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

April 18 - Singapore will tomorrow premier a series of television adverts promoting the inaugural Summer Youth Olympic Games as organisers revealed that they have sold 20,000 tickets since they went on sale earlier this month.

up since they went on sale two weeks ago, with swimming, diving, archery, gymnastics, badminton and hockey

April 18 - Pakistan have appointed Khawaja Muhammad Junaid (pictured right) as its new hockey coach

Qasim Zia, the President of the Pakistan Hockey Federation, said: "Appointing a foreign coach

Related stories 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 coach for London

2012 March 2010: Pakistan greats demand sacking of Bajwa after World Cup flop March 2010: Pakistan hockey

GB women’s hockey chose a series of matches against the Olympic silver medalists, China, to launch

When it comes to women’s hockey, it happens to be absolutely true.

By Tom Degun April 15 - Paralympians dominated the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) March Awards, including Alana Nichols (pictured), whose historic victory at the Games in Whistler last month is among those recognised.

Nichols claimed the Female Athlete of the Month, sledge hockey player Steve Cash as Male Athlete

of the Month and the sledge hockey team as Team of the Month.

  His performance helped the US become the first team in Paralympic sledge hockey

The incredible performance secured Cash’s Paralympic sledge hockey team the USOC Team of the Month

April 13 - The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Coordination Commission, led by Jean-Claude Killy, today started its third visit to Sochi to inspect facilities for the 2014 Games.

Ottavio Cinquanta, Rene Fasel and Gian-Franco Kasper, Presidents of the international skating, ice hockey

By Tom Degun April 9 - American television network giant NBC, which is available in an estimated 112 million households, are set to broadcast a 90 minute highlights show on the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games tomorrow.

interviews and competition footage from the Games including the United States gold medal winning sled hockey

April 8 - British Hockey has appointed former Daily Telegraph sports editor David Welch (pictured right

David Welch Management have been engaged by the England Hockey Board (EHB) on behalf of Great Britain

Hockey to enhance the profile of hockey in all branches of the media.

  The deal will see David Welch Management working with the British hockey squads in the build

  David Welch Management will work with the EHB and Great Britain Hockey to uncover stories

  With England hockey’s men being crowned European champions in 2009 and semi-finalists

In fact, when I was at the UBC Thunderbird Arena in Vancouver to watch the ice sledge hockey games, there

And this carried into the streets of Canada, as I saw photos taken of children playing ice sledge hockey

April 5 - Irek Zaripov (pictured), who won four gold and one silver medal at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, has become an official Ambassador for Sochi 2014, it has been announced.

joins a group of Ambassadors that includes six-time Paralympic champion Sergey Shilov, Russian ice hockey