Russian ice hockey player Anna Shokhina has been cleared of wrongdoing by the International Olympic Committee

Six of Shokhina's team-mates on the Russian women's ice hockey squad at the 2014 Winter Olympics - Inna

from competing at all future editions of the Olympic Games.The sanctions mean the entire Russian ice hockey

Sochi 2014 for their involvement in the doping scandal.Anna Shibanova is among the six Russian ice hockey

curling teams are eligible to participate at Pyeongchang 2018 as part of the OAR team.Three of the ice hockey

sanctioned - Shibanova, Smolentseva and Skiba - competed for Russia at this year's International Ice Hockey

The Russian Olympic Committee has voted unanimously to agree to let the country's athletes compete under a neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018.

Russia's ice hockey captain Ilya Kovalchuk promised they would try twice as hard at Pyeongchang 2018

play under a neutral flag and will not hear their national anthem if they win ©TwitterRussia national hockey

Ice hockey players Mitchell and Lachlan Frear have been banned for two years by the Sports Tribunal of

A member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) communications team half-forced a smile at the end of the Executive Board meeting last week when asked if they were hoping for an easier end to the year.

Others bemoan how compromises such as Russian ice hockey and curling teams, the name “Olympic Athletes

Australia beat Olympic champions Argentina 2-1 in the final of the Men's Hockey World League in Bhubaneswar

win.Harmanpreet Singh, centre, scored the winning goal as India beat Germany 2-1 in the bronze medal match of the Hockey

World League tournament in Bhubaneswar ©Getty ImagesAfter seeing his side win their second consecutive Hockey

United States held off a Canadian fightback to clinch their fourth consecutive World Sledge Hockey Challenge

previously been level with Canada on five.South Korea won bronze after a thrilling match against Italy ©Hockey

Defending champions Australia will face Olympic gold medallists Argentina for the Men's Hockey World

Actor and singer Jang Keun-suk, known as the "Prince of Asia", has been appointed as the latest ambassador of Pyeongchang 2018, it has been announced.

 "He plans to watch an ice hockey event together with his fans to relay his thanks and contribute

Jean-Philippe Rochat has resigned as President of Sion's bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games after being linked to the Panama Papers.

jumping would take place in Kanderstag.A separate referendum is due to be held in Bern - where ice hockey

Olympic champions Argentina are through to the Hockey World League title after a tense victory over India

from a penalty corner in torrential rain at the Kalinga Stadium.They will now face reigning world and Hockey

 But an equaliser would not come and Argentina are now one win away from adding the Hockey World

India's Harmanpreet Singh fights for the ball with Argentina's Maico Casella during the semi-final of the Hockey

happy as a team and also for him.”That contest will be followed by the second of the semi-finals with Hockey

Earlier, The Netherlands defeated England 1-0 to cement seventh place.The winner came from Hockey Stars

Winter sporting governing bodies have been reminded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that only they have the authority to define details of Russia's neutral participation at Pyeongchang 2018.

This follows a report by Russian website Sport Express that the International Ice Hockey Federation

(IIHF) had told the Russian Ice Hockey Federation that players from a Russian team would be able to

defending Olympic champions Canada and the United States will be without players from the National Hockey

team will have to participate under a neutral flag at Pyeongchang 2018 ©Getty ImagesKontinental Hockey

involvement in the doping scandal.A decision has yet to been announced, however, on seven female ice hockey

International Fencing Federation (FIE) President Alisher Usmanov has called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to perform a U-turn and allow Russian athletes to participate under their own flag at Pyeongchang 2018.

Hosts Canada will meet the United States in the 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge final after recording

securing a comfortable win over South Korea.The United States will face Canada in tomorrow's final ©Hockey

I am concerned about the next Winter Olympic Games.

Lake Placid provided stunning victories for the Americans, culminating in the nation's ice hockey team

college boys, sensationally defeating the mighty Soviet Union, the dominant team in international ice hockey

Olympic champions Argentina battled through to the semi-finals of the Men's Hockey World League Final