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

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

By David GoldMay 1 - Britain's men's hockey squad for this week's VISA International Invitational Hockey

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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

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

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

By Tom DegunApril 24 - The city of Fredericton in Canada will host the 2013 World Mixed Doubles and World Senior Curling Championships, it was announced today by the World Curling Federation (WCF) and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA).

during the week.The first ice surface is Olympic-sized and has 500 seats while the second is National Hockey

contributions to help push it forward.Esther Vergeer (wheelchair tennis), Thomas Jacobsen (ice sledge hockey

By Tom DegunApril 23 - More than 4,000 athletes from 20 countries are set to compete together in Montreal as Défi sportif, an international event that assembles all types of disabled athletes from elite to newcomer, begins today.

the event, which runs for seven days, sees participants compete in the 13 sports of athletics, ball hockey

By Mike RowbottomApril 18 - Quadruple Olympic champion Sir Matthew Pinsent has endorsed the award of an extra £750,000 ($1.2 million/€916,000) towards final preparations for Britain's Olympians and Paralympians, marking the milestone of 100 days from the start of the London Games.

their final preparations:·  Additional training camps and competitions: for example, the men's hockey

David Faulkner, GB Hockey performance director, said: "With our men having no Champions Trophy before

By Tom DegunApril 15 - Gymnastic troupe Spelbound, the winners of the 2010 edition of Britain's Got Talent, will perform at the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 Sainsbury's School Games finals on May 9 at the Olympic Park in Stratford.

basketball will take place at the ExCeL Centre whilst rugby 7's will held at Barking Rugby Club and hockey

By Duncan Mackay in MoscowApril 13 - Vladimir Putin today admitted that Russia bids for so many top sports events because it helps develop the infrastructure of the country.

nbsp;27th Summer Universiade next year, the 2015 World Aquatics Championships and the 2016 World Ice Hockey

By Tom DegunApril 12 - Commonwealth Games Canada (CGC) have announced the creation of a new five-person Athlete Council which will be chaired by Suzanne Weckend-Dill (pictured).

nbsp;Benoît Huot, Commonwealth Games cycling competitor Erinne Willock and Commonwealth Games field hockey

By David GoldApril 11 - Russia's Nikolay Polukhin has won the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for March.

His victory was only a narrow one, however.He defeated the United States ice sledge hockey team, which

nine votes, scoring 321 to his rival's 313.Petushkov also came in ahead of the South Korean ice sledge hockey

By David OwenRemember Eyjafjallajökull?Anna Hellman does.The Icelandic volcano caused some of her most stressful days as executive director of SportAccord Convention, which – as Hellman and her colleagues prepare for the 10th anniversary edition from May 20 to 25 in Québec City, Canada – is firmly established as one of the key events in the international calendar for sports decision-makers.

convention presents.The Denver convention in 2009 saw a mass visit by delegates to a Colorado Avalanche ice hockey