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

By David OwenJuly 18 - Dagestan could launch a bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, aiming to extend a remarkable run of Russian success in securing major international sports events, insidethegames understands.

Paralympics, the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the 2013 World Athletics Championships and the 2015 World Ice Hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 16 - Joinery firm Wood Newton, who are based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, have gone bust with the loss of 54 jobs just weeks after completing work on the roof for the iconic London 2012 Olympic velodrome.

involving one of the largest clear spanning timber structures in the UK, included a tennis centre and hockey

By Duncan Mackay in TokyoJuly 16 - Tokyo today formally announced its bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in front of a dozen members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including President Jacques Rogge, as a symbol of Japan's determination to recover from the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami which has so affected the country.

chairman of the IOC Athletes' Commission; and Switzerland's Rene Fasel, President of the International Ice Hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 15 - Glasgow 2014's Athletes' Advisory Committee (AAC) has appointed three new Scottish members to broaden their expertise, including shooting gold medallist Neil Stirton (pictured right).

competing at Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games.The ACC is chaired by former Scottish international hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 16 - A new high performance leadership programme combining performance development consultancy, Lane4's experience in the corporate world, research from Loughborough University and insights from Team GB will be launched in November this year.

Loughborough University.British Triathlon chief executive Zara Hyde Peters and men's head coach at England Hockey

By Tom DegunJuly 15 - Mayor of London Boris Johnson has today announced that over £12 million ($19 million/€14million) will be invested into grass-roots sports projects in the English capital as part of the drive to get thousands more people fit and active, hitting his target of channelling £30 million ($48 million) into sport ahead of the London 2012 Games.

From hockey in Hillingdon to karate in Kingston, we are storming ahead to revamp facilities and increase

karate club in Kingston-upon-Thames, the reopening of a disused lido in Charlton, and a new floodlit hockey

By Duncan MackayJuly 15 - Russian city Kazan and Mexico's Guadalajara were today chosen as hosts of the 2015 and 2017 World Swimming Championships by governing body FINA as Hong Kong missed out.

FIFA World Cup, as well as the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow and the 2016 World Ice Hockey

his own nation's stars in the homeland which invented the sport.Only three Olympic sports - boxing, hockey

By David GoldJuly 12 - Some of England's top hockey talents will be taking part in the London Cup in

Olympic Games this is a great opportunity for people to come and see us and find out a bit more about hockey

I think anyone who isn't familiar with hockey will be very impressed with the speed and skill."

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