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

  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

  THE Scottish Government tonight stepped up its opposition to a British football team at the London Olympic Games in 2012, claiming a precedent exists for a Scotland international side to take part.

  A team competing as "GB-Scotland" won bronze in the hockey at the London Games of 1908, according

  THE Scottish Government tonight stepped up its opposition to a British football team at the London Olympic Games in 2012, claiming a precedent exists for a Scotland international side to take part.

  A team competing as "GB-Scotland" won bronze in the hockey at the London Games of 1908, according

  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

 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

 JULY 3 - THE Home Nations may not have had any football teams at this summer’s European Championships but two football teams will travel to Beijing to represent Britain at this summer’s Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The football events at the Games take place at the Olympic Green Hockey Field.  

 JULY 3 - THE Home Nations may not have had any football teams at this summer’s European Championships but two football teams will travel to Beijing to represent Britain at this summer’s Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The football events at the Games take place at the Olympic Green Hockey Field.  

JULY 3 - THE Home Nations may not have had any football teams at this summer’s European Championships but two football teams will travel to Beijing to represent Britain at this summer’s Paralympic Games in Beijing.  

  The football events at the Games take place at the Olympic Green Hockey Field.

  SOUTH AFRICAN Paul Revington (pictured) will be tasked with leading Ireland's men's hockey team

Angus Kirkland, the chief executive of the Irish Hockey Association, said: “Having coached the South

"It is an exciting time for Irish men’s hockey as we move forward with a world-class coach and for the

  SOUTH AFRICAN Paul Revington (pictured) will be tasked with leading Ireland's men's hockey team

Angus Kirkland, the chief executive of the Irish Hockey Association, said: “Having coached the South

"It is an exciting time for Irish men’s hockey as we move forward with a world-class coach and for the

  BRITISH HOCKEY, which produced one of the most inspirational Olympic stories of recent Games when

  Hockey is one of a number of sports that faces an anxious wait to discover whether their funding

Philip Kimberley, the chief executive of Great Britain Hockey, has today written to the Culture Secretary

Hockey is one of the sports where, with proper preparation, Britain could make an impact.  

Britain has a mixed record in the Olympic hockey tournament.  

Inspired by Kerly, who was dubbed the "Gary Lineker of hockey", the sport briefly enjoyed a massive boom

  BRITISH HOCKEY, which produced one of the most inspirational Olympic stories of recent Games when

  Hockey is one of a number of sports that faces an anxious wait to discover whether their funding

Philip Kimberley, the chief executive of Great Britain Hockey, has today written to the Culture Secretary

Hockey is one of the sports where, with proper preparation, Britain could make an impact.  

Britain has a mixed record in the Olympic hockey tournament.  

Inspired by Kerly, who was dubbed the "Gary Lineker of hockey", the sport briefly enjoyed a massive boom

  DESIGNS were unveiled today for, what the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed, was a “simple, efficient and flexible” London 2012 Handball Arena that will become a new multi-sports facility in legacy.

The Handball Arena will be in the West of the Olympic Park, to the South of the Hockey Centre, within

The ODA also claimed that in legacy it could also be adapted to host hockey, martial arts, kabaddi, dodgeball

  DESIGNS were unveiled today for, what the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claimed, was a “simple, efficient and flexible” London 2012 Handball Arena that will become a new multi-sports facility in legacy.

The Handball Arena will be in the West of the Olympic Park, to the South of the Hockey Centre, within

The ODA also claimed that in legacy it could also be adapted to host hockey, martial arts, kabaddi, dodgeball