Northern Ireland has started talks about forming a hockey team to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

The country does not currently compete in hockey at the Commonwealth Games because Ireland play on a

 The Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council (NICG) have held talks with Ulster Hockey and Hockey

 "The notion of sending two Northern Ireland hockey teams to the Games is still on the agenda and

, at present, we are working hard to help build the Ulster Hockey brand," Ulster Hockey chair Billy Pollock

Hockey Ireland would then need to engage with the FIH while we would work with the Commonwealth Games

Belgium's men fought back to beat Australia as the top two teams in the world clashed in the International Hockey

Belgium fell a goal behind to the host nation but rallied and claimed a 4-1 victory at Melbourne’s State Hockey

stunning comeback before overcoming hosts Australia in the shoot-out in a thrilling men's International Hockey

scored three times in the final quarter to earn a 5-5 draw and send the contest at Melbourne’s State Hockey

Belgium's women upset hosts New Zealand with a fine victory on match day five of the International Hockey

Federation (FIH) Pro League at the North Harbour Hockey Stadium in Auckland today.

World Para Ice Hockey is looking for countries to host three of its major events in 2020.

 World Para Ice Hockey are looking for a country to host the 2020 European Championships ©World

Para Ice Hockey"We anticipate an exciting and busy year for our sport in 2020," said Barbora Kohoutova

, World Para Ice Hockey manager.

and Worlds C-Pool expanding, we are seeing nations hungry to compete and eager to develop in Para-ice hockey

Hosts Russia won the Under-19 Men's Bandy World Championships in Krasnoyarsk - the test event for this year's Winter Universiade in the city.

freestyle skiing, as well as Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling and figure skating.Ice hockey

Japanese short-track speed skater Kei Saito has escaped a doping ban after his positive test at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang was blamed on a contaminated product.

and bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva also failed drugs tests at Pyeongchang 2018, as did Slovenian ice hockey

beach volleyball tournament.Latvia borders Belarus and its capital Riga is due to co-host the 2021 Ice Hockey

day of stayThe visa system will be similar to the one used in Belarus during the 2014 Men's World Ice Hockey

on Budget and Finance, who claimed the event would have a similar impact to the 2014 Men’s World Ice Hockey

Twenty-nine years ago tomorrow Wayne Gretzky, then playing for the Los Angeles Kings, set a National Hockey

long sequence of landmarks in the career of a man who has been widely adjudged as the greatest ice hockey

sharp features captured as he turned up for training in Nagano ahead of his first and last Olympic ice hockey

Russia's Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov has declared Krasnoyarsk "ready" for the 2019 Winter Universiade after visiting several venues.

On a visit to the Siberian city Kolobkov was shown around the Crystal Ice Arena, which will host ice hockey

Krasnoyarsk 2019 Directorate, Maxim Urazov.The Crystal Ice Arena has already hosted the international Student Hockey

as the Dutch recorded two victories against New Zealand during the latest round of the International Hockey

in the men's tournament last weekend with a 4-2 victory over Argentina at the Estadio Municipal de Hockey

The scoreboard from the famous ice hockey match at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, where

 The Soviet team had captured the previous four Olympic ice hockey gold medals, going back to Innsbruck

1964, and had not lost an Olympic ice hockey game since 1968.The scoreboard was designed and built by

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have announced Beijing 2022 could become the first Winter Paralympics to have gender parity in medal events after confirming the Games programme and athlete quotas.

won in wheelchair curling at Pyeongchang 2018 ©Getty ImagesEight teams are set to compete in the ice hockey