JUNE 20 - FOUR candidate cities have submitted detailed plans to host the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012, it was announced today.

Youth Olympics will feature about 1,000 athletes aged 14-18 competing in seven sports - skiing, ice hockey

 JUNE 21 - THE slogan "Twenty20 in 2020" is set to be increasingly heard around the world soon as cricket steps up its attempts to be included in the Olympics and, as DAVID OWEN reveals, it has a powerful shot among its armoury

altogether surprising: the country has had little to cheer at the Games since its once invincible field hockey

 JUNE 23 - WREXHAM, the largest town in North Wales, is planning to launch a bid to host the 2019 Commonwealth Youth Games, it was announced today.

They cover eight sports: athletics, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, tennis, squash, swimming and weightlifting

  AUGUST 28 - BRITAIN'S successful rowers and canoeists who between them won eight Olympic medals in Beijing, including three gold, has received a boost with the news that their training facilities are to be upgraded.

rowing squads, which will be used mainly by rowers based at Caversham Lake, GB canoeing and England Hockey

Other works planned around the country include a new archery range and all-weather hockey pitches at

  AUGUST 28 - REBECCA ADLINGTON, the double Olympic gold medallist, tonight officially opened the third annual UK School Games, being held in Bath and Bristol.

Record numbers are competing in Bath and Bristol this year, where the new sport of hockey will join competition

 JULY 25 - A LEADING official of the British Olympic Association has today praised the team's pre-Games training camp in Macau as a "treasure".

So far, some 40 British athletes are already in Macau, including women's hockey and gymnastics and men's

hockey.  

- CHARLOTTE CRADDOCK (pictured) today became the youngest-ever player picked for Britain's Olympic hockey

athletic squad with high levels of physical conditioning and we have worked hard to know our game of hockey

Mission in Beijing, said: “I am extremely pleased that both the men’s and women’s hockey

Click here to watch a video of the men’s hockey squad in training with Barry Middleton introducing

Click here to read Barry Middleton’s diary from inside the GB men’s hockey camp.

  NEW DELHI will stage the 2010 Hockey World Cup despite the concerns over the security situation

in India following the Mumbai terrorist attack, the president of the International Hockey Federation

There had also been concern that preparations for the hockey event, which New Delhi was awarded in November

  NEW DELHI will stage the 2010 Hockey World Cup despite the concerns over the security situation

in India following the Mumbai terrorist attack, the president of the International Hockey Federation

There had also been concern that preparations for the hockey event, which New Delhi was awarded in November

Dutch Olympic Committee have chosen Maurits Hendriks (pictured), one of the world's most highly rated hockey

Hendriks, meanwhile, is one of the best known names in Dutch sport, having guided the men's hockey team

like for me to continue as their coach, this was followed by a generous offer from the Royal Spanish Hockey

 JUNE 25 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, said today that it is important how British sport builds on any gold medals it wins at this year's Games in Beijing rather than how many the team win.

cannot be suddenly allowed to drop off the radar screen in the way that in 1988 we won the Olympic hockey

 JUNE 25 - JOHN WHITAKER (pictured) today became the oldest person named in Britain's team for the 2008 Olympics when he was announced as part of a four-strong show jumping squad that also includes his brother, the fifth time they will have appeared in the Games together.

Team GB for Beijing following the selection yesterday of the Mantell siblings who will be competing in hockey

Hindle's father, John, played hockey for Britain at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.  

  JUNE 25 - THE GOVERNMENT admitted today that Zimbabwe will still be able to take part in the 2012 Olympics in London despite their cricket team being banned today from touring in England next year.

Zimbabwe has competed in every Olympics since 1980, where their women’s hockey team surprisingly won

 AUGUST 9 - LONDON 2012 officials woke up in Beijing this morning thinking about how they could follow what was being hailed as the greatest opening ceremony in the history of the Olympics.

”Team GB hockey player Stephen Dick, who is also about to compete at his first Olympic Games, said

  JULY 1 - THE Government is already failing to spread the benefits of the Olympic Games across the country, the Liberal Democrats have claimed.

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