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

By David GoldJune 27 - Russia will compete in ice sledge hockey for the first time since the sport became

and Megafon's support for Russia's national Paralympic team and for Russia's first ever ice sledge hockey

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

, 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

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

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

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

By Duncan Mackay in LondonJune 17 - Nearly two thirds of the 1.9 million people who applied for London 2012 Olympics tickets missed out in the first round of sales, it has been revealed today.

sports were there is a good is good availability is basketball prelminaries, boxing, canoe sprint, hockey

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

GoldJune 4 - United States coach Lee Bodimeade has announced his squad for the 2011 women's national hockey

By Tom DegunJune 3 - More than 50 athlete hopefuls from across Britain have participated in the latest Paralympic Potential Day to unearth hidden disabled talent at the Surrey Sports Park at the University of Surrey.

athletics, wheelchair basketball, swimming, powerlifting, wheelchair fencing, sitting volleyball, sledge hockey

By David GoldJune 1 - British rider Annie Last led a masterclass in mountain biking for a group of aspiring young champions at Wharncliffe and Wheata woods near Sheffield, the venue for the 2011 Sainsbury's UK School Games mountain bike event.

of sports is as follows; cycling (mountain biking), athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey

By Mike RowbottomJune 1 - More than 250,000 people who applied for London 2012 tickets, including triple Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins and the Mayor Boris Johnson, have missed out entirely after the vast majority of money was taken from accounts at midnight last night.

Sports where tickets will still be available include football, volleyball, handball, basketball and hockey

We have serious intent to go even better than we did last year when the England women's hockey team won

Both countries take their hockey very seriously. The atmosphere will be amazing.

full-back, made her international debut in 2003 and has since been capped 43 times by GBGreat Britain Hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Kuala LumpurMay 13 - Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke has claimed that his city would fit perfectly the ethos of the Commonwealth Games if their bid to host them in 2018 is successful.

of the men's and women's basketball.The remaining events such as wrestling, boxing, weightlifting, hockey

will also be done to Runaway Bay Indoor Sports Centre for squash and weightlifting, the Gold Coast Hockey