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Oleg Matytsin: Almaty is ready to host 2017 Winter Universiade

  • Inside the Blogs
  • 29 Dec 2016 12:33

The end of December, particularly in those countries celebrating Christmas and New Year, provides a fresh opportunity to wonder at the way sport can bring people together. Both professional and university teams serve as focal points.

Almaty is ready.The Ice Arena which will host the ice hockey competition at Almaty 2017 ©Almaty 2017For

Hockey World Cup to expand to 16 teams from 2018 edition, FIH confirms

  • Hockey
  • 24 Dec 2016 09:56

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced the 2018 and 2022 editions of the World Cup will

Executive Board of hockey’s worldwide governing body gave the green light to the changes at the FIH Hockey

recommendations from the FIH Competitions Committee, but was not implemented during the recent men’s Junior Hockey

the host nation.However, the FIH claimed that the “decision was made too close to the start of the Hockey

Junior World Cups, which is why those competitions were still played using the existing Rules of Hockey

and Finals and the Champions Trophy.Earlier this week, the top 16 ranked nations in men’s and women’s hockey

FIH and Inas sign Memorandum of Understanding for development of Para-hockey

  • Hockey
  • 22 Dec 2016 18:14

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and

International Federation of Sport for Para-athletes with an Intellectual Disability (Inas) to develop Para-hockey

137 Member Associations and the 78 member organisations of Inas.The eventual aim is to integrate para-hockey

programme ©Euro HockeyThe partnership comes as part of the FIH’s 10-year strategic plan, dubbed the Hockey

This is an exciting time for our sport and in particular para-hockey," FIH President Narinder Batra said

Further details about the development of para-hockey are due to be released in the near future."

Signing this MoU is a significant step for both organisations and the sport of Para-hockey."

Angela Ruggiero: The American fast becoming a shining light for the Olympic Movement in 2017 and beyond

  • The Big Read
  • 21 Dec 2016 13:54

It is fair to say that 2016 has not been a vintage year for sports administrators. Too old, too stuck in the past and too out of touch with the needs and desires of the modern world are among common gripes. And, for all their powerful rhetoric about youth and innovation shown through gestures like adding skateboarding and surfing to the Tokyo 2020 programme, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been tarred with the same brush.

She won a gold medal at the start of a 16-year career with the US national women’s ice hockey team.This

change in the sport, not least because her Olympic debut coincided with the first appearance by National Hockey

the New York Islanders’ Project Hope and Children's Foundation, aiming to expand the growth of ice hockey

Exclusive: Ruggiero claims it is "immensely important" for NHL players to participate at Pyeongchang 2018

  • Ice Hockey
  • 25 Dec 2016 09:00

Commission chair and four-time Olympian Angela Ruggiero believes it is "immensely important" for National Hockey

Olympic Games ©Getty Images"At the end of the day, the Olympics will happen either way, but from a hockey

China's short-track speed skater Yang Yang, to help develop the sport further.Both the International Ice Hockey

less concerned about participating in the South Korean Games in Pyeongchang.But the International Ice Hockey