By Duncan Mackay in Lausanne British Sports Internet Writer of the Year June 22 - Sir Clive Woodward (pictured), the coach of England's 2003 World Cup winning rugby side, has been selected to join the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) newly formed Entourage Commission as a representative of the 205 National Olympic Committees, it was announced today.

Montreal 110 metres hurdles champion, and America's Angela Ruggiero, who has won four medals in ice hockey

June 22 - Construction is now underway on the historic Eton Manor site, marking the start of work on all Olympic Park permanent venues, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has today announced.

After the Games, the permanent facilities will be transformed into a hockey centre with two competition

"The hockey centre will be of national standing, hosting international competitions alongside a

"Along with the hockey and tennis centres, Lee Valley Regional Park Authority will own and manage

Welcome to the England Hockey men’s team blog.

I’m Jonty Clarke and have been playing senior international hockey since 2003.

Nottingham is home to Ali Wilson, Adam Dixon and George Pinner, who all play for Beeston Hockey Club,

As an accountant, I work for BDO, who have supported me through the last five years of my hockey career

Clarke represented Britain at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and has been capped 28 times by GB British Hockey

June 20 - Dutchman Michel van Den Heuvel's appointment as the new coach of Pakistan's hockey team for

won the Olympic silver medal at Munich in 1972 and bronze Montreal in 1976, claimed that the Pakistan Hockey

if the federation hires a full-time European coach, it shows that the team will start playing drill hockey

" Related stories June 2010: Dutchman appointed to lead Pakistan hockey team for London

after foreign coaches fear over security April 2010: Pakistan open talks with Lissek to take over hockey

team March 2010: Pakistan target Lissek to be new coach March 2010: Pakistan hockey looking for foreign

June 19 - Dutchman Michel van den Heuvel (pictured) has been appointed as Pakistan's new hockey

The flop prompted the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) to sack coach Shahid Ali Khan amid furious criticism

bronze medal in the New Delhi World Cup before leaving in April over differences with the Netherlands Hockey

Pakistan’s hockey team will tour Spain next month before competing in October’s Commonwealth

after foreign coaches fear over security April 2010: Pakistan open talks with Lissek to take over hockey

team March 2010: Pakistan target Lissek to be new coach March 2010: Pakistan hockey looking for foreign

By Mike Rowbottom June 18 - Plans are afoot to set up British Triathlon along the same lines that have created such success for cycling and rowing by centralising their operation in the High Performance Centre at Loughborough University.

" UK Sport has been closely monitoring the set-ups with both triathlon and hockey to see whether

By Mike Rowbottom Graham Taylor didn’t get where he is today - UK Sport’s recently appointed Head of Coaching - by being imprecise. Before being annexed by the man to whom he will be reporting, UK Sport’s director of Performance, Peter Keen, Taylor had more than 20 years of experience in top class motor sport, much of it as a race engineer in Formula One and World Touring Cars.

already getting good vibrations from a number of sports: for instance, slalom canoeing, gymnastics, hockey

June 13 - A week after going on sale, 16,000 out of 1.7 million tickets have so far been sold for the Commonwealth Games, which open in New Delhi on October 3, organisers have announced.

Tickets hockey, gymnastics, tennis and athletics are also proving popular for the Games, which last until

"Most of these have been sold for events like hockey, gymnastics, tennis and athletics, besides

By Duncan Mackay in Sochi British Sports Internet Writer of the Year June 7 - Russian athletes preparing to compete in the Sochi Olympics in 2014, where they have already been warned they must finish top of the medals table, will have new state-of-the-art facilities built to help their preparations, the country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko promised today.

Moscow, would also be expanded, to include facilities for short track speed skating, figure skating, hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Sochi British Sports Internet Writer of the Year June 6 - Jacques Rogge, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), today visited the Olympic Park here on the eve of the official Debriefing of the Vancouver 2010 Games that will discuss what lessons Sochi can learn from Canada.

in constructing the Bolshoi Ice Palace, a 12,000 multi-purpose arena, which is due to host the ice hockey

He was also shown the design of the Maly Ice Palace, a smaller venue also due to host ice hockey, as

By Tom Degun June 2 - Adam Pengilly (pictured) has promised that he will ensure athletes are at the heart of all key decisions after becoming the fourth Briton to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Pengilly was elected with 615 votes by his peers, along with the United States ice hockey gold medallist

 We are playing in the fantastic Arena Riga which hosts Ice hockey and major international music

"I played roller-hockey at university and read about London Rollergirls in Time Out.

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 27 - The 2018 Commonwealth Games will take place in mid-October if the Gold Coast are awarded the event and will include basketball, triathlon and wrestling, it has been announced.

of every Commonwealth Games, along with diving, synchronised swimming, badminton, boxing, hockey

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 24 - Former England rugby union captain Martin Corry (pictured) and Premier League footballer Clarke Carlisle are among ten sportsmen and women appointed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) to a newly-formed Athlete Committee.

includes Graham Edmunds, double Paralympic swimming champion; Chloe Rogers, who represented Britain's hockey