olympic games

The Forgotten Middleton

One has to feel for Great Britain’s hockey players. They qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio di Janeiro next year with a third place finish at the Hockey World League semi finals in Antwerp, and only lost one game

A Bump in the Road to Rio

If ever people doubted the legitimacy of World Hockey’s newest international tournament the Hockey World League they only had to see the game between Argentina and Germany at the Semi Finals in Buenos Aires two nights ago. Argentina came out

Raise the Profile with Relegation and Commonsense

As the years go by the worse some sports administrators decision making seems to be. On the weekend the Sudirman Cup Badminton tournament came to and end with China being crowned Champions for the tenth time in its 14 year

The Cost of Fast Food Sport

Every sports fan knows that at the elite level sport needs television. It is the television deals that inject the finances to keep the game afloat at the highest level. Yet in many cases those funds do not filter down

Please Sir Can We Have Some More?

Little did we know when we raised the issue of various sports losing funding after the completion of the Olympic Games – Pain in the AIS – that we would hear of non elite sporting organisations causing a little angst