By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 6 - Katarina Witt (pictured) will begin promoting Munich's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics here tomorrow when she skates with Elizabeth Manley, the Canadian who finished second to her at the 1988 Games in Calgary, in a special event.

latest blue-chip firm to sign multi-million pound deal with Munich 2018 January 2010:  Munich ice hockey

By Steven Downes February 3 - This year’s Commonwealth Basketball Championships, due to be staged in New Delhi in August, have been cancelled by the world governing body, FIBA.

There are no plans for the sport to be contested at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where hockey

January 28 - German airline Lufthansa was today announced as the latest multi-million pound sponsor of Munich's bid to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics.

latest blue-chip firm to sign multi-million pound deal with Munich 2018 January 2010:  Munich ice hockey

January 25 - Sushil Kumar (pictured), India's Olympic wrestling bronze medallist, has hit out at the Government after again being overlooked for for the Padma Shri, an award given to honour outstanding achievements by the country's top sportsmen and women.

his Olympic honour, was named alongside cricketer Virender Sehwag, badminton star Saina Nehwal, hockey

By Duncan Mackay January 25 - New Delhi is set to open another of its Commonwealth Games venues next week when the shooting range is due to become officially operational.

promised yesterday, when opening the revamped Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, which is due to host the hockey

Just as Gill had hailed the hockey stadium as the best in the world, he has claimed the shooting facilities

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January 25 - Britain, whose team is set to include skeleton star Shelley Rudman (pictured), has been set a target of achieving its best performance at the Winter Olympics for more than 70 years by winning three medals at next month's Games by UK Sport, the Government agency who distribute National Lottery funding.

in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which were opened by Adolf Hitler, when there was a gold in the ice hockey

January 25 - The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has started to develop a long term strategy for rugby sevens in England at all levels by hosting a pivotal planning forum for over 70 key stakeholders in the game, looking ahead to the inclusion of the sport in the Olympics from 2016.

currently hosted around the country.Presenters at the conference included David Faulkner from England Hockey

January 25 - An impressive 88 per cent of the German public support Munich's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, a new independent survey carried out by global market research firm Ipsos claims.

latest blue-chip firm to sign multi-million pound deal with Munich 2018 January 2010:  Munich ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay January 25 - The hockey World Cup cannot be taken away from India at this late

Leandro Negre, the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), had always claimed that

But a decision by a court in India last week to stay the Hockey India elections on February

"So Hockey India doesn’t really come into the picture directly.

man behind the mockery that hockey in India has become".

Pargat said: "Certain Hockey India officials owing alliance to Kalmadi offered HP

January 24 - The revamped Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, the first venue for this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi to be completed, has been officially opened by India's Sports Minister M.S. Gill (pictured).

The remodelled stadium, which is also scheduled to host the hockey World Cup, which open on

"It is one of the best hockey stadiums in the world.

"It is synonymous with Indian hockey.

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in New Delhi on February 28, have been raised after a court case which could delay the elections of Hockey

India, which was one of the conditions set by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) for the tournament

A Rajasthan High Court has stayed the minutes of a crucial meeting of the national body, which mean Hockey

they will move the World Cup to another country if "free and fair" elections are not held by Hockey

Narendra Batra, the treasurer of Hockey India, said: "We haven't read the case papers yet but

Ever since the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) superseded the Indian Hockey Federation and formed an

  Last May, the IOA laid the foundation for Hockey India, disbanding all the men and women&rsquo

January 20 - Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra (pictured) has been backed in the dispute over how he prepares for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi later this year by Suresh Kalmadi, the President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).

" Kalmadi (pictured) last week successfully mediated in the row between Hockey India and

January 19 - Nigel Holl (pictured), the director of netball with England Netball, has been appointed as the new chief executive of Scottish Athletics, it has been announced today.

Institute of Sport and subsequently employed as a programme manager, has also worked for the England Hockey

Association as director of the English Hockey Network, and for the All England Women’s Hockey

resigned from all his posts, including as treasurer of the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the President of Hockey

Earlier today, Hockey India senior vice president Vidya Stokes said the Executive Board has accepted

was accepted the day Kalmadi gave one million rupees (£12,300)  to India's hockey

" But he admitted that the hockey strike had played a part in his decision to step down.

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to Kalmadi January 2010: FIH vice-president blasts Indian players over strike January 2010: Indian hockey

By Duncan Mackay January 17 - Todd Nicholson (pictured), the captain of Canada's sledge hockey team

Nicholson has been a member of Canada's sledge hockey team since 1991 having become a paraplegic

Eskil Hagen, a member of Norway's sledge hockey team that won the silver medal in Salt Lake City in 2002