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

August 4 - Ghana's boys hockey team have become the first foreign team to arrive in Singapore for the

Ghana received a low-key welcome and met only by two Singapore Hockey Federation (SHF) officials, who

" The Games will feature athletes aged between 14 to 18 years and the hockey competition is for

August 3 - Ten members of the gold medal-winning 2010 United States Paralympic sledge hockey

By Cathy Wood As one of the fastest sprinters in world swimming the last thing you want, when you’re already in the spotlight, is an embarrassing scene from your mother. For 20-year-old Fran Halsall, the cringe making moment came last summer, at Swimming’s World Championships in Rome, just after the then 19-year-old had won silver in the 100 metres freestyle. For Mum, Diane, a civil servant from Southport, it was all too much. She began to blub.

Halsall does intend to see in Delhi though is boyfriend Alastair Wilson who’s in the Great Britain Hockey

August 1 - Para-snowboard has moved a step closer to being included in the Paralympics after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and World Snowboard Federation (WSF) signed a new agreement.

additional events and said he expected to receive submissions from groups championing snowboarding, standing hockey

July 31 - Indian cricket officials have turned down a request from the Commonwealth Games organisers in New Delhi for a grant of $21 million (£14 million).

Cricket attracts a passionate following in India and organisers of the hockey World Cup in New Delhi

July 31 - Australia thrased closest rivals New Zealand 9-1 as the Champions Trophy opened in Moenchengladbach while England went down 4-2 to Germany.

"We were lethargic and sluggish and it looked like some of them had not actually played hockey before

He looks at me and says, ‘Were you on the 1980 hockey team?’

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 29 - British Prime Minister David Cameron today praised India's National Stadium, a key venue for this year's Commonwealth Games, as "world-class" after leading a delegation there that included Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes.

The National Stadium was venue of the World Hockey Cup in February this year and will hold matches during

July 27 - A husband and wife hoping to compete in the Paralympics have helped lauch a set of commemorative stamps ahead of London 2012.

Other stamps in the set, dubbed On Track for 2012, feature Olympic sports including hockey, football