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Dijkema modernising ISU as the shadow of EU ruling looms

  • The Big Read

Jan Dijkema is already more than halfway through his two-year term as President of the International Skating Union, and awaiting an imminent European Commission ruling on a test case involving two speed skaters that could have critical consequences for the shape of the continent’s future sport.

play a key part in the Winter Olympics.Given the current dispute which looks likely to keep NHL ice hockey



Canada out for revenge at 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge

  • Para Ice Hockey News

Canada will be hoping to get one over arch-rivals the United States during the 2017 World Sledge Hockey

tournament will allow the four competing nations the chance to lay down a marker prior to the Para ice hockey

The World Sledge Hockey Challenge offers an exciting opportunity for the public to see some of the world


Former Russia ice hockey captain urges IOC to investigate Norway because of high number of top athletes

  • Olympics

Former Russian ice hockey captain Alexander Smirnov has claimed Norwegian skiers who suffer from asthma

captain of Russian team at the 1994 Olympics in LIllehammer and who is now the coach of Kontinental Hockey

have so far been disqualified in five sports.This does not yet include any in Smirnov's sport of ice hockey

showing readings that were allegedly physically impossible to be held by a woman.The International Ice Hockey

pursuing "punitive measures" in dealing with Russia's doping scandal is "putting the health of ice hockey


Hosts Nicaragua targeting baseball gold at 11th Central American Games

  • Multi-Sport Games

Seven countries are due to compete in 27 full sports over 15 days of competition at the 11th edition of the Central American Games scheduled to start tomorrow in Managua.

Olympic sports of aquatics, athletics, basketball, boxing, cycling, fencing, football, golf, handball, hockey




Ledecky and Snyder named Olympic Athletes of the Year at Team USA Awards

  • PASO

Katie Ledecky and Kyle Snyder have been named as Female and Male Olympic Athletes of the Year at the Team USA Awards in Los Angeles.

kids, and to leave our world a little better for future generations.”The United States women’s ice hockey

the World Para Athletics Championships.Having won a third straight world title, the US National Sled Hockey


Rio 2016 rematch to headline group stages at Men's Hockey World League Final in India

  • Hockey

last year's Games in Rio de Janeiro after the two sides were drawn together in Pool A of the Men's Hockey

10).The Netherlands and Spain join Argentina and Belgium in Pool A.Pool B is comprised of defending Hockey

also be a dress rehearsal for Indian organisers as Bhubaneswar is scheduled to host the 2018 Men's Hockey

World Cup.Australia come into the event hoping to retain their Hockey World League title ©Getty ImagesAustralia


FIL President claims blanket Russian ban would be "unfair" and backs country to compete at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Luge

International Luge Federation (FIL) President Josef Fendt has become the latest winter sports official to speak out against a blanket ban of Russian athletes at Pyeongchang 2018.

investigation by the IOC Disciplinary Commission for alleged doping.It comes after the International Ice Hockey

yesterday.Ice hockey's worldwide governing body also criticised the IOC for "putting the health of ice hockey


United States drawn to face host nation in Para ice hockey at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Para Ice Hockey News

Defending champions the United States will face hosts South Korea in the group stages of the Para ice hockey

to the number one seeding after they beat their rivals to win the gold medal at the World Para Ice Hockey

triumph over Norway in the bronze medal match at the event.Canada are the top seeds for the Para ice hockey

the number seven seeding and Sweden are eighth.The two sides also secured their place in the Para ice hockey

Republic in the final, and Sweden clinched the last available spot by finishing third.The Para ice hockey

competition at Pyeongchang 2018 will take place at the Gangneung Hockey Centre from March 10 to 18.


IOC accused of putting health of ice hockey at risk if ban Russia from Pyeongchang 2018

  • Ice Hockey

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has declared its support for Russia competing at Pyeongchang

pursuing "punitive measures" in dealing with Russia's doping scandal is "putting the health of ice hockey

Russia’s role in the growth and development of ice hockey cannot be understated.

published - as part of a "highly-structured testing programme".This was initiated by the Russian Ice Hockey

Federation and the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in conjunction with the IIHF."

announcement from the IIHF comes despite the Oswald Commission investigating seven female ice hockey



Aussie rules for Australian Swimming chief who steps down and switch sports

  • Swimming

Swimming Australia chief executive Mark Anderson is to step down next year shortly before the start of the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast to take on a new role at Australian Football League (AFL) club Collingwood,

in his role until the end of the Commonwealth Games selection trials in February.He was in charge at Hockey

commercial sense in securing landmark sponsorship and broadcast deals across the AFL, swimming and hockey


British ice hockey legend Murray passes away after a lifetime of devotion to his sport

  • Ice Hockey

British ice hockey great John Murray - who was inducted into the British Ice Hockey Association (BIHA

Born in London in January 1924, Murray served British ice hockey as a player, coach, manager and as a

BIHA Council member.He started to play ice hockey when he was 11, around the time the Wembley Arena,

Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz, Switzerland, when Great Britain was last represented with an ice hockey

team.Murray also played at the International Ice Hockey Federation Ice Hockey World Championships in

 It was revived in 1986 by the British Ice Hockey Writers' Association.