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.

to back 2018 Olympic bidNovember 2010: Celebrations on ice as Munich 2018 partners prestigious ice hockey

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.

to back 2018 Olympic bidNovember 2010: Celebrations on ice as Munich 2018 partners prestigious ice hockey

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.

back 2018 Olympic bidNovember 2010: Celebrations on ice as Munich 2018 partners prestigious ice hockey

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

By Tom DegunNovember 21 - Olympic gold medallist and world record-holding swimmer Kirsty Coventry (pictured) has achieved a long-standing ambition by visiting the city which shares her name.

I was due to come here when I was a teenager but dislocated my knee playing hockey a couple of weeks

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearNovember 17 - Copenhagen has won the right to host the World Archery Championships 2015, adding it to its growing portfolio of major events Denmark is due to stage over the next few years.

Denmark is bidding for several other prestigious international sports events, including the World Ice Hockey

I have competed in numerous sports over the years ranging from gymnastics to ice sledge hockey - I was

November 15 - British hockey supporters are being given an outstanding once in a lifetime opportunity

to get pitchside at the London 2012 Olympic Games as Great Britain Hockey launches an exclusive hunt

to the final 36.Jeremy Evans, the National Manager for 2012 Activities & Events at Great Britain Hockey

With less than two years to go until the London Olympic Games this is an incredibly exciting time for hockey

"The Olympic hockey tournament is set to be one of the most exciting and most watched sports in London

Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearNovember 11 - London's bid to host the 2014 Hockey

The decision, taken by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) at its Congress and Forum in Montreux

, to award the event to The Hague stunned the England Hockey Board.The bid, which was developed with

"We felt that our focus on the legacy for hockey in this country and the commercial package that we put

"Hockey is huge in the Netherlands, they have great experience in hosting world level events and I am

: Exclusive - British boxing promoter behind Olympic Park hockey World Cup bid

Internet Writer of the YearNovember 10 - London will find out tomorrow whether its bid to host the 2014 Hockey

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) are due to pick the host at its Congress and Forum in

1998, when it was staged in Utrecht.London's bid is the favourite.It has been developed by the England Hockey

opportunity afforded to sport by the London 2012 Olympics and, with 630,000 spectators set to attend hockey

If successful, it will be only the second time that both the men's and women's hockey World Cups have

2014 World Cup bidOctober 2010: Exclusive - British boxing promoter behind Olympic Park hockey World