Tickets have gone on sale for the 2009 Modern Pentathlon World Championships, which take place at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London from August 13-17, it was announced today.

Championships to be held in London in an Olympic sport since 1986, when Australia beat England 2-1 in the men's hockey

Tickets have gone on sale for the 2009 Modern Pentathlon World Championships, which take place at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London from August 13-17, it was announced today.

Championships to be held in London in an Olympic sport since 1986, when Australia beat England 2-1 in the men's hockey

May 30 - England Hockey has announced a three match test series against Pakistan to be staged at Chase

Park, the home of Cannock Hockey Club, starting next month.  

The head coach said: “The clash between Pakistan’s Asian style of hockey and England’s European style

I’d like to thank Pakistan for coming and Staffordshire County Council and Cannock Hockey Club for their

The Pakistan matches mark a return for international hockey to Cannock for the first time since August

David Linford, the President of Cannock Hockey Club said: “We are delighted to have been chosen to host

"We are proud of our county and its hockey facility.  

May 30 - England Hockey has announced a three match test series against Pakistan to be staged at Chase

Park, the home of Cannock Hockey Club, starting next month.  

The head coach said: “The clash between Pakistan’s Asian style of hockey and England’s European style

I’d like to thank Pakistan for coming and Staffordshire County Council and Cannock Hockey Club for their

The Pakistan matches mark a return for international hockey to Cannock for the first time since August

David Linford, the President of Cannock Hockey Club said: “We are delighted to have been chosen to host

"We are proud of our county and its hockey facility.  

May 29 - Prince Edward (pictured), the Queen's son, is to visit Vancouver next week to inspect some of the facilities being built for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

visit are the University of British Columbia's (UBC) new C$38.5-million (£21.7 million) Thunderbird Hockey

Arena, which will host ice hockey during the Olympics and sledge hockey during the Paralympics.  

Next Thursday at noon he wil  go to UBC to take in a sledge hockey practice by members of the Canadian

May 23 - Kipchoge Keino (pictured), the godfather of African distance running, has retained his position as President of the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK).  

was re-elected as a committee member alongside John Roberts and Bains who represent the boxing and hockey

May 19 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has restructured its sport performance division in time for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

previous structure, eight winter sports - biathlon, bobsled and skeleton, curling, figure skating, hockey

May 10 - Rene Fasel (pictured), president of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), has denied

said it has just been made aware of the allegations and referred all comments to the International Ice Hockey

  Fasel, 59, a longtime ice hockey referee, has been the president of the IIHF since 1994.

ldquo;We are strong in rowing, triathlon and sailing, we have excellent programmes in both swimming and hockey

    By Adrian Hill - 14 May 2009 As I travelled around the beautiful country of New Zealand recently, I was struck by how sport unites its cosmopolitan society. The nation’s remoteness, in a way, is its strength – a “them against us” syndrome combined with the innate warrior instinct derived from the large Maori and Polynesian population.  

“We are strong in rowing, triathlon and sailing, we have excellent programmes in both swimming and hockey

May 9 - Russia's national ice hockey team has received the status of official ambassador for the 2014

He said: "Russia is a winter sports country, and ice hockey is the number one sport for half of our country

May 8 - Belarus will host the World Ice Hockey Championships in 2014, it was announced today in Bern.

  The former Soviet Union republic won an election of International Ice Hockey Federation (IHF) members

But the executive director of the National Hockey League (NHL) Players' Association would like to see

the IIHF World Hockey Championship held every two years instead of annually.

are significant in Europe but I think the Olympic are more significant and I think the World Cup of Hockey

Swedish ice hockey federation president Christer Englund said: "They should close all the leagues in

May 6 - Spaniard Jose Manuel Brasa (pictured) has been appointed as the new hockey coach of India, the

For a period of time, India's men's field hockey team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning 11

Brasa promised that India would remain true to its tradition of playing attacking hockey, starting with

"Essentially, I am here to share my hockey knowledge.  

"I expect him to take the Indian hockey team to a higher level and I’ve assured him that the Ministry

May 6 - Spaniard Jose Manuel Brasa (pictured) has been appointed as the new hockey coach of India, the

For a period of time, India's men's field hockey team was dominant in Olympic competition, winning 11

Brasa promised that India would remain true to its tradition of playing attacking hockey, starting with

"Essentially, I am here to share my hockey knowledge.  

"I expect him to take the Indian hockey team to a higher level and I’ve assured him that the Ministry

May 4 - Loughborough University will today sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan that will see both organisations working together until the London 2012 Olympic Games, as first reported on insidethegames.

taking place in Berlin in August.Japan have initially indicated that 15 sports, including athletics, hockey