By Tom DegunNovember 23 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have announced an extension of their partnership with TeamFanShop meaning that the e-commerce service giant will continue hosting the National Olympic Committee's official online stores through to 2020.

store provider for six of the USOC's National Governing Bodies (NGB), which are USA Curling, USA Field Hockey

By David GoldNovember 23 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has agreed a long term partnership

This new agreement for telecast best of men hockey Champions Challenge and Champions Trophy, reaffirms

unprecedented value to FIH, not only in terms of the record licence fee, but also for us to guarantee hockey

fans and FIH sponsors unparalleled exposure for the world's best hockey events on the subcontinent's

By Tom DegunNovember 22 - Two-time Olympic swimming champion Kirsty Coventry has returned to the city which shares her name following her first ever trip to the key London 2012 destination a year ago.

against West Ham United at the Ricoh Arena, attended the CPP Coventry Blaze v Nottingham Panthers ice hockey

By David GoldNovember 20 - Great Britain has named an 18-man squad for hockey's Champions Trophy in Auckland, New Zealand, next month.

There, the four major sports cooperate so American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey all

the dedication required to compete at the top, with beach volleyballers, handballers, GB sprinters, hockey

By David GoldNovember 16 - The decision by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) to award Ireland

Championships.Belgium will host a women's qualifying tournament as originally planned, at which the Irish women's hockey

will compete from March 17 until 25 against Spain, Belgium, France, Russia and Mexico.The National Hockey

a place at the Olympics.The chief executive of the Irish Sports Council, John Treacy, said: "Irish Hockey

The Irish Hockey high performance director, Dave Passmore, added: "To host the men's event is a real

Australia, New Zealand and Argentina, as well as hosts Britain, have already qualified for the men's hockey

By David GoldNovember 15 - Ukrainian pole vaulting legend Sergey Bubka, International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Patrick Hickey and Sochi 2014 chief executive Dmitry Chernyshenko (pictured) are the latest big names to be confirmed as speakers for the Russian International Olympic University's (RIOU) Brand Building and Communications course.

as well as delegates from Sochi 2014, the Kazan 2013 Universiade and the Bosnian and Hungarian Ice Hockey

communications course also features guest lecturers René Fasel, President of the International Ice Hockey

By David GoldNovember 13 - The Argentinean women's hockey team have been granted a reprieve and a place

automatic spot at the Games as the highest ranked side yet to book a place at the Olympics.The Argentine Hockey

confirmed that Las Leonas had qualified for the London Games after being invited by the International Hockey

By Tom Degun in St Kitts and NevisNovember 12 - Women's sport has received a major boost after both boxing and rugby sevens were voted onto the Commonwealth Games sports programme as optional sports while the other big winners were the triathlon mixed relay and beach volleyball.

one, compulsory sports remains unaltered with aquatics/swimming, athletics, badminton, men's boxing, hockey

By Tom Degun in St Kitts and NevisNovember 11 - The Gold Coast have been awarded the 2018 Commonwealth Games after holding off sole rivals Hambantota of Sri Lanka here at the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly.

development of the Coomera Sports and Leisure Centre and upgrades to the Broadbeach Bowls Club, Gold Coast Hockey

By Mike RowbottomNovember 10 - A British Olympic Association (BOA) delegation including eight distinguished former Olympians will attend the Armistice Remembrance Day celebrations held annually in Ypres, Belgium on November 11 at 11.00am, with a particular view to honouring Olympic athletes who died during World War I.

a bronze medallist in rowing at the 2004 Games, Richard Leman, the BOA board member who won Olympic hockey

chair of The Olympians, and two World War II veterans in John Peake, a 1948 Olympic silver medallist in hockey

By Mike RowbottomNovember 1 - Darren Campbell's team of athlete mentors will be joined by a host of world champions and gold medallists from sports including athletics, boxing and swimming as they visit schools across the UK to help improve the lives of thousands of young people on behalf of Sky Sports Living for Sport during the new academic year.

and Olympic sprint relay champion, will be accompanied by elite competitors including British women's hockey

By David GoldOctober 28 - Russian ice dancer Olympic champion Tatyana Navka (pictured left) has been named as the newest Sochi 2014 ambassador, and will promote the Olympic and Paralympic values across the country in the two-and-a-half years before the Games come to the Black Sea coast.

Roman Kostomarov.She joins a list of illustrious ambassadors for the Winter Olympic Games, including hockey

By David Gold at the London Hockey Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonOctober 27 - With just a over

Robertson was speaking at the London Hockey Centre, which in itself was a stark reminder that even though

guarantee of success when it comes to bidding.London had last year surprisingly lost a bid to host the 2014 hockey

World Championships at Lee Valley Hockey Centre, the sport's legacy facility from the 2012 Olympic