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Former USOC executive director Pittenger dies aged 95

  • PASO

Former United States Olympic Committee (USOC) executive director Baaron Pittenger has died aged 95.

 He left USOC in 1990 to become USA Hockey executive director until 1993, then going on to chair


Belarus stripped of World Modern Pentathlon Championships

  • Modern Pentathlon

Belarus has been stripped of another major event after the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) confirmed Minsk would not hold its World Championships later this year.

World Championship in an Olympic sport to be moved out of Belarus this week after the International Ice Hockey


Airbnb becomes first Beijing 2022 sponsor to be targeted by Uighur campaign groups

  • Beijing 2022

Campaign groups fighting against the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China have joined forces to pressure sponsors to withdraw their support of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

manufacturer Skoda and body care brand Nivea Men threatened to withdraw its support from the International Ice Hockey


From London to Melbourne, from Edmonton to Tokyo, how bubbles can enable international sporting events to rise above COVID-19

  • The Big Read

many of the world’s leading tennis players, they have no more sympathetic observer in the world than Hockey

vice-president Dean McIntosh, who recently oversaw the successful staging in Edmonton of the International Ice Hockey

Canada was able to consult the formula applied by the National Hockey League (NHL) in conjunction with

If people started to stray outside of the regulations, we, Hockey Canada, were going to be accountable

This experience greatly assisted Hockey Canada and our Rogers Place staff to be able to divide, secure

They have been a great host community for Hockey Canada, and we look forward continuing that in future

The IIHF World Junior Championships was the second major ice hockey event Edmonton had staged using the



Campaign group calls on UIPM to strip Belarus of World Modern Pentathlon Championships

  • Modern Pentathlon

The Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) has urged the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) to strip Belarus of this year's World Championships because of the crisis in the country.

disputed re-election in August.But there have been calls for the UIPM to follow the International Ice Hockey

hesitation in making the decision to transfer the Championship from Belarus has almost led to bringing ice hockey


Liam Morgan: The IIHF took far too long to make the right decision on Belarus

  • Inside the Blogs

More than six weeks ago, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced a series of "provisional measures" against Belarus.

While the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) was not named specifically, it was clearly among

although I doubt that includes cosying up to Lukashenko and being pictured with a senior Belarusian ice hockey

hesitation in making the decision to transfer the Championship from Belarus has almost led to bringing ice hockey


Babey returns as Canada coach and training camp underway in Calgary

  • Para Ice Hockey News

Ken Babey is to remain as Canada's Para-ice hockey coach for the 2020-2021 season, as Hockey Canada holds

We are excited to bring together members of Canada’s National Para Hockey Team in a safe manner during

Foligno and Russ Herrington.Goaltending consultant Mike Fountain is also in Calgary.The World Para Hockey

Championship is due to be held in the Czech Republic in May, should the health situation allow, and Hockey




Philip Barker: Shades of Pakistan in 1971 as Belarus loses IIHF World Championship

  • Inside the Blogs

The decision to strip Belarus of host status for this May’s Men's World Ice Hockey Championship comes

almost 50 years to the day after the first Hockey World Cup on grass was postponed because of fears

every Olympic tournament since 1928.An article proposing such a competition had appeared in an Indian hockey

 In April 1969, the council of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) came together in Paris.

FIH to consider holding a World Cup in 1971, the year before the Munich Games.Dara had won Olympic hockey

Patrick Rowley, the distinguished hockey journalist who edited the FIH magazine, observed: "Hockey developing

 A poster for the first-ever Hockey World Cup ©Hockey/Dil BahraShortly before the vote the Indians


IIHF confirm "unavoidable" decision to move Men's World Championship out of Belarus

  • Ice Hockey

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has confirmed it has taken the "unavoidable" decision to remove

(@Tsihanouskaya) January 18, 2021The group has also called for the IIHF to sanction Belarusian Ice Hockey

At the same time the BBSF reminds the IIHF and the entire hockey community of the need to conduct a detailed

investigation into the chairman of the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation Dmitry Baskov, who was involved