October 18 - British Weight Lifting has appointed a media consultancy to increase its profile and promote the sport in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics.

" Snowdon Sports already provides media services to England Hockey, the Rugby Football Union

Why hockey, we asked? "Why not," he countered?

After the job he's done in getting Chisora a world title fight we can't wait to see him hype up hockey

By Katy Anderson "It’s a silver car for a silver medal - the only car in Bath to go through the gates of Buckingham Palace!,” claims Ben Rushgrove. He is, of course, referring to his podium finish in the Beijing Paralympic Games in 2008 in the T36 100m which, along with other members of Team GB, was rewarded with a visit to the Queen’s official residence. Rushgrove says medals alone don’t motivate him but with just two months to go until the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, such an achievement is surely on his mind?

range of sports at school and regularly helped out in a coaching and management role with football and hockey

October 12 - Frank Warren, one of Britain's top boxing promoters, is to help launch a bid to host the hockey

Officials behind the bid, which also includes the England Hockey Board (EHB), VisitLondon and UK Sport

Under plans announced by London 2012 during the bid, the main hockey stadium will be a temporary venue

By Duncan Mackay in Sochi British Sports Internet Writer of the Year October 12 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is due to fly into here to meet the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission led by Jean-Claude Killy who are beginning their fourth visit to inspect preparations for the 2014 Olympics and Paralympics.

Olympic Committee, and toured the Olympic Park where the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the venue for the ice hockey

October 12 - Discussions on how to increase participation in ice sledge hockey will be top of the agenda

The Sport Technical Committee for the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey will discuss at the meeting

In 1981, Britain established their first sledge hockey team, and that was shortly followed by Canada

It was not until 1990 that the United States developed their first ice sledge hockey team and sledge

hockey continued to expand when Estonia and Japan developed their teams in 1993.

For the first time in Vancouver earlier this year, women were allowed to compete in ice sledge hockey

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year October 11 - Olympic modern pentathlon bronze medallist Georgina Harland has joined the British Olympic Association (BOA) as one of its new sport engagement team, who will be headed by Tanya Crook, it was announced today. 

the 2004 Games in Athens, joins fellow Olympian Bernie Cotton, who coached Britain's hockey

By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 8 - Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot has dismissed ticketing and empty seat problems - claiming that 900,000 of a possible 1.7 million tickets have now been sold.

“Reports say there are good crowds at the hockey, tennis, wrestling, boxing, swimming, athletics

"I played netball at school and hockey at university.

"I played netball at school and hockey at university.

October 5 - A multi-million pound upgrade at Lilleshall National Sports Centre has created a state-of-the-art training facility for Britain’s London 2012 athletes.

Competitors such as archers, gymnasts and hockey players now have the chance to steal a lead on

will face at the Games New training equipment in the gymnastics hall Two new floodlit artificial hockey

One pitch will be used for elite hockey and the other for community games Improvements to the strength

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year October 4 - Annecy 2018 today unveiled its new masterplan to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics at a press conference in Paris, a concept which is backed by Jean Claude Killy, chief executive Edgar Grospiron claimed.

Chamonix, meanwhile, will be the home for ice hockey and alpine skiing.

By Tom Degun in New Delhi   October 4 – The official weigh-in for the Commonwealth Games boxing competition has been put back until tomorrow after complaints the test scales were faulty.

the lack of spectators, with glaringly empty seats already seen at the swimming, netball, tennis and hockey

By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 1 - Badminton player Nathan Robertson has been chosen to carry England’s flag at the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony here on Sunday (October 3) as the top nations have started revealing their flag bearers.

Ken Pereira, the 37-year-old field hockey player of Indian origin, will carry the flag for Canada while

September 30 - Careering down a roaring water course on a tiny raft has to be the ultimate adrenalin-pumping experience and now schoolchildren are being given the chance to try it out free - before London 2012’s Olympic athletes get to have a go.

Regional Park Authority will run after the Games, including the Lee Valley VeloPark and Lee Valley hockey