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Delegates arrive for ONOC General Assembly in Fiji

  • ONOC

Representatives from Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) member nations are arriving here as the organisation prepares to stage its Annual General Assembly.

Games and the Tonga 2019 Pacific Games, with presentations due to be made on Friday (March 31).Oceania Hockey


Australian Sports Minister denies taking sides in Presidential election race

  • ONOC

Australian Sports Minister Greg Hunt has rejected claims that the Federal Government is taking sides in the country’s Olympic Committee's Presidential election race. 

Danielle Roche, who won Olympic hockey gold at the Atlanta 1996 Games, announced earlier this month her

a salary of around AUS$700,000 (£428,000/$534,000/€494,000).Roche, nominated for the Presidency by Hockey


USA Hockey meet opposition in search for replacement players amid boycott crisis

  • Ice Hockey

USA Hockey are facing a race against time to field a team at their home Women's Ice Hockey World Championships

Plymouth, which begins on Friday (March 31).The women's national side remain at loggerheads with USA Hockey

ongoing dispute over wages, which prompted them to threaten not to compete at the International Ice Hockey

counter-offer last week, putting their participation at the tournament further into doubt, and USA Hockey

have Brittany Ott of Boston Pride and Annie Panko, a junior forward at the University of Wisconsin.USA Hockey

 The impasse comes with the tournament at the USA Hockey Arena due to begin in less than a week,



Aboriginal skater's Olympic hopes may rest on Russian partner's mother learning English

  • Skating

Harley Windsor is hoping to become the first Aboriginal Australian to reach the Winter Olympics by earning a qualifying place at this week's International Skating Union (ISU) World Figure Skating Championships - but his fate could ultimately rest on whether the mother of his Russian partner in the pairs, Yekaterina Alexandrovskaya, can learn English in time.

gold for an indigenous athlete, however, as Nova Peris was part of the victorious Australian women's hockey

indigenous Australian athletes were selected for last year's Rio Olympics across beach volleyball, hockey


Australian Aboriginal skater on brink of making Winter Olympic history

  • The Big Read

As you read this, two young figure skaters are training hard on an ice rink. They are in Moscow; they are on the brink of making history.

for an indigenous athlete, however, as Nova Peris had been part of the victorious Australian women's hockey

indigenous Australian athletes were selected for last year's Rio Olympics across beach volleyball, hockey



Pyeongchang 2018 release pictograms for Winter Paralympics

  • Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympics

Pyeongchang 2018 have unveiled the official sport pictograms for next year’s Winter Paralympic Games.

Paralympic Winter Games.The Paralympic disciplines of alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice hockey

2018 are currently preparing for the final Paralympic test event before the Games, with the Gangneung Hockey

Centre scheduled to host the World Para Ice Hockey Championships from April 11 to 20.The top five teams




IOC remain hopeful of NHL participation at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Pyeongchang 2018

International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials remain hopeful a deal can still be reached with the National Hockey

after negotiations stalled between the NHL, the NHL Players' Association (NHLPA), the International Ice Hockey

The fans want to see the best hockey players taking part in the Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018


Swedish biathlon star to feature in Eurosport Pyeongchang 2018 coverage

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Biathlon legend Magdalena Forsberg has joined Eurosport Sweden’s team of former athletes spearheading its coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

 Forsberg joins ice hockey player Peter Forsberg, cross-country skier Anders Sodergren and Alpine



David Owen: All for one and one for all? Bach puts his four musketeers on the spot over 2028

  • Inside the Blogs

It seems a typically clever move by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to appoint his four vice presidents to a working group to, as the news release put it, “explore changes to the candidature procedure” with “everything…on the table”.

incidentally, we learnt this week, is facing a challenge to his AOC Presidency from Danielle Roche, an Olympic hockey