Seven winter sport athletes have been nominated for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council, with elections due to take place during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics.

Skarstein of Norway and Witold Skupień of Poland.The three winning candidates will replace Norwegian ice hockey

International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission representative Hayley Wickenheiser, a former ice hockey

The 2018 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championships are due to begin in the

things we can draw from this win," Bob Motzko, head coach of the 2018 US national junior team, told USA Hockey

players from its 2017 gold medal-winning squad, including Kieffer Bellows, the son of former National Hockey

When Narinder Batra was elected President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in November of

attacked a Pakistani spiritual leader with a series of abusive posts, were rightly condemned within the hockey

in response to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) placing hockey in the bottom three in 2013,

included the controversial scrapping of the Champions Trophy and Hockey World League Semi-Final and

Final events in place of a brand-new home and away league.Excitement returned in June when the Hockey

“We are always talking to Hockey India,” McCracken said earlier this month.

Wyatt has been appointed to replace David Luckes as sport and development director at the International Hockey

I’m really looking forward to starting next year and helping grow hockey across the world at all levels

London 2012 Olympic Games and the the 2015 Rugby World Cup.He competed at two World Cups during his hockey

Jon brings both an expert understanding of hockey and the skills required to push our sport to the next

 "He will therefore be a crucial component within our Hockey Revolution strategy which aims to make

hockey a global game that inspires the next generation."

Jason McCracken has resigned as chief executive of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) for personal

insidethegames.It has been claimed McCracken, a businessman who was the 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

nine men's and women's teams and is scheduled to launch in 2019.It replaces the Champions Trophy and Hockey

as part of an FIH overhaul of their competition portfolio.The withdrawal of India, one of the main hockey

comes as a blow to the FIH as McCracken had been tasked with continuing the governing body's 10-year Hockey

Sochi 2014 silver medallists Tatyana Ivanova and Albert Demchenko are among the 11 latest Russian athletes to be disqualified and banned from the Olympic Games for life by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

speed skaters Ivan Skobrev and Artem Kuznetcov, bobsledders Liudmila Udobkina and Maxim Belugin and ice hockey

bobsleigh teams who represented Russia at Sochi 2014 have now been sanctioned.The entire women's ice hockey

A number of star athletes from New Zealand will take part in the official cultural handover and farewell of the Gold Coast 2018 Queen's Baton Relay at Auckland Museum tomorrow.

joined by the likes of rugby sevens player Tyla Nathan-Wong, a Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallist, and hockey

Games medallist.Also in attendance will be boxer Alexis Pritchard, former sprinter Kim Robertson, ex-hockey

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was the special guest at a Commonwealth Games "have-a-go" sports event in Auckland as the Gold Coast 2018 Queen’s Baton continued its six-day tour of the country to celebrate the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

on as children took part in a range of Commonwealth sports such as athletics, badminton, gymnastics, hockey

A failed drugs test by Malaysian hockey goalkeeper Kumar Subramaniam has reportedly been blamed on slimming

Now it is up to the Malaysian Hockey Confederation, as say if they do not name a replacement for Kumar

Slovenian have unveiled the uniforms they will wear at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, at the Grand Hotel Union, Ljubljana.

Mateja Šimic, were required to model new uniforms.The OKS also presented the kit to be worn by the ice hockey

speed skating medalist Arianna Fontana and Florian Plancker, captain of the Italian Paralympic ice hockey

The Winter Universiade 2021, scheduled to take place in Lucerne, will receive an extra CHF 3 million (£2.2m/$3m/€2.5m) from the Swiss Government after a landslide vote of 181 to one.

Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, CHF 500,000 (£378,000/$507,000/€428,000) for the International Ice Hockey

Federation World Ice Hockey Championship, taking place in both Lausanne and Zurich, and CHF 6m (£4.5m

The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) has launched its first-ever Youth Games with the goal of inspiring young athletes.

place over four months.Sports will include football, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, handball, hockey

Rugby union legend Richie McCaw and former New Zealand hockey international Gemma McCaw brought the Gold

Twenty-five officials from 14 countries have been selected for next year's Hockey Women's World Cup in

Both men and women feature in the line-up as part of what is being billed as the International Hockey

Standley will assume the role of technical delegate.She undertook the same role at the recent  Hockey

England’s Sam Stickland, New Zealand’s Gavin Hawke and Anjali Sharma from India.Michelle Joubert, the FIH Hockey

experienced officials heading to London ©FIHThe Women's World Cup will take place at the Lee Valley Hockey

and Tennis Centre in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park between July 21 and August 5.FIH Hockey Stars