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FIH cancels 2021 Hockey Stars Awards due to coronavirus pandemic

  • Hockey

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has cancelled its flagship annual awards for 2021 because of

FIH chief executive Thierry Weil said the Hockey Stars Awards, which recognise the best players in the

course intend to renew with these awards in the future, once the situation will enable international hockey

postponed or cancelled, including the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, pushed back to 2021.The FIH Hockey

restrictions imposed due to a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections in Europe.The FIH held its 2020 Hockey


Olympic champion Kuzmina among Slovak stars to join Slovakian NOC's give blood calls

  • EOC

Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee (SOSC) President Anton Siekel is calling on Slovakians to join a number of the country’s sporting stars - including three-time Olympic gold medallist Anastasiya Kuzmina - in giving blood.

bids to boost the number of donors.Cyclist Peter Sagan, a three-time world road race champion, ice hockey

skateboarder Richard Tury, mixed martial arts fighter Ľudovít Klein, footballer Róbert Vittek, ice hockey



Powerchair Hockey European Championships cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  • Paralympics

Next year's Powerchair Hockey European Championships have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

global health crisis, with International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Powerchair Hockey

 Meetings took place in October and were attended by IWAS Powerchair Hockey technical delegate Anna

technical delegate Aina Budde and secretary Kenny Verbraekel.Finland had been due to host the Powerchair Hockey

 Following the decision to cancel the European Championships, IWAS Powerchair Hockey claimed it

to minimise the effects of the cancellation and would soon announce the host of the 2022 Powerchair Hockey


Lukashenko vows to challenge IOC ban from Tokyo 2020 in court

  • Tokyo 2020

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has vowed to challenge the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to ban him from Tokyo 2020 in court.

athletes imprisoned and discriminated against by the organisation.Viktor Lukashenko and Belarusian Ice Hockey



Lukashenko suspended from Tokyo 2020 under IOC measures against Belarus NOC

  • Olympics

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has been banned from attending next year's postponed Olympic Games in Tokyo as part of a series of provisional International Olympic Committee (IOC) measures against the country's National Olympic Committee (NOC).

discrimination".Belarus also appears set to lose the co-hosting rights for the 2021 International Ice Hockey

organisation.Viktor Lukashenko, the President's son and vice-president of the NOC, and Belarusian Ice Hockey


The Hockey Museum given funding for feasibility study into mobile exhibition

  • Collecting and Heritage News

A mobile exhibition could be launched by The Hockey Museum in the United Kingdom after it was awarded

heritage on a national and, possibly, even European level.The Hockey Museum is based in Woking in England

and was opened in July 2015.It is the only museum in the world devoted to hockey, which made its Olympic

THM (The Hockey Museum) is grateful to Arts Council England and the National Lottery for their support

of the initial planning and feasibility work for a mobile hockey exhibition/experience," The Hockey

for engaging with players, families and fans in the hockey community and beyond," she said.



USADA chief claims versions of Rodchenkov Act should be introduced in other countries

  • News

Other countries should implement laws similar to the Rodchenkov Act to prevent repeats of the Russian scandal and protect sport across the world, United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) chief executive Travis Tygart has claimed.

that it does not cover professional athletes in the US in sports such as baseball, basketball and ice hockey


Half of Australian women's hockey team reportedly considering strike eight months before Tokyo 2020

  • Hockey

Up to half of the Australian women's hockey squad are reportedly considering a strike just eight months

According to the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the axing of 2019 International Hockey Federation

been "chaotic".Former player Nicole Arrold has raised concerns regarding the culture within Australian hockey

Australia has won three Olympic gold medals in women's hockey, the last coming on home soil at Sydney

2000.The Hockeyroos also finished second in the inaugural edition of the FIH Hockey Pro League in 2019


Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act signed into law by US President

  • News

The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, which gives United States officials the power to prosecute individuals for doping schemes at international sports competitions involving American athletes, has been signed into law.

that it does not cover professional athletes in the US in sports such as baseball, basketball and ice hockey


Holloway appointed technical delegate for netball at Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

The International Netball Federation (INF) has appointed Ian Holloway as its technical delegate for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. 

, and he has previously worked on the International Cricket Council's T20 World Cup and the Women's Hockey