December 14 - British Bobsleigh has vowed to "leave no stone unturned" in its bid for a podium place in the 2014 Winter Olympics after being awarded £2.42 million ($3.81 million) by UK Sport.

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has been illustrated by the case of Loughborough University graduate and England and Great Britain hockey

by the university's Athletes to Business project are helping Smith achieve in his studies and on the hockey

On the sporting front, the hockey facilities are superb and shouldn't be taken for granted."

Being involved with the Loughborough hockey set-up has been brilliant - they put so much on for you,

the field and her demonstration of the Olympic values of friendship, excellence and respect have won hockey

performer for both Great Britain and England this year, competing in a series of test matches against hockey

giants Australia, Germany and China and playing a pivotal role in helping the England hockey women to

Danny Kerry, Great Britain and England Hockey women's head coach, said: "I am delighted for Helen."

the Briton deemed to have been the top performing athlete of year and is selected by Great Britain Hockey

By Mike RowbottomDecember 10 - GB Badminton today revealed its determination to be back challenging for podium places despite suffering a decrease in funding in UK Sport's Annual Investment Review.

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By Mike Rowbottom in LondonDecember 9 - Six increasingly successful summer sports will benefit from a £2.6million ($4.1 million) increase in UK Sport funding over the next 18 months, while two sports - badminton and the Paralympic discipline of goalball - have reduced levels of funding in the annual review figures announced today.

Commenting on the six star summer sports, Nicholl said hockey had increased its potential from one medal

December 6 - Crucial financial backing for local athletes dreaming of competing in the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics has been announced today by Stoke City Football Club.

Athlete Fund.The initiative has the support of Olympic gold medallist Imran Sherwani, the Stoke-on-Trent hockey

December 4 - Grants of £1,000 ($1,600) have been given to four British Olympic hopefuls to help them train and prepare for the London 2012 Games.

Harland, the 2004 Athens modern pentathlon bronze medallist, and Bernie Cotton, who played for Britain's hockey

December 2 - World-renowned ski manufacturer Völkl has joined four other businesses to become the latest "Friends of the Bid" for Munich to host the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

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December 2 -Sports timing company Swiss Timing has been charged by Indian police over alleged kickbacks contained in a contract it won for the Delhi Commonwealth Games, a police statement said.

Union and has also served as the official timekeeper at the World Fencing Championships, the World Hockey

November 30 - Munich will demonstrate its unrivalled capacity for hosting world class winter sports events during the FIS World Cup in January, according to some of the region's leading sporting figureheads.

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By Duncan Mackay in BelgradeBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearNovember 25 - Olympic medallist and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Claudia Bokel is set to bring her wealth of experience to the Munich 2018 Bid Committee.

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By Tom DegunNovember 25 - Boccia Wales head coach Peter Pearse has been crowned Sport Wales Coach of the Year after an outstanding year that saw his performers excel in the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympics.

year-old Rebecca Daniels picked up the Young Coach/Leader of the Year title for her work to spread the hockey

By Tom DegunNovember 25 - Planet Ice and the British Sledge Hockey Association (BSHA) today launched

worth approximately £50,000 ($78,000) per year - to enable the BSHA to launch and operate ice sledge hockey

Ice sledge hockey is a variant of ice hockey played on ice, using sledges to allow participants to move

of operations for the group, added: "We would love to see potential Paralympic champions in sledge hockey

It is clear that sledge hockey is a sport that has a lot to offer - speed, adrenaline, skill and teamwork

November 22 - Munich has strengthened its bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games by becoming an official partner to ice hockey's Deutschland Cup.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Munich 2018 sports ambassadors Rosi Mittermaier, Olympic skiing champion, and former Germany hockey

goaltender Peppi Heiss.Ice hockey is enjoying something of a purple patch in Germany at the moment following

By Tom Degun in Monte CarloNovember 21 - Hugh Robertson, Minister for Sport and the Olympics, has told insidethegames that despite his best efforts to bring as many major sporting events to Britain as possible, the highly competitive nature of international bidding processes means it will sometimes lose out.

pictured) was speaking following London making high-profile yet unsuccessful bids to host both the 2014 Hockey

World Championships and the 2015 World Athletics Championships.London's bid to host the hockey failed

Those two events - the 2014 Hockey World Championships and the 2015 World Athletics Championships - we

In terms of 2014, Holland is simply a hockey powerhouse."

Everybody in Holland plays hockey, as it really is a very big thing for them, and therefore they were