The fourth Anti-Doping Annual Report for rugby in England has been published on behalf of the Anti-Doping Advisory Group. The group is responsible for advising on anti-doping policy for rugby in this country and is made up of key stakeholders, including: the RFU, Premiership Rugby, the Rugby Players’ Association and UK Anti-Doping. The testing programme
The soap showdown netball match between Coronation Street and Emmerdale has sold out for a second year. The Text Santa charity event will bring cast members from the rival soaps together for a netball match later this month. Katy Cavanagh will captain the Corrie side with cast mates Brooke Vincent, Tisha Merry, Jane Danson and
The players’ lawsuit against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) will continue following the CSA’s refusal to enter into negotiations. The gender discrimination case has been brought before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal on the grounds that the FIFA would never hold the men’s tournament on artificial pitches, in fact since 1930 the men’s
Mark Sampson has selected his 23-player squad for England Women’s historic match against Germany at Wembley Stadium connected by EE next week. Karen Carney is in line to make her 100th international appearance. The Birmingham City captain made her England debut against Italy in 2005 and has scored 23 times for the Lionesses. Eight of
The EuroHockey Championships 2015 is being jointly hosted by England Hockey and the European Hockey Federation, and sees the top eight European national men’s and women’s teams battle it out for the top prize over 10 days and 40 matches. Hosted at hockey’s Olympic legacy venue, the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on Queen
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today released the schedule for the 2015 Women’s Ashes Series and announced that for the first time, Sky Sports will provide live television coverage of every ball in the seven match multi-format contest. The 2015 Series will be the third time that the Women’s Ashes have been contested
Following the success of last year’s International Netball Festival at Disneyland Paris England Netball has extended its partnership with the travel company Sport Experiences and committed to delivering an enhanced programme of events at Disneyland Paris. These events provide England Netball with the ability to generate a commercial return, attract new participants to the sport
From 21 – 30 August 2015 sixteen of the best teams in Europe are coming to London to compete in EuroHockey 2015 at England Hockey’s brand new hockey venue – Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. To start the event eight teams for each gender will be split into two
Old Chelmsfordians Cricket Club member Alice Green has spent a day with the England women’s team as a reward for her outstanding volunteering work in the game. During the 2014 season, the 19-year-old from Chelmsford completed over 675 hours of volunteering either as a coach or assistant manager at her local club and for Essex
The Awards season is in full swing and the nominees have now been announced for the 2014 BT Sport Action Woman Award. This award, voted by the British public, comes at the end of another fantastic year for Women’s sport. It will be fascinating to see who will succeed last year’s winner, Downhill Mountain Biking
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