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IPC and Nielsen Sports extend partnership leading up to Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

  • Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced an extension of its partnership with Nielsen Sports - the global leader in insights, analytics and consulting solutions in sport - running up to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Federation - athletics, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country, ice sledge hockey


South Africa end on a high at Hockey World League semi-final in Johannesburg

  • Hockey

South Africa ended their hosting of the Hockey World League semi-final on a high as they secured a fifth

 The result was enough to secure Ireland a spot at the Hockey World Cup for the first time since

Australia and Spain.The top five finishers at the semi-final event all secured places at next year’s Hockey



Marin to stay in charge of Canadian women's development ice hockey team

  • Ice Hockey

Hockey Canada has announced Noémie Marin will continue as head coach of the nation's women's development

Marin will return to the position she filled last campaign.She is currently the women’s hockey head coach

and 2006.Marin was also an assistant coach with Canada’s under-18 team at the 2015 International Ice Hockey

assistant coaches Carla MacLeod and Matt Desrosiers.Desrosiers has been in charge of women’s hockey

alumnai behind the bench,” said Melody Davidson, general manager of national women’s team programmes with Hockey




Australia reach penultimate round of men's Hockey World League semi-final

  • Hockey

Australia booked their place in the penultimate round of the men’s Hockey World League semi-finals after

Australia in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.All four nations have also guaranteed their place at the Hockey

.They join Argentina, England, The Netherlands - who took the first three positions at last month's Hockey

the grounds that all of the semi-finalists in Johannesburg are placed above them in the International Hockey


Korea Ice Hockey Association aim to use Pyeongchang 2018 as springboard for future development

  • Ice Hockey

Korea Ice Hockey Association (KIHA) President Chung Mong-won has outlined the national governing body

programmes should not cease after Pyeongchang 2018.South Korea’s men’s team, coached by former National Hockey

Pyeongchang 2018.It will mark South Korea’s first appearance in both the men’s and women’s Olympic ice hockey

22nd in the world ©Getty ImagesYonhap reports that KIHA intends to encourage more schools to form ice hockey

teams, aimed at increasing the pool of talent, and also train up ice hockey coaches and administrators

to Russian city Vladivostok next week for two friendly matches against a team from the Kontinental Hockey


United States through to penultimate stage of women's Hockey World League semi-final

  • Hockey

The United States secured their place in the penultimate round of the women’s Hockey World League semi-final

the 42nd minute at the University of the Witwatersrand.Victory for the US ensures their place at the Hockey

World League Final in Auckland in New Zealand at the end of this year and a direct ticket to the 2018 Hockey

Camille Nobis’ 29th-minute goal.Both Argentina and Germany have joined the US in qualifying for the 2018 Hockey

World Cup.England will join the trio at the Hockey World League Final alongside New Zealand, The Netherlands


Olympic basketball champion Scola named Buenos Aires 2018 ambassador

  • Buenos Aires 2018

Argentinian Olympic basketball champion Luis Scola has been named as an ambassador for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Buenos Aires.

scheduled to take place from October 6 to 18 next year, he joins fellow Argentinian and four-time Olympic hockey