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Over 200 elephants to be relocated for development of new Hambantota International Airport

  • Gold Coast 2018

By Tom DegunJuly 7 - Sri Lanka will relocate over 200 wild elephants in Hambantota to develop their major new International Airport that they hope will play an important role in ferrying athletes to and from the city if it wins its bid to stage the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

40,000 capacity athletics stadium, a 7,500 capacity international aquatics centre, a 7,000 capacity hockey


James Tindall: The international season, slimming, Chelsea FC, taking our clothes off and the build up to London 2012

  • Inside the Blogs

Ratman also has done a video for Wrappz Hockey.

Along with Rat and another of our players Matt Daly, I've become involved with Wrappz Hockey, a fun product

that enables people to personalise their hockey equipment.It has not gone unnoticed either that 11 members

tickets.James Tindall, who plays for Surbiton, has won 35 caps for Great Britain and was named as the Hockey

Writers Club Player of the Year in 2005British Hockey is represented by www.davidwelchmanagement.com





Exclusive: Cricket World Cup proved Hambantota can stage major events claims President's son

  • Gold Coast 2018

By Tom Degun in HambantotaJune 27 - Namal Rajapaksa (pictured), the MP for the Hambantota District and son of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has claimed the successful staging of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup here proved the Sri Lankan coastal city is ready to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

40,000 capacity athletics stadium, a 7,500 capacity international aquatics centre, a 7,000 capacity hockey



Living with pressure in the build-up to London 2012

  • The Big Read

So here is what the England women's hockey team have been contending with at the Champions Trophy in

We don't have a no-hockey rule in conversation - it's not something we avoid," she says.

"But we spend so much time every day involved in hockey that it is refreshing to go home and talk about


Queensland sporting legend Pirie receives 2011 IOC Women and Sport trophy

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, has been honoured by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after a great career in athletics, hockey

1960, denying her a chance to compete at the Games for Australia.Pirie also represented Australia in hockey

in 1955 after she and others reformed the Valley Women's Hockey Club in Brisbane.The club had disbanded

during the Second World War and after only two years of playing hockey Pirie made the state team."

I really enjoyed the team game and was happy to switch between the two, playing hockey in the winter

and running in the summer," she said.Like her running events, women's hockey was not added to the Olympic


Canadian Paralympians shoot hoops in Trafalgar Square

  • Latest (Paralympics)

By Emily GoddardJune 24 - Members of Team Canada preparing for the London 2012 Paralympic Games will take to Trafalgar Square in the capital on July 1 to mark Canada Day as the country celebrates its 144th birthday.

free throws with Mandeville, the London 2012 Paralympic Games mascot.The popular Trafalgar Cup street hockey

round robin, battling it out in the arena for the title of champion, while visitors can test their hockey

skills in the Hockey Hall of Fame Slapshot Experience.For those looking for a more zen experience, there


England Hockey Board signs Harvester as official restaurant partner

  • Hockey

By Emily GoddardJune 21 - The England Hockey Board (EHB) has announced that Harvester, the nationwide

and grill restaurant chain, has become the Official Restaurant Partner of England and Great Britain Hockey

EHB's Grow Your Own programme and will sponsor the annual Club of the Year Award.Grow Your Own helps hockey

Our hockey clubs are the lifeblood of the sport in this country," said Alex Teasdale, National Manager

With nearly 1,000 hockey clubs in England, the programme supports those that aspire to be well run, welcoming

clubs do not own their own clubhouse facilities and the Hockey Houses will allow supporters across the

country to come together to cheer on the Great Britain hockey teams at the Games.Contact the writer


British athletes from London 1948 to receive free tickets for 2012

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunJune 20 - British athletes who competed in the London 1948 Olympic Games, including high jump silver medallist Dorothy Tyler (pictured right with Dame Kelly Holmes), will each be given a free pair of tickets to next year's Games by the British Olympic Association (BOA), it was announced today. 

tickets to the London 2012 Olympics," said John Peake, who won a silver medal in 1948 as part of the hockey



Matryoshka dolls hoping for another Olympic gold medal performance at Sochi 2014

  • Sochi 2014

By Duncan Mackay June 8 - Matryoshka, the traditional Russian wooden doll, is set to be among the official souvenirs for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, it has been revealed, hoping to prove as popular as they did in 1980 when Moscow staged the Summer Games.

Semyonov will also make other souvenirs for the Olympics, including wooden boxing gloves, skates and hockey-sticks