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Russian lugers Demchenko and Ivanova to be defended by American lawyer

  • Luge

President of the Russian Luge Federation Natalia Gart claims that banned athletes Albert Demchenko and Tatyana Ivanova will be represented by an American lawyer from Swiss law firm Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd at their Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing.

to Lausanne to be at the hearing themselves.It has also been announced that the Russian women’s ice hockey


Pyeongchang 2018 name mayors for Athletes' Villages

  • Pyeongchang 2018

The Pyeongchang 2018 Organising Committee (POCOG) have announced the mayors of the Athletes' Villages for both the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

ice-based competitions will take place in the Gangneung coastal cluster, which contains the Gangneung Hockey


Koreas exchange list of delegates for talks on North's participation at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Pyeongchang 2018

North Korea and South Korea have today exchanged lists of delegates for tomorrow’s scheduled talks on the former’s participation at next month's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, according to officials in Seoul.

joint march at the Opening Ceremony of the Games on February 9 and the fielding of a joint women's hockey


Exclusive: Batra urged to choose between Presidency of FIH and IOA in letter sent to governing body

  • Hockey

Narinder Batra is facing calls to choose between his current Presidential roles at the International Hockey

insidethegames, Balbirnie outlines concerns which he claims are shared by him and "other senior members of the hockey

McCracken.The organisation are also in the middle of a 10-year development strategy, launched after hockey

was nearly axed from the Olympic programme in 2013, which includes the launch of the new Hockey Pro

Balbirnie, a former European Hockey Federation Executive Board member, insisted his letter and his

combined with talented teams within both organisations, I can continue to drive forward the growth of hockey


Saint Petersburg eyes bid for 2024 IIHF World Championship

  • Ice Hockey

Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak has said Saint Petersburg will bid for the

We want Saint Petersburg to host the 2024 World Championships," Tretyak, who won three Olympic ice hockey

gold medals for the Soviet Union, said.The city has already hosted the International Ice Hockey


North Korea to send 140-member orchestra to Pyeongchang 2018

  • Pyeongchang 2018

North Korea has agreed to send a 140-member orchestra to South Korea during next month's Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang following a meeting between neighbouring officials today. 

capacity at the Games.The two countries were also thought to have discussed the proposed joint women's ice hockey


Ice hockey only sport being considered for joint Korean Olympic team, official claims

  • Pyeongchang 2018

share a bobsleigh with North Korea at next month's Winter Olympic Games, claiming a joint women's ice hockey

Korea's Vice Sports Minister Roh Tae-kang has already confirmed the country has proposed a combined ice hockey

in Lausanne ©Getty Imagesinsidethegames exclusively revealed last week that a joint Korean ice hockey

seeking further cooperation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Ice Hockey

they had sought understanding from the other countries who are due to participate in the women's ice hockey


Renovation work completed at main Asian Games stadium in Jakarta

  • Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games

Work to renovate the main stadium for this year's Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang has been completed, officials in Indonesia have claimed.

Bung Karno Sports Complex, which has facilities for tennis, swimming, basketball, badminton, archery, hockey


Michael Pavitt: Tubby's toast but Reddy departure exposes shambles at SASCOC

  • Inside the Blogs

Congratulations to the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) on becoming the first sporting organisation to have a full-blown crisis in 2018. The trophy is in the post.

Maybe, the money would have been helpful in boosting the standard of the men's and women's hockey teams


Nick Butler: Thomas Bach has Kim Jong-un to thank for his greatest triumph as IOC President so far

  • Inside the Blogs

It is typical of the peculiar world we live in today that the greatest success for Thomas Bach as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) so far was made possible by a moment of uncharacteristic diplomacy by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

possible that athletes from the North and South could feature together as part of a joint women's ice hockey

I would guess the possible pan-Korean ice hockey team, which was exclusively reported about by insidethegames

official confirmed it, was an idea originally drawn-up in Lausanne, perhaps in partnership with ice hockey

authorities desperate to revive an event already tainted by the absence of National Hockey League players


Women's weightlifting: a long journey from naked weigh-ins to hijab-wearing heroine who inspired Iran

  • The Big Read

On the first weekend of February, women and girls will compete in an official weightlifting competition in Iran for the first time, bringing down one of the remaining barriers to global gender equality in a sport that had the words "for men only" in its rule book for nearly 90 years.

of the International Olympic Committee, and the Olympic sports that forbade women included cycling, hockey


North Korea and South Korea could share competition-testing bobsleigh at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Pyeongchang 2018

North Korea and South Korea could share a four-man sled to test conditions before bobsleigh competition starts at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

South Korea's Vice Sports Minister Roh Tae-kang confirming the country has proposed a combined ice hockey

of Pyeongchang 2018.insidethegames exclusively revealed last week that a joint Korean ice hockey


World Para Ice Hockey announce schedule for Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic competition

  • Para Ice Hockey News

World Para Ice Hockey have announced the schedule for Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic competition, with hosts

crowd in Group B.They are due to face Japan in the second match on March 10, the first day of para ice hockey

Italy, who are both featuring in Group A.Canada and Sweden will round off the day at the Gangneung Hockey



India hockey captain warns country must improve to earn Gold Coast 2018 glory

  • Gold Coast 2018

India must convert their weaknesses into strengths if they are to win the men's hockey gold medal at

the Press Trust of India that the team had identified a number of key areas to work on following the Hockey

After the Hockey World League Final, we recognised some of the areas that we were lacking in," said Singh.India

lost the Glasgow 2014 men's hockey final to Australia ©Getty Images"We knew we can do better in defence

India are set to resume their fierce hockey rivalry with Pakistan at Gold Coast 2018 as the two Asian