LOCOG has announced the line up for the Olympic Test Event to be held at the Riverbank Stadium at the Olympic Park this May.
Invited to take part in the Men's Tournament are Australia, India and Germany, as well as Great Britain. Only India, from that group, has not yet qualified for the Olympics. Taking part in the women's tournament will be Argentina, China, Korea and Great Britain, all of which have already qualified.
The tournament starts on Wednesday 2 May and finishes on Sunday 6 May. Friday 4 May will be a rest day.
The Riverbank Stadium is the new name for the Olympic Hockey Centre. The change reflects the fact that the stadium will not be exclusively for hockey. It will also host the Paralympic 5 and 7-aside football tournaments.
Further details of the Test Event will appear in the next edition of our on-line magazine, HockeyTalk, which will be available to download on 26 January 2012.
The announcement was made at the Hockey Writers Club Awards in London's Knightsbridge, where East Grinstead's Mark Pearn won the Men's UK Player of the Year Award. The women's award went to Reading's Alex Danson.
The other awards were the Higgins Youth Awards, which went to Joanne Leigh of Clifton and Joe Sharp of Belper. The Higgins Junior Awards went to Martha Baker of Beeston and James Albery of Old Loughtonians.
