"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

  By Tom Degun in New Delhi September 30 – Athletes at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony will march into Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ahead of the display before sitting down to enjoy the entire spectacle for the first time ever.

Kate Walsh, captain of the England women’s hockey team, added: "The opening ceremony will be a

By Tom Degun in New Delhi September 28 - Kumari Selja, the Indian Tourism Minister, has blamed disastrously poor ticket sales for the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games on negative media coverage surrounding the event.

blue-ribbon Commonwealth Games events, such as athletics, are now set to feature vast empty stands, although hockey

Men’s and Women’s ice hockey - At the Magness Arena at Denver University, capacity 8,000

seat Denver Olympic Oval, near the Denver University campus and the home of the DU Pioneers WCHA ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 26 - Milkha Singh, India's best-known athlete, has claimed that officials should stop being dictated to by foreign competitors over conditions in the Athletes Village that has been built for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

night in the accommodation to determine whether conditions were suitable for the 48 athletes from the hockey

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 26 - New Zealand are leading the criticism as the recriminations begin from the problems affecting Delhi's preparations for the Commonwealth Games but in the process have upset the country's former Olympics chief Mike Hooper (pictured left).

team for a week to look at each site," said Maister, who won an Olympic gold as part of New Zealand's hockey

By Tom Degun September 25 - All 71 countries eligible to compete plan to compete at the Commonwealth Games but there remain concerns over the amount of work that still needs to be done in New Delhi, Mike Fennell admitted today.

Members of England’s men’s hockey and lawn bowls teams arrived in Delhi yesterday but are

In the south zone, hockey and synchronised swimming facilities have been completed, along with a 13,000

By Tom Degun September 24 - Major worries earlier this week that the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games may not go ahead due to the appalling condition of the Athlete' Village appear to have subsided as Scotland and New Zealand, who both delayed the arrival of their athletes in India, announced that they will compete in the event.

Members of England’s men’s hockey and lawn bowls teams arrived in Delhi today, where they

By Tom Degun September 23 - Commonwealth Games England and its 17 member sports tonight "unanimously" agreed that they will go to New Delhi for the Commonwealth Games.

The first England team athletes, including he hockey teams, flew out to Delhi tonight.