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Craddock youngest player to be picked for Britain

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- 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.


Hockey chief promises 2010 World Cup will take place in India

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  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


Hockey chief promises 2010 World Cup will take place in India

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  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 name replacement for van Commenee

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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


Coe wants British sport to build on its successes

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 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


Whitaker named in Britain's Olympic team at age of 53

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 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.  


EXCLUSIVE: Zimbabwe will still be allowed to compete in 2012 Olympics

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  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


London ponders on how to follow Beijing

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 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


Lib Dems accuse Government of failing to spread Olympic benefits

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  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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Madrid launches international campaign to host 2016 Olympics

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  AUGUST 10 - MADRID today officially launched its international campaign to follow London and host the 2016 Olympics, unveiling its new slogan “with the human touch” in 2016.

Mercedes Coghen, a member of Spain's Olympic gold-medal winning hockey team the last time Spain hosted


Tories plan to drop UK School Games if elected

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  THE UK School Games will be replaced by a new inter-school competition if the Conservatives are elected to Government, it was reported today.

Schools Games were held in Bristol and Bath in August, and featured nine sports including athletics, hockey




Spain victory boosts Madrid 2016 bid

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  JUNE 29 - SPAIN'S Euro 2008 victory tonight showed a “will to win” which will inspire the Spanish Capital’s bid to host the Olympics said the Madrid 2016 bid chief.

Coghen won an Olympic  gold medal in hockey for Spain and believes that the drive and focus needed to


Australia signs up sponsor for 2012

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 MAY 1 - AUSTRALIA'S leading bank has become the latest big-name company to commit themselves to sponsoring their Olympic team through to the 2012 Games.

director Simon Walsh was joined at the Fremantle store by Olympian Eamon Sullivan and the Australian hockey