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USOC to increase financial rewards for medal winners at major competitions

  • PASO

American athletes are set to see their accomplishments recognised more than ever as the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is increasing its Operation Gold payments to medal winners.

November were announced.Paralympic snowboarder Mike Minor, fencer Anna van Brummen and the women’s ice hockey

women’s épée title at the International Fencing Federation World Cup in Suzhou in China.The women’s ice hockey



USOC and USA Hockey discuss "plan B" for Pyeongchang 2018 participation if no NHL deal reached

  • Ice Hockey

United States Olympic Committee (USOC) officials have discussed a "Plan B" with USA Hockey over how they

will participate at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games if players from the National Hockey League

We have had discussions with USA Hockey about a Plan B if that does not happen," USOC chief executive

An artists impression of the Gangneung Hockey Centre due to host competition at Pyeongchang 2018 ©Pyeongchang

around $10 million (£7 million/€9 million) due to the long flights involved to Korea.International Ice Hockey

within the sport and from other supporters.But others are worried that, by calling on bodies like USA Hockey


Gangneung Ice Arena officially declared open prior to Pyeongchang 2018 short track test event

  • Pyeongchang 2018

A ceremony has taken place today to mark the completion of the Gangneung Ice Arena due to be used for short track and figure skating competition at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

venues for ice sports are currently in the final stages of construction.These consist of the Gangneung Hockey

Gangneung Oval speed skating venue as well as the Gangneung Curling Centre and the nearby Kwandong Hockey


FIFA signs co-operation agreement with Olympic Channel

  • Olympics

FIFA has today become the 36th International Federation (IF) to sign a co-operation agreement with the Olympic Channel, marking an end to an extensive period of negotiations between the two organisations.

ClimbingInternational Fencing FederationInternational Golf FederationInternational Gymnastics FederationInternational Hockey

FederationInternational Ice Hockey FederationInternational Judo FederationInternational Luge FederationInternational




Nick Butler: Was last week a watershed moment in the IOC’s response to Russian doping?

  • Inside the Blogs

Richard McLaren’s 144-page report on Russian doping published last week was exactly what some sporting bodies have spent the past five months publicly calling for but privately hoping would never emerge: a smorgasbord of evidence implicating thousands of athletes which was damning yet also meticulous. In short, irrefutable proof that the world’s largest country was cheating not only to the level alleged, but to an even greater extent.

all tied their skis resolutely on the fence in their statements last week (with the International Ice Hockey


Pirelli signs long-term deal with FIS World Alpine Ski Championships and IIHF World Championships

  • News

covers the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Alpine Ski Championships and the International Ice Hockey

distributed across 70 countries, and is set to reach up to one billion viewers worldwide.For the IIHF Ice Hockey

Firstly, it has allowed us to sample the huge potential of ice hockey and the relevance to our sales

added: "Brought in by Infront, Pirelli joined the official sponsor contingent at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey






Brian Oliver: There is something not quite right about UK Sport's "jolly hockey sticks" funding list

  • Inside the Blogs

Was it mere coincidence that UK Sport chose last Friday, the day when the media was hungry to hear the latest revelations about Russian cheats, to announce its funding plans for the next Olympic cycle?

There is something not quite right about this "jolly hockey sticks" funding list.Does it really make

Every medal won has cost £5.5 million ($7 million/€6.5 million), so giving hockey £18 million is already

money for Rebekah Tiler could help her to promote her sport among girls who may not be from "jolly hockey


Olympic Stadiums through the years - a tale of new and old

  • The Big Read

Although the design of the Tokyo stadium has been revised from the late Zaha Hadid’s original plans, it is still expected to be a magnificent backdrop for the 2020 Olympics. It will be the first time that two entirely different arenas on the same site have both staged the Games.

During the Games, it staged a wide range of sport including gymnastics, archery, wrestling, hockey, rugby