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

By Duncan Mackay in London British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 20 -  Britain should not take finishing among the top four countries in the medals table at the London 2012 Olympics for granted, they were warned today as a new report claimed that sport in this country had never been in a better position to succeed.

recent spate of firsts in Olympic sports over the past couple of months with the women’s hockey

July 18 - Goals by Susie Gilbert and Crista Cullen (pictured) saw England come from behind to beat Germany 2-1 in the bronze medal play-off at the Champions Trophy in Nottingham today.

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July 17 - England's women hockey players missed out on a place in the Champions Trophy final after

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 15 - Annecy today revealed their new plan to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which they claim is more compact and meets the requirements of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

All of the Alpine skiing competitions and the ice hockey events will be held in at the foot of Mont Blanc

include road cycling, combined with the existing programme of athletics, badminton, fencing, gymnastics, hockey

July 12 - Two players from Britain's hockey team that finished third in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki

Richard Leman, himself an Olympic gold medal winner from 1988 and now the President of Great Britain Hockey

Leman said: "Everyone involved with Great Britain Hockey is delighted that we have been able