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 (FIH) said today.

SOUTH AFRICAN Paul Revington (pictured) will be tasked with leading Ireland's men's hockey team to the London Olympics in 2012 after being named as the new men's national coach today.

BRITISH HOCKEY, which produced one of the most inspirational Olympic stories of recent Games when, led by Sean Kerly (pictured), they won the gold medals at Seoul in 1988, have warned that preparations for London 2012 risk being compromised by the financial crisis.

THE National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes, built in the euphoria following Britain's gold medal winning performance at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, is to be turned into a new, state-of-the-art centre for Network Rail.

AYAZ MAHMOOD, a member of the Pakistan hockey team that won the Olympic gold medals in 1984, has been given the task of trying to revive the country's fortunes for London 2012.

QATAR AIRWAYS have agreed a deal to become the title sponsor of the EuroHockey Nations Championships 2007 in Manchester, it was announced today.