Leandro Negre (pictured) has replaced Els van Breda Vriesman as the new president of the International Hockey

  Negre, who was the president of the European Hockey Federation, will hold the office for a term

The 62-year-old Negre is credited with helping create the Euro Hockey League.  

"I would also like to thank Els van Breda Vriesman for the excellent work she did for hockey."  

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

been invested and 19 sports or disciplines have received funding increases, including basketball and hockey

million)   Equestrian £13.6 million (£11.7 million)   Gymnastics £10.3 million (£9.0 million)   Hockey

  ATHLETICS, whose only gold medallist at the Beijing Olympics was Christine Ohuruogu (pictured), has had its funding cut by UK Sport for the 2012 Olympics.

been invested and 19 sports or disciplines have received funding increases, including basketball and hockey

million)   Equestrian £13.6 million (£11.7 million)   Gymnastics £10.3 million (£9.0 million)   Hockey

OCTOBER 23 - INDIA announced today that it plans to invest R678 billion (£8.4 million) to try to help its country's sportsmen and women be successful at London 2012.

Helsinki Games where freestyle wrestler Kashabha Jadhav took bronze alongside the victorious men's hockey

  OCTOBER 23 - VANCOUVER organisers were told today that preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics were progressing well but they admitted they would be re-examining their budget to see if they could save money.

Rene Fasel, the International Ice Hockey Federation president from Switzerland who chairs the IOC group

Chris Spice (pictured) is tomorrow expected to be named as the new coach of the Australian women's hockey

Spice, the son of Brisbane valuator in antique furniture and a former Australian hockey international

By then Spice had been recruited by British Hockey to prepare them for Sydney but admitted that it was

After a disappointing fifth placing at Beijing, incumbent coach Frank Murray said he would stay if Hockey

  SEPTEMBER 26 - THE Princess Royal has officially launched a new trust in Northern Ireland named after Dame Mary Peters, the 1972 Olympic pentathlon champion.

Among those present were Jim Kirkwood, a member of the British hockey team that won the Olympic medal

  SEPTEMBER 16 - BRIAN ASHTON (pictured), who guided England's Rugby World Cup final last year, is to become director of coaching at the University of Bath, it was announced today.

the Olympic and/or Paralympic sports of modern pentathlon, judo, bob-skeleton, bobsleigh, badminton, hockey

16 - PAKISTAN today unveiled a new plan that they hope will see them win the gold medal in the men's hockey

A four-year plan has now been launched by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) that will include hiring

Asif Bajwa, the secretary of the PHF, said: “Pakistan Hockey is at its worst.  

supported ad-hocism and worked to get the results immediately and now we can see the position of Pakistan hockey

won three gold medals since it started competing in the Olympics at London in 1948, all of them in hockey

16 - PAKISTAN today unveiled a new plan that they hope will see them win the gold medal in the men's hockey

A four-year plan has now been launched by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) that will include hiring

Asif Bajwa, the secretary of the PHF, said: “Pakistan Hockey is at its worst.  

supported ad-hocism and worked to get the results immediately and now we can see the position of Pakistan hockey

won three gold medals since it started competing in the Olympics at London in 1948, all of them in hockey

SEPTEMBER 15 - KIP KEINO, the two-time Olympic gold medallist, said today he hopes that Kenya's new deal with Bristol will help them make progress in sports other than running in the build-up to the 2012 London Games.

"We want to see if we can improve in rowing, football, swimming, hockey, volleyball and also rugby

 SEPTEMBER 10 - A TOP official in Northern Ireland has claimed that the Province could stage matches in the Olympic football tournament in 2012 if a decision is made on building a new national stadium within the next month.

title at the 1972 Games in Munich, although Jimmy Kirkwood and Stephen Martin were part of the British hockey

 SEPTEMBER 10 - A TOP official in Northern Ireland has claimed that the Province could stage matches in the Olympic football tournament in 2012 if a decision is made on building a new national stadium within the next month.

title at the 1972 Games in Munich, although Jimmy Kirkwood and Stephen Martin were part of the British hockey

 SEPTEMBER 6 - ZIMBABWE are holding a review to see how they can improve for the 2012 Olympics on their performance in Beijing where, thanks to Kirsty Coventry (pictured), they enjoyed their best ever Games.

The other medal in the country's history was the gold medal won by the country's women's hockey team

  SEPTEMBER 4 - A MAJOR row has broken out in South Africa over the treatment of its Paralympic athletes, including sprinter Oscar Pistorius (pictured), arguably the best known disabled competitor in the world.

“Look at the hockey teams, they are losing nine and 10 nil.