January 22 - The England Hockey Board (EHB) has been named Governing Body of the Year for its "trailblazing

EHB has launched a series of interactive coaching DVDs and, working closely with the other British hockey

EHB's commitment to coach development has contributed to recent podium successes, including the England hockey

It is great to see that in a sport the size of hockey, the EHB can have so much impact on its coaching

personally delighted that an independent body has recognised the work that the NGB and our volunteers in hockey

January 22 - The head of Sport Event Denmark has hailed his country's success at attracting major events, calling 2011 the greatest year yet.

events.Denmark will find out in the coming months if it has won the rights to host the A-World Ice Hockey

January 20 - Valuable lessons can be learned from London's preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games by companies looking to capitalise on Qatar's infrastructure spending spree for the 2022 World Cup.

over half of the total capacity, can be dismantled after the Games.In addition, the basketball and hockey

By Tom Degun in ChristchurchJanuary 18 - Leading sports administrator Kereyn Smith (pictured) has taken up her role as secretary general of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) and become the first woman to lead the organisation in its 100-year history.

country.Meanwhile Barry Maister, Smith's predecessor as NZOC secretary general and a former international hockey

Olympic Association, Ireland's Pat McQuaid, the President of the UCI, and American gold medal-winning ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 18 - Russia are planning to spend a massive 90 billion rubles (£2 billion/$3 billion) on developing sports in the country in the build-up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced.

Novogorsk training centre on the outskirts of Moscow where he met members of Russia's national junior hockey

team, who recently won the World Junior Championships.He also met Russia's women's junior hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 16 - Dan Bentley (pictured) has revealed he hopes becoming a sporting ambassador for Essex for the second time will help him win gold at the London 2012 Paralympics - just as it did at in Beijing.

Bentley follows in the footsteps of Dunmow hockey player Chloe Rogers, who was also registered as one

By Tom DegunJanuary 14 - Tariq Mustafa (pictured), President of Pakistan's National Paralympics Committee (PNPC) has called on his country's Government and the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) to give more respect and recognition to the country's Paralympians following their performance at the recent Asian Para Games.

However, while the able-bodied squash team, hockey players and others continue to be rewarded, we remain

By Tom DegunJanuary 13 - The Austrian city of Innsbruck is today celebrating the one year to go mark in the countdown to the first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games.

edition, with the young athletes set to compete in the seven sports of biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey

mixed relay, the luge team relay, ski half pipe, snowboard slope style, figure skating team event, ice hockey

January 13 - England Hockey will use the 25th Leipzig Messestadt Cup in Germany next weekend for a final

coach Andy Halliday said: "The indoor game is ideal for developing many of the core skills of outdoor hockey

The England Hockey women will also be competing in the Leipzig Messestadt Cup.

By Tom DegunJanuary 11 - Britain's Richard Whitehead (pictured) is on collision course for a legal battle with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after it refused to accept his entry for the T46 marathon at this month's Athletics World Championships in New Zealand.

Nottinghamshire athlete, who represented Britain at the Turin 2006 Winter Paralympic Games in ice sledge hockey

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 11 - Munich are promising to provide a unique moment in Olympic history if their bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics is successful after handing in their Candidate File at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne today.

Schwank, the chief executive, handed over and were joined by Marcus Weber, a gifted young German ice hockey

January 7 - Six England players and a coach have been named in the International Hockey Federation (FIH

Reading's Helen Richardson, the GB Hockey Athlete of the Year, Leicester's Crista Cullen and Reading

2010 All Star team.The teams, which feature a total of 36 players and four coaches who have lit up the hockey

their achievements over the past 12 months, were compiled using the recommendations and opinions of hockey

By David OwenJanuary 6 - The Vancouver Winter Olympics were one of very few events to challenge the National Football League's (NFL) dominance of a new table outlining the United States's most-viewed sports events of 2010.

audience of 106.5 million.A total of 18 Olympic broadcasts made the list, with the Canada v USA men's ice-hockey

January 5 - Four new specialists have been appointed to help prepare Canada's athletes both physically and mentally for the London 2012 Olympics.

Rangers, New York Knicks and the Columbus Blue Jackets.For 12 years, she has worked with Canada's women's hockey

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearJanuary 2- India's Government has set its team a target of winning 12 medals at next year's London Olympics - four times more than they claimed at Beijing in 2008, which itself was their best-ever performance.

Paris in 1900 it has only ever won a total of 20 medals, nine of them gold.Eight of them have come in hockey

We are targeting three golds in London in 2012," said Viren Rasquinha, the former India hockey captain