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

Thanos Kostopoulos joined Milan Cortina 2026 as the organisation’s director of Paralympic Games integration, information, knowledge and learning.

2026 Winter Paralympics.The Games is due to feature Alpine skiing, biathlon, wheelchair curling, ice hockey

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

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

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has claimed the organisation still wants

athletes had been beaten, tortured and arrested for speaking out against Lukashenko.Belarusian Ice Hockey

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

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.

Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin has claimed it will be necessary to take steps to minimise the risks posed to his country's athletes by the Rodchenkov Act.

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

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

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

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

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

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has approved the allocation of quota places for the Women’s

winner of each Continental Championship has been awarded an automatic World Cup berth.The now-defunct Hockey

The Belarus Sports Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) has called for the International Ice Hockey Federation

(IIHF) to issue a life ban to Belarusian Ice Hockey Association (BIHA) President Dmitri Baskov, alleging

he has brought "ice hockey into disrepute".

too much looks like Baskov".The group says there have been "clear declarations from sports and ice hockey

Baskov has also been accused of preventing players and officials at the Dinamo Minsk Hockey Club from

Mr Dmitriy Baskov’s violations of IIHF ethical principles, principles of Olympism and bringing ice hockey

Dmitriy Baskov’s violations of IIHF ethical principles, principles of Olympism and fact of bringing ice hockey

with this violations into disrepute", resulting in Baskov being banned from "any ice hockey and/or inline

The parents of Canadian Para-ice hockey star Greg Westlake have pledged to donate a record CAN$1 million