London 2012

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2020 Olympic applications from Istanbul (Turkey), Tokyo (Japan), Baku (Azerbaijan), Doha (Qatar) and Madrid (Spain)

Posted on 16. Feb, 2012 by editor

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is very pleased to announce that by the deadline of 15 February 2012, the cities of  Istanbul (Turkey), Tokyo (Japan), Baku (» Read more »

World’s best announced for Olympic Hockey test event

Posted on 18. Jan, 2012 by jeremy

Some of the world’s best hockey teams have been announced to play in the Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament, a test event for London 2012 and part of the London Prepares series.

The event, which will take place at the Riverbank Arena from 2-6 May 2012 in the Olympic Park, will feature the men’s Australian and German teams who are currently ranked number one and two in the world, the current women’s World Champions, Argentina, as well as both the men’s and women’s British teams as they prepare for the Games.

The tournament will also feature a men’s team from India, women’s teams from China and Korea and will give all eight teams the chance to compete in a tournament for the first time in the Olympic Park. The Riverbank Arena, a temporary venue, will be fully completed and will host up to 60,000 spectators over the eight sessions of the tournament. 

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Olympic hockey qualifying tournaments - New Delhi, Dublin and Belgium

Posted on 23. Dec, 2011 by editor

LAUSANNE – The FIH has released the schedules for four of its six Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

The first of the Olympic Qualification tournaments will be held in New Delhi, India from February 18-26. The men’s field will include India, Canada, France, Poland, Italy and the United States. India enters the event as the highest-ranked team in the FIH World Ranking in the group at #10.

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Hockey pitches are the real eye-catchers in new pictures of London's Olympic Park

Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by editor
Smurfland: Olympic Park on December 20, 2011 showing the pink and blue hockey pitches (c) ODASmurfland: Olympic Park on December 20, 2011 showing the pink and blue hockey pitches (c) ODALondon's blue and pink 'smurfturf' hockey pitches are the real eye-catchers in new aerial images of Olympic Park released by Locog.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has published the images showing the transformation of the Olympic Park as 2012 approaches. 

The aerial shots show the Olympic Park ‘big build’ is now over 90 per cent complete with the Olympic Delivery Authority on track to hand the site over to LOCOG early next year. The handover of the Olympic Park is one of a number of  key dates and milestones that will take place in the final months ahead of the Games including:

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Australia announce men's hockey London 2012 training squad

Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by editor

After a history making victory at the Champions Trophy in New Zealand last weekend, Kookaburras coach Ric Charlesworth has selected his 2012 London Olympic Games training squad. Charlesworth says “the task of selecting a squad is very difficult. We’ve built a deep squad over the last 3  years and it made the selection process tough, but we believe this group is better balanced in terms of attack and defence".

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