women's European Championships, which will be staged in the Olympic Park, making them the first major hockey

The Lee Valley Hockey Centre, which the arena will be called after the Olympics, with its distnictive

blue and pink pitch, will host the event in August 2015 after being selected by the European Hockey

This successful bid is some consolation to the English Hockey Board (EHB) for its failure to win its

"The England Hockey Board has been honest in its promise of a legacy to hockey, not only today with this

time the Lee Valley Hockey Centre."

By David GoldMarch 20 - SportAccord has announced that Allison Melangton, the President and chief executive of the 2012 Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee, will be speaking at their 10th anniversary convention in Québec City in May.

place at the Québec City Convention Centre from May 20 until 25 and joining Melangton will be National Hockey

€19 million (£16 million/$25 million) National Sports Campus (NSC) at Abbotstown in Dublin, including hockey

GAA), the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) and the Irish Hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the Alpensia Convention Centre in PyeongchangMarch 20 - Pyeongchang today promised to make the 2018 Winter Olympics an "athlete-oriented Games" as it prepared to undergo it first inspection since being awarded the event last July. 

minute drive from Pyeongchang, to check the venues for speed skating, short-track speed skating, ice hockey

By Tom DegunMarch 18 - Atos, the leading international information technology corporation, has been unveiled as an Official Supporter of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, making the company the first worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner to become involved with the competition in Scotland.

Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallist Steve Cram (right) and athletes from the Scottish netball and hockey

By Tom DegunMarch 18 - Four-time Olympic medallist Angela Ruggiero (pictured) of the United States admits that she is delighted to be part the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics with the 11-member team set to make their first visit to the Korean city this week.

Province.The visit will be Ruggiero's first as part of an IOC Coordination Commission after the retired ice hockey

in Lillehammer.But the Harvard University graduate, who is also a three-time world champion in ice hockey

It is kind of like with ice hockey; if you don't notice the referee, they are probably doing a good job

Ruggiero to chair Lillehammer 2016 IOC Coordination CommissionDecember 2011: Ruggiero retires from ice hockey

By Tom DegunThe Organising Committee for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics can consider themselves extremely fortunate that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has named a Coordination Commission of huge experience to help the South Korean city with their preparations for the Games.The 11-person Commission will be chaired by Sweden's Gunilla Lindberg, who was part of the Coordination Commission for the Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.She is also part of the Commission for Sochi 2014, which is still in working mode.

Gian-Franco Kasper of Switzerland and his compatriot René Fasel, President of the International Ice Hockey

I'll always miss hockey," she smiles."It was obviously a big decision for me."

The book detailed her hockey career, including her experiences with misconceptions about women's hockey

I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back."

"I want to stay involved with ice hockey and I think I definitely will.

Brad Emmerson (pictured below, centre), are relishing the chance to compete together at the Ice Sledge Hockey

Jeff Sauer, and since being put together have led the United States to a silver at the World Sledge Hockey

By Duncan MackayMarch 14 - More than 40,000 people are to be given the opportunity to be at the Olympic Stadium in London for its first major event, an occasion that is set to be marked by an evening of entertainment and which will give one person to be chosen from the crowd the chance to officially declare it open.

142,000 tickets priced from £3 ($5/€4) to £20 ($31/€24) will be available for synchronised swimming, hockey

current Olympic and world champions.From May 2 to 6, some of the world's best men's and women's hockey

By David Gold at City Hall in LondonMarch 13 - Transport for London (TfL) director of Games transport Mark Evers (pictured) has insisted that they have a number of contingency plans in place for during the Olympics and Paralympics this summer in the event of problems on the capital's tube network.

will take place at the Olympic Park, including the athletics at the Olympic Stadium, water polo and hockey

By David GoldMarch 13 - The staging of last year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Athletics Championships are set to be recognised after they were shortlisted for the New Zealand Sport and Recreation award for Event Excellence.

, which took place in New Zealand last year on January 21 until 30, are up against the Owen G Glenn Hockey

By Tom DegunMarch 11 - Salt Lake City is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the 2002 Winter Paralympic Games this week, known now as the event that created huge awareness for Paralympic winter sports accumulating a mass new following of fans.

Flis, who was crowned the Most Valuable Player of the United States' gold-medal winning Ice Sledge Hockey

By Tom DegunMarch 9 - Four-time Olympic medallist Angela Ruggiero (pictured) of the United States has been named as the chair for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer.

The 32-year-old from California is one of the rising stars in the IOC and retired from ice hockey at

University graduate was just 18 when she won Olympic gold with the US team in 1998 - when women's ice hockey

Turin in 2006 and silver again at Vancouver in 2010.The former defenceman is also a four-time ice hockey

Coordination Commission for the 2012 Youth Olympics.René Fasel, the Swiss President of the International Ice Hockey

By Tom Degun in BarcelonaMarch 8 - Some of Spain's Olympic medallists from Barcelona 1992, including former football star Alfonso Pérez, have backed Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games at a special gathering at the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) headquarters.

Judo, athletics, water polo, field hockey, and boxing were some of the sports represented at the event.Contact

By David Gold at City Hall in LondonMarch 7 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe (pictured) staunchly defended Dow Chemical's sponsorship of this summer's Olympic Games during a grilling by London Assembly members here today.

Dow's position as an Olympic partner, while Aslam Sher Khan, an Olympic bronze medallist with the 1972 hockey