Russia's ice hockey team received a heroes send-off as they beat Spartak Moscow 2-1 in their final warm-up

are considered among the favourites for the gold medal at Pyeongchang 2018 in the absence of National Hockey

evening to prepare for their opening match in Group B against Slovakia on February 14 at the Gangneung Hockey

before what is set to be a highly-charged match against the United States the following day.Russia's ice hockey

they played a warm-up match against Spartak Moscow ©FHRVladislav Tretiak, President of the Russian Ice Hockey

 "Everyone thank you very much, and now it's up to the hockey players who are preparing for big

Korea's unified women's ice hockey team lost their first match today, a 3-1 defeat against Sweden in

It will be harder for new sports to be included on the Winter Olympic Games programme in the future because the ones currently there are continually innovating with new disciplines. 

organisation in charge of the new sport added to Tokyo 2020.Bandy, a team sport broadly similar to ice hockey

South Korea's ice hockey goaltender Matt Dalton has been told by the International Olympic Committee

visiting his statue in Seoul ©WikipediaThe 31-year-old Dalton, who has previously played for National Hockey

League side Boston Bruins and Kontinental Hockey League HC Vityaz from Russia, revealed the IOC's decision

Jean-Claude Killy revisited Olympic history a couple of weeks ago. It was located on the slopes of Chamrousse, which hosted the men’s Alpine skiing events at the Grenoble Winter Olympics. Of which the impossibly dashing Frenchman won three. All three.

were pictured chatting amiably together before taking part in a training session with the Russian ice hockey

Former Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) chief executive Ben McDevitt will chair the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent observer team at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

Dominic Muser from the German Anti-Doping Agency.UNESCO's Raluca Petre-Sandor and the International Ice Hockey

Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry is in pole position to replace United States ice hockey player Angela

from Norway and the United States respectively, Spanish skeleton athlete Ander Mirambell, Finnish ice hockey

Athletics South Africa (ASA) President Aleck Skhosana says he has received numerous messages from aggrieved athletes over their omission from the country's team for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

2018 - athletics, badminton, bowls, boxing, mountain biking, road cycling, track cycling, gymnastics, hockey

German Delf Ness has been appointed interim chief executive at the International Hockey Federation (FIH

Executive Board he was on medical leave until the end of March.New Zealand's McCracken had shocked the hockey

December.It had been claimed McCracken, a businessman who was the technical delegate for the men's hockey

Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, quit as a result of being unable to secure a title sponsor for the new Hockey

following the departure of Jason McCracken ©Getty ImagesNess, a former vice-president of the Germany Hockey

over how the Indian official will juggle the responsibility of running the two organisations.Senior hockey

Ten more North Korean athletes have arrived in South Korea prior to their historic Winter Olympic participation at Pyeongchang 2018.

figure skaters and two short track speed skaters were the athletes to travel.They join 12 women's ice hockey

countries will also march under a unified Korean flag at the Opening Ceremony while the women's ice hockey

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned sanctions against 28 Russian athletes banned from the Olympic Games for life, with their results from Sochi 2014 being reinstated.

Kuznetcov, along with lugers Tatyana Ivanova and Albert Demchenko, have also had sanctions overturned.Ice hockey

Ivanova, Yulia Chekaleva and Anastasia Dotsenko have also had violations confirmed, as well as ice hockey

Pavel Datsyuk has been selected as captain of the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) ice hockey team

team.The forward currently plays for the SKA Saint Petersburg team, who Znarok coaches in the Kontinental Hockey

claimed a bronze.Ilya Kovalchuk will also compete at his fifth Games, with the two previous National Hockey

Nikolai Prokhorkin, Ivan Telegin, Vadim Shipachyov and Sergei Shirokov.Olympic Athletes from Russia ice hockey

today before leaving for Pyeongchang 2018, where many see them as favourites ©Getty ImagesRussian Ice Hockey

indisputable favourites - quite a few players in our rival teams hold top positions in the Kontinental Hockey

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach hopes to attend the joint Korean women's ice hockey

the Opening Ceremony of the Games.Bach has claimed he is hopeful of watching the tie at the Kwandong Hockey

The unified Korean women's ice hockey team trained together for the first time last week ©Getty ImagesSouth

Players from the unified Korean women's ice hockey team held a special birthday celebration for Jin Ok

Sign of the "Olympic spirit" ©TwitterBach’s comments followed a mixed reaction to news of a joint ice hockey

Remember Joyce McKinney, the American Mormon beauty queen at the centre of a sex scandal back in the 1970s, who said she would be prepared to ski naked down Everest with a rose between her teeth to please her lover? 

of the British tabloids.Okay, so North and South Korea marching together and sharing a women's ice hockey

Ostrava in the Czech Republic will host the first edition of the women's Para Ice Hockey World Cup in

World Para Ice Hockey had confirmed earlier this month that the tournament would be held from May 1 to

additional training and development sessions are due to be held both on and off the ice.World Para Ice Hockey

International Women’s Cup in 2014, the Women’s World Ice Sledge Hockey Festival in 2016, and the Women

’s Para Ice Hockey Development Camp in 2017.The ultimate goal for the governing body is to stage a the

, with a view to the sport eventually being added to the Paralympic Games along with men's Para ice hockey