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

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year May 24 - Bayern Munich may have been beaten by Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League Final on Saturday (May 22) but the 21,000 fans who travelled to Madrid for the match helped the city's bid to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics, officials in Germany have claimed.

That, and the hugely successful World Ice Hockey Championships in Cologne, reinforced

The German ice hockey team narrowly lost to Russia in the semi-finals with over 173,000 fervent German

Bogner, said: "Massive crowds gathered to watch the hockey and football at various live sites, and

" The World Ice Hockey Championships in Germany have seen record attendances, supporting claims

Bogner said: "The IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) World Championships represent

A  keen club cricketer and hockey player he also stayed up for the early-hours Amir Khan fight and

May  5 - British Volleyball have become the latest sport to hire former Daily Telegraph sports editor David Welch (pictured right) to help them maximise the publicity opportunities offered by the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

The company clinched a similar deal with British Hockey last month.

" Related stories April 2010: Hockey appoints former Telegraph sports editor to raise

May 1 - Warnings of new terror attacks in New Delhi ahead of this year's Commonwealth Games have been issued by the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, particularly in markets which are "attractive targets" for terrorist groups.

The run-up to the hockey World Cup in February and March was overshadowed by concern some teams might

Internet Writer of the Year April 29 - Rene Fasel (pictured), the President of the International Ice Hockey

Fasel of kickback claims June 2009: Deloitte to lead inquiry into claims over Fasel May 2009: Ice hockey

April 23 - Barry Maister is to step down as the secretary general of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) to concentrate on his new role as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), he announced today.

Maister, who was part of the New Zealand hockey team that won the Olympic gold medals at Montreal