By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 13 - Sweden's Gunilla Lindberg (pictured) will be head of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Evaluation Commission that will assess the three cities bidding to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, it was announced today.

members of the panel will be newly-elected IOC members America's Angela Ruggiero, a four-time Olympic ice hockey

IOC Athletes Commission representative, and New Zealand's Barry Maister, who won a gold medal in hockey

September 11 - England's women's hockey team celebrated their first World Cup women's bronze medal

September 10 - A number of new key appointments were announced today by Jean Dupré, the chief executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), including the promotion of Carla Anderson to become director of team operations, as they begin planning to try to build on the success of Vancouver.

Healy (pictured), a former Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) ice hockey player, arrives from Hockey

Canada, where for the past eight years she has held the position of director, female hockey.

would not go to Moscow and the July, 1979 announcement on an OTC bulletin board naming the 25 ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 8 - Suggestions have begun to pour in for what should be the mascot for the Sochi 2014 Olympics and Paralympics following the launch last week of the nationwide public competition to pick a suitable choice.

"A happy sheep with a hockey stick or on a snowboard.

By Mike Rowbottom For 1,600 young athletes, this weekend is going to be unforgettable - and in some cases, invaluable. The 2010 Sainsbury’s UK School Games which are being held in Gateshead, Newcastle and Sunderland until Sunday, offer a generation of aspiring competitors the opportunity to experience the big time, and the instruction they might need to make that big time themselves at some point in the future. The Games kicked off with an opening ceremony at Gateshead Stadium hosted by BBC Sport presenter Jill Douglas, who was joined on stage by Winter Olympic bob skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams. Also in...

replicate a major multi-sports event, involving cycling, athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey

September 3 - The Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games will not be held in the same year from 2018, it was confirmed today.

"Besides the Commonwealth Games, there is the World Cup football, World Cup hockey and also the

Olympic silver medallists China 1-0 with a first-minute goal for their second victory at the women's hockey

August 30 - USA Triathlon announced today that Skip Gilbert, who led the campaign that ultimately led to Stephanie Streeter being forced to leave as head of the United States Olympic Committee  (USOC), is to step down as its chief executive.

role he also held for six months in 2004 after the resignation of Steven Locke, now USA Field Hockey

August 16 - The Commonwealth Games organisers have taken over most of the competition venues for the event and expect all the stadiums to be "Games ready" by August 25 - just nine days away, they claimed today.

Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi have spent the last week visiting the Major Dhyan Chand National Hockey

nbsp;is to succeed the retiring Christophe Troendle as the new chief executive of the International Hockey

quot; Leandro Negre, the President of the FIH, who are based in Lausanne, claimed the world hockey

will descend upon North East England to compete in cycling, athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey

will descend upon North East England to compete in cycling, athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey

August 8 - England suffered a 4-0 defeat to Australia in the final of the Champions Trophy at the HockeyPark in Moengladbach as the winners lifted the trophy for the third consecutive year.

The England Hockey assistant coach Bobby Crutchley took plenty of positives from England's best

England Hockey called it "the greatest performance since winning Olympic gold in Seoul in 1988"

August 7 - England's hockey team reached their first Champions Trophy final today thanks to a last-gasp