A team of 20 athletes will represent New Zealand at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, which begin on Thursday (January 9).

alongside athletes from all over the world and make some new friends.”The New Zealand team includes ice hockey

joined by Katya Blong, Tallulah Bryant, Caleb Chapman and Axel Ruski-Jones, who will also compete in ice hockey

The deadline falls tomorrow on voting for December's Team USA Awards, with 11 sports represented by the 13 finalists, who include skier Mikaela Shiffrin and figure skater Nathan Chen.

cross-country skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, long track speedskating, Para Nordic skiing, Para ice hockey

World Cup in Lake Placid, in company with Lauren Gibbs.The other two contenders are the US Para ice hockey

team, who defeated Canada 2-1 at the Para Hockey Cup in Newfoundland, and the US women's 4x5 kilometre

A few years back I was in Romania to cover Arsenal’s Champions League match against Steaua Bucharest, and, finding myself with a few spare moments - this was before online journalism had fully gripped its denizens - I visited the Palace of the Parliament grandiloquently established by the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was by then deposed, disgraced and dead.

in armed conflict.A similar but thankfully less heavy error occurred at the 2017 International Ice Hockey

Championships in Austria did the same thing.More awkwardness on the anthemic front took place before a 2012 hockey

Odisha's Minister of Sports and Youth Services Tusharkanti Behera has detailed the Indian state's vision to identify and nurture young talent when its capital Bhubaneswar hosts the inaugural Khelo India University Games (KIUG) this year.

feature 17 sport disciplines - archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, fencing, football, hockey

Canada claimed its 18th International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship title in the Czech

Japan has named a record 72-strong team for this month's Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne which will include 43 women.

including gold in the boys figure skating thanks to Sota Yamamoto and Sena Takenaka in the girls' ice hockey

aside defending champions Finland to set up a meeting with Russia in the final of the International Ice Hockey

Olympic hockey gold medallist Alex Danson is targeting a place on the British team at Tokyo 2020 after

Danson, a member of the British squad which claimed the country's first women's Olympic hockey title

It's been a long 18 months since I last played international hockey," Danson, whose last appearance came

Employees of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will be among the 3,000 volunteers who will support the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne this month.

I like sports in general, more specifically ice hockey, and wanted to discover the Youth Olympic Games

Former National Hockey League (NHL) player Gordie Dwyer has been named head coach of Canada’s ice hockey

following day.The Canadian team will be looking to continue their record of winning a medal at every ice hockey

tournament held at the Winter Youth Olympics.Canada have won medals in both ice hockey tournaments staged

It’s definitely an honour to be selected by Hockey Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee to lead

Canada and in the Kontinental Hockey League in 2018-19.Some of Canada’s top players at Lausanne 2020

For every player this is their first experience with Hockey Canada."

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is set to be installed as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne next week.

help.Then, he locked horns with the American Avery Brundage in a dispute over eligibility for the ice hockey

Zanon scored an overtime winner as the United States beat Canada in the final of the International Ice Hockey

States in a repeat of last year's gold medal game to reach the semi-finals of the International Ice Hockey

University and Tertiary Sport NZ (UTSNZ) has announced its 2020 calendar of events for the National Tertiary Championship.

and 11 at Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel.This will be followed by competitions in futsal, 3x3 basketball, hockey

Activities at the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) went from "strength to strength" in 2019, according to World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue.

also signed agreements with seven other sports in 2019 - wrestling, judo, badminton, table tennis, hockey