding-in process


Paralympics New Zealand named as Event Excellence Awards finalist

  • Athletics News

By Tom DegunMay 3 - Paralympics New Zealand was named as a finalist in the Event Excellence Award at the New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards in Rotorua this week in a move which acknowledged their successful organisation of the 2011 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Athletics Championships in Christchurch.

They were one of three finalists alongside Hockey New Zealand, who ran the Owen G Glenn FIH Champions

Trophy and the AIMS Games, who organised the NZCT AIMS Games National Sporting Championships.Although Hockey


Final London 2012 test events get underway at Olympic Park

  • London 2012

By David Gold at the Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park in LondonMay 2 - Near to 150,000 people are expected in London's Olympic Park over the next week for the final cluster of London 2012 test events, which got underway today as organisers put the final touches to preparations for this summer's Games.

The Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament, which began here today and will run until Sunday

Trophy.Eight-time Olympic champions India, who return to the Games after missing out on Beijing 2008, complete the hockey

Arena.Speaking to journalists assembled at the temporary Riverbank Arena which will stage the Olympic hockey

essentially integrate it with the tennis facilities at Eton Manor, providing a fantastic legacy for hockey

I told people in the United Kingdom to go to hockey, it gets you into the Olympic Park for the experience


Sally Munday: What I'd have told Radio 5 Live phone-in listeners about hockey... had I been put on air

  • Inside the Blogs

I cannot speak for the other sports but hockey is activating the biggest engagement programme across

Our plan has been to create great new ways to play the game, and a fantastic number of hockey clubs and

 We're taking our Hockey Roadshow to areas of high footfall where we can give people the

opportunity to have a go, meet international hockey players and be part of our collective effort to

Olympic experience close to home.Wear RED campaign: Some 630,000 people will have hockey tickets for



Ed Zemrau, the man who helped bring Commonwealth Games to Edmonton, dies at 78

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By Tom DegunApril 29 - Ed Zemrau (pictured), the man who successfully led Canada's governing body for university athletics before helping take the Commonwealth Games to Edmonton in 1978, has passed away at the age of 78 after losing his battle with cancer.

amateur sport scene and in his younger days, he captained the University of Denver to its first ever NCAA hockey


Britain's Olympic women's hockey test event squad named

  • Hockey

By David GoldApril 26 - Britain's women's hockey coach Danny Kerry has named his squad for the upcoming

Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament at the Olympic Park next week.

Korea.The squad features five players from the victorious Leicester team at the recent Investec Women's Hockey

League.Also selected is Helen Richardson, who was named in the 2011 International Hockey Federation


Vergeer and Norfolk head stellar cast at Eton Manor Wheelchair Tennis International

  • Wheelchair Tennis

By David GoldApril 25 - Esther Vergeer, the dominant woman on the world wheelchair tennis circuit, and Paralympic double gold medallist Peter Norfolk will head a stellar line-up in the Eton Manor Wheelchair Tennis International next month.

tickets have been sold to the public to date.With a number of other test events, including Olympic hockey