By Duncan MackayAugust 15 - Leeds will be the main European base for China during the build-up to London 2012, it has been announced.

mountain biking, fencing, modern pentathlon, swimming, women's water polo, women's handball, women's hockey

for mountain biking (pictured), Bishop Burton near Beverley for modern pentathlon, and Wakefield for hockey

in LondonAugust 15 - Investec will be the principal partner of the England and Great Britain women's hockey

The next 18 months give us an unparalleled opportunity to motivate current hockey players and entice

of hockey for primary school children, the England Hockey League Women's Premier Division and Conferences

The range of support goes from grassroots kids' hockey all the way to the senior national teams."

We are very excited about working with the England and GB Hockey women in the years to come."

this partnership will also support hockey at community level."

By Duncan MackayAugust 15 - European and Canadian delegates have finised a successful three-day visit to inspect the Gold Coast's bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, during which some of Australia's top athletes helped show them around.

events, including ncluding the 100 yards, 440y and 880y, and then went on to captain Australia at hockey

By Marcus CrawleyAugust 12 - The England Hockey Board has announced a major new sponsorship deal with

This deal represents a significant investment into hockey for Maxifuel," said Morgan."

We see this as an exciting opportunity to help the England Hockey Board to grow the sport from grassroots

Jonathan Cockcroft, Commercial and Membership Director at England Hockey, said: "Maxifuel has been helping

the England and Great Britain hockey teams fulfil their potential on the pitch and I'm delighted that

As well as sponsor pins issued for 1 Year To Go, it looks like a wave of retail pins became available yesterday - but only at John Lewis Oxford street. The department has been expanded and re-arranged and the range on offer is much improved on our previous visits.

The sports on disply this time are Football, Shooting, Hockey, Goalball, Cycling, Rowing, Taekwondo,

By Tom DegunAugust 9 - Innsbruck 2012 and Planet Tirol have teamed up to launch the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Video Contest, which gives participants the chance to win top prizes ahead of the Games in Austria next year.

disciplines are alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey

By Duncan MackayAugust 5 - Sweden's Gunilla Lindberg will head the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission overseeing preparations for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, it was announced today.

;was elected by his fellow Olympic athletes to IOC Athletes Commission along with American ice hockey

International Olympic Winter Sports Federations (AIOWF) and Rene Fasel, the President of the International Ice Hockey

Maister, the former secretary general of the New Zealand Olympic Committee and a gold medallist in hockey

By David GoldAugust 3 - The British bobsleigh team have been Dallas undergoing pre-season training at the Michael Johnson Performance Centre in McKinney.

winnersDecember 2010: British Bobsleigh will "leave no stone unturned" in Sochi 2014 medal questDecember 2010: Hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 29 - The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) has today announced the three organisations that have been shortlisted to operate both the Aquatics Centre and the Multi-Use Arena after the London 2012 Games.

running of venues such as the Olympic Stadium, the ArcelorMittal Orbit, Lee Valley VeloPark, Lee Valley Hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 22 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced that Austrian alpine ski racer and double Turin 2006 Winter Olympic champion Benjamin Raich will be a Winter Youth Olympic Games Ambassador for Innsbruck 2012.

mixed relay, luge team relay, ski halfpipe, snowboard slopestyle, figure skating mixed team event, ice hockey

results of the Mission 2012 process alongside UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl, David Faulkner of GB Hockey

By David GoldJuly 21 - Olympic champions joined Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to witness the work being done by a $100,000 donation from the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to the Queensland Flood Relief effort.

Kieren Perkins, world record holder and fellow swimming gold medal winner Libby Trickett, Sydney 2000 Hockey

Sebastian Coe was never one for complacency. He will cheerily tell of the moment soon after returning from Beijing when he was invited to lead a lap of honour of returning Olympians around the pitch at a Chelsea home game. As he paraded past The Shed end the crowd burst into an impromptu chorus of "There's only one Steve Ovett." Those of us who have known him from lad to lordship will attest that counting chickens has never been one of his characteristics which is why exactly one calendar year from next Wednesday, when the lights go up on the most...

want to be a chairman of an Organising Committee when those watching on telly are asking 'Why was the hockey

By David GoldJuly 20 - Peter King, the executive director of British Cycling, condemned the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympics, saying that they were "the wrong buildings in the wrong places".

Attention was paid to the failure of the National Hockey Centre in Milton Keynes, built in the 1990s

and which was the home of English Hockey until 2003, and last year was demolished.The Committee participants

By Emily GoddardJuly 18 - With the 2012 London Olympics just over a year away, the International Hockey

Federation (FIH) has announced its technical delegates for both the men's and women's hockey tournaments

Both bring vast hockey experience to the Games, Isberg from Stockholm, comes to London with one Olympic