England will face Australia in the pool stages of the rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New

England were beaten 29-21 in the Melbourne final four years ago when New Zealand claimed their third

" Top seeds New Zealand are in Pool A, where they will face opening matches against World Series

IRB Sevens World Series champions Samoa top Pool C and take on Kenya, Uganda and Papua New Guinea.

and continues to attract some of the world's top players, delivering exciting matches and attracting new

year we are particularly excited that the event is being held in India, where rugby is reaching out to new

England take on Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, China and New Zealand.

June 28 - New Zealand's Government has put up nearly NZ$1 million (£471,000) so that Auckland

will start from Queens Wharf, with the run and cycle legs raced over a city circuit, and Triathlon New

Zealand (TNZ) chief executive Dave Beeche is confident that the likes of Brownlee will turn-up

Zealand to host and deliver the grand final in October 2012, and an associated test event which will

Zealand to international audiences.

Related stories March 2010: New Zealand Government rejects Auckland Commonwealth Games bid

June 27 - Paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall (pictured) has been voted the joint winner of the New

Zealand Snow Sports Athlete of the Year award.

The 22-year-old won the stand-up slalom at the Paralympics in Vancouver in March, New Zealand's

Picking a winner was “one of the hardest decisions we’ve ever had to make”, Snow Sports New

 Zealand boss Ross Palmer claimed.

" Related stories June 2010: New Zealand Paralympic champion inducted into Hall of Fame

April 2010: Hall feted at reception organised by his mother April 2010: New Zealand Paralympic gold

June 20 - Olympic gold medallists Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase (pictured) headed a five-gold medal performance from Britain's rowers with an unexpected comeback win at the World Cup event in Munich.

year, the pair found something extra over the last 250 metres to win in 6min 26.56sec from the New

Zealand crew.

Bateman and Wells, a new combination this year, held off the French pair Cedric Berrest and Julien Bahain

June 12 - New Zealand sport is to receive an extra unprecedented $45 million (£21 million)

institute within its sport funding body, Sport & Recreation New Zealand (SPARC).

Barry Maister - the secretary general of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) and 

Canoe Racing New Zealand will move its high performance base to Lake Karapiro, where it will share facilities

" Maister hopes that the money will help New Zealand close the gap on some of its rivals.

"Sports infrastructure in New Zealand was really in danger of becoming a sad case.

Beijing Olympic gold medalist and world women's shot put champion Valerie Vili (pictured) will lead New

Zealand's initial athletics contingent for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

The 26-year-old holds the New Zealand, Oceanian and Commonwealth records for the shot put with

The New Zealand contingent for the Games, which are due to open on October 3, also includes Nick Willis

Barry Maister, the secretary general of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC), said: "This year

By Tom Degun June 5 -  Britain’s Shelly Woods (pictured) has told insideworldparasport that she is already planning her schedule in order to peak at the London 2012 Paralympics where she hopes to add a gold medal to the silver and bronze she picked up at the Beijing 2008 Games.

" Woods also revealed that ahead of London, the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in New

Zealand are a big goal for her in preparation for the Paralympics.

the rest of this summer on the track and then probably do a few autumn marathons, maybe Chicago and New

"After that, I will just focus on getting myself into the best possible form for New Zealand before

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year June 2 - India's controversial decision to boycott the cricket tournament at the Asian Games is proof of how commericalised the sport has become and why it should never be part of the Olympics, it has been claimed by the country's leading sports administrator, Suresh Kalmadi (pictured).

take place between November 12 and 27, because they are already committed to a Test series against New

Zealand.

growing clamour for Twenty20 cricket to push for inclusion in the Olympics for 2020, especially with New

Kalmadi, who is also the chairman of the organising committee for this year's Commonwealth Games in New

June 1 - New Zealand's Paralympic gold medallist Adam Hall (pictured) has become the first person

to be inducted into Wanaka's new Hall of Fame.

" Hall, who has spina bifida, won New Zealand's first Winter Paralympics gold medal in the since

family, paying tribute to his mother Gail who was killed in a car accident shortly after he returned to New

Zealand from Vancouver.

Related stories April 2010: Hall feted at reception organised by his mother April 2010: New Zealand

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year June 1 - India's decision not to send a cricket team to this year's Asian Games has been criticised as a "setback" for the future of the sport in the region.

send either men or women's teams because of prior commitments, including hosting a Test series against New

Zealand that month.

May 30 - Britain finished as the top nation at the rowing World Cup, claiming six gold medals on an outstanding day that saw 38-year-old veteran Greg Searle (pictured) grab the headlines.

who had also competed as part of the eight, and Andrew Triggs Hodge were pipped in the pair by New

"Training has been adjusted this year to account for the fact that the New Zealand World Rowing

By Tom Degun in Manchester May 28 - The BT Paralympic World Cup provided the perfect opportunity to look at athletes, including Stephen Miller (pictured), hoping to compete in the IPC World Championships in Christchurch next year, UK Athletics head coach Peter Eriksson has claimed.

"Right now, we are looking at selection for the 2011 IPC World Championships in New Zealand and

May 23 - Britain's Danny Greaves (pictured) and Hannah Cockcroft warmed-up for the BT Paralympic World Cup later this year with world records today.

; the 2004 Paralympic discus champion, who was born with a foot deformity, threw 57.14 metres for a new

Wheelchair racer Cockcroft, 17, set a new mark in the T34 400 metres.

his impressive opening-round throw which beat the qualifying standard for the World Championships in New

Zealand next January.

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 19 - Russia will host the next Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2013, three years before the sport returns to the Olympics.

biggest rugby tournament to be staged by Russia, which also makes its debut at the 15-man World Cup in New

Zealand next year.