By Emily GoddardOctober 11 - Jeff Crow of Australia's Sport the Library has scooped the top prize in the photography category of the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) 2011 Paralympic Media Awards with his image of Australian sit skier Shannon Dallas competing in the slalom event at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.

Daisuke Uehara and Mitsuru Nagases (pictured below) of Japan celebrating after winning their ice sledge hockey

international heroes, with highlights including his story on Alexi Salamone, an orphaned Ukrainian-born hockey

and said he expected to receive submissions from groups championing adaptive snowboarding, standing hockey

By Tom Degun at the Aquatic Centre on the Olympic ParkOctober 7 - Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, today unveiled the plans for the 2012 School Games finals, which will see around 1,600 of Britain's top young sports stars competing in four key Olympic venues just two months before the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

held in twelve current and future Olympic and Paralympic sports of fencing, rugby sevens, gymnastics, hockey

Biathlon Bobsleigh Curling Ice Hockey Luge Skating Skiing

Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Hockey

Cycling Equestrian Fencing Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Hockey

By Tom DegunOctober 5 - The England Hockey Board are launching an ambitious new programme titled Hockey

Nation which will see an exciting array of hockey events and activities take place over the next year

to take advantage of the increased profile that London 2012 will give hockey.

The project will cost the England Hockey Board nearly £1 million ($1.5 million/€1.2 million) and see

The England Hockey Board has been working hard behind the scenes for a number of years to prepare hockey

Hockey Nation," Munday told insidethegames."

Hockey Nation will be an umbrella for everything that will be great about hockey in 2012 and beyond so

There is The Big Dribble mass hockey participation event which will we see us dribble a giant hockey

By David GoldOctober 5 - There are just 100 days to go until the first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, where more than a thousand youngsters set to compete for honours.

Innsbruck will see a number of new Olympic events, including snowboard slopestyle, ski halfpipe and an ice hockey

By Tom DegunOctober 3 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has claimed that he is supportive of the plan from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) to move towards professionalism after the London 2012 Olympics.

We have had the situation in other professional sports - tennis, football, basketball, ice hockey and

By David GoldOctober 2 - The first World Girls' Hockey Day has taken place across four continents and

19 countries, the first time the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has staged the event, which

of girls joined in the fun today as professional athletes helped to inspire the next generation of hockey

aspirants.The event is designed to introduce girls to hockey in a fun and positive environment, giving

to both hone a potential new skill with a puck as well as meet new friends.Nineteen countries' ice hockey

to Finland.A "Women's Hockey to Sochi 2014" strategy was unveiled after the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games

by the IIHF, as they looked to make international hockey more competitive, with Canada having claimed

Britain's joyful hockey gold of 1988 is joyfully recalled by Barry Davies, another whose BBC commentary

By Tom DegunSeptember 29 - New images released by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) show that Eton Manor, the only new permanent Paralympic venue, is on track to be completed by early next year.

competition and four warm-up outdoor tennis courts.After the Games, Eton Manor will be transformed into a hockey

centre with four indoor and six outdoor courts and provision for five-a-side football pitches.The main hockey

include 3,000 permanent seats with flexibility to expand up to a total capacity of 15,000 for elite hockey

The hockey centre and tennis centre will be to a high specification; hosting international events alongside

By Emily GoddardSeptember 20 - South Africa's men's and women's hockey teams have secured places at the

just slowed down the game to accommodate their opponents.A happy Dave Carr, President of South African Hockey

And then there is the Bolshoi Ice Palace, where ice hockey will be taking place.

management firm Investec are set to bring prize money of nearly £10,000 ($15,783/€11,470) to the Women's Hockey

as part of a landmark six-figure sponsorship deal they signed with England and Great Britain women's hockey

The Investec Women's Hockey League season will get underway this weekend, with the winners and runners

Investec we are now able to offer prize money to the country's most successful teams," said England Hockey

The clubs are at the forefront of hockey in England, developing players and working hard to strengthen

Leicester who they narrowly defeated 3-2 in the Championship Final last season.The Investec Women's Hockey

then turn to the London 2012 Olympics in July and August, with the top players in the Investec Women's Hockey