By Duncan MackayMarch 21 - Hambantota have unveiled a large-scale model of its proposed Sports City which will host many of the events if their bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games in successful.

matches last month.It also incorporates an athletics stadium with full warm-up and training facilities, a hockey

By Tom DegunMarch 21 – The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) have celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games Closing Ceremony by announcing 2011 Para-Equipment Fund (PEF) recipients.

the PEF was received by athletes and representatives of the Ottawa Odyssey Boccia Club and the Sledge Hockey

Paralympic Winter Games medallist in Para-alpine skiing Karolina Wisniewska and 2010 national sledge hockey

By Tom Degun in LondonMarch 16 - Baroness Margaret Ford (pictured), chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), has warned it is inconceivable for Leyton Orient to be allowed to move to Eton Manor after the London 2012 Games.

Manor facilities, run by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, will be able to accommodate elite hockey

There are options such as moving into the hockey stadium or building a new venue at Eton Manor playing

By Tom Degun in BarcelonaMarch 10 – One out of every ten UK sports fans will not follow the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to a new survey.

like to watch in 3D TV, gymnastics got the top slot with swimming, sprint events, diving and field hockey

March 10 - Oceania has kept its second quota allocation place for the men's hockey tournament at the

In November 2010, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced a second allocation would be

By Tom DegunMarch 9 - Members of Britain's wheelchair tennis team, including double Paralympic gold medallist Peter Norfolk (pictured), have visited the London 2012 venue at Eton Manor to inspect its progress.

swimming pool and a water polo pool.After the Paralympics it will be transformed into a 15,000-capacity hockey

The hockey centre will be of national standing, hosting international competitions alongside a comprehensive

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearMarch 6 - Leyton Orient would be prepared to drop their threatened legal action over West Ham United's proposed move to the Olympic Stadium if they allowed to move to Eton Manor after London 2012, the club's chairman Barry Hearn has revealed.

local and regional communities, including a tennis centre with four indoor and six outdoor courts, a hockey

competition pitches and five-a-side football pitches.The facilities will be able to accommodate elite hockey

There are options such as moving into the hockey stadium or building a new venue at Eton Manor playing

By Tom DegunFebruary 25 - Barry Hearn (pictured), the chairman of Leyton Orient, has revealed he will be requesting the assistance of West Ham United and the Premier League to help his club build a new 15,000-seater stadium at nearby Eton Manor on the Olympic Park, in return for not disrupting the handover of the London 2012 Stadium with legal challenges.

local and regional communities, including a tennis centre with four indoor and six outdoor courts, a hockey

The facilities will be able to accommodate elite hockey events for up to 15,000 spectators."

By Tom Degun February 24 - Winter Paralympic icon Lauren Woolstencroft has added yet another major prize to her enormous collection as she claimed Sport British Columbia's Best of BC Award at a glittering ceremony in the City of Richmond.  

Maelle Ricker of West Vancouver, Olympic ski cross gold-medallist Ashleigh McIvor of Whistler, Olympic hockey

February 22 - The British Olympic Association's (BOA's) sport engagement team is now complete following the recent addition of seven new team members, including former runner Alison Wyeth (pictured), who competed in the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games.

medal in the modern pentathlon at Athens in 2004, and] Bernie Cotton, who played for Britain's hockey

February 19 - The Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) has formalised its plans to use K2 Crawley leisure centre as its pre-Games training camp before London 2012 following the initial agreement reached a year ago.

with the BOA and they've already used our facilities, and others in the area, for their netball and
 hockey

February 19 - Anthony Bartkowski has been appointed as the new executive director of USA Boxing, it has been announced.

Following a short time at USA Hockey, the fourth national governing body on Bartkowski's extensive resume

By Duncan Mackay in Pyeongchang British Sports Internet Writer of the Year February 18 - If Pyeongchang is chosen to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics it could help bring peace to Korea and even lead to a united team competing in the Games for the first time in history, the country's Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik has claimed during a visit here today.

East Sea, where five ice stadiums for speed skating, figure skating and short track, curling and ice hockey

By Tom Degun February 18 - Chelsea and England midfield star Frank Lampard has revealed that he wants to be selected to complete for Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

"I'm not a big hockey watcher but come the Olympics I'll be watching it, especially when the Great

February 15 - An exhibition about the 1936 Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen opened today in the mountain resort, designed to help visitors from Germany and around the world learn lessons from the past and help ensure that history will never be repeated.

team, but only one Jewish athlete represented the country - Rudi Ball, who was a member of the ice hockey