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Sport managers to take part in Agitos Foundation and Pyeongchang 2018 workshop

  • Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympics

A total of 19 sport managers are to take part in an Agitos Foundation and Pyeongchang 2018 workshop to help develop winter Para-sports.

of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Snow Sports Dimitrije Lazarovski and former Canadian ice hockey

by a sport managers and coaches workshop in February, which took place alongside the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

Estonia.A further session is planned to take place in Pyeongchang during March, where an ice sledge hockey

technical officials’ course and training camps in cross-country skiing, biathlon and ice sledge hockey


Exhibition games to take place across Canada ahead of 2017 IIHF World Junior Championships

  • Ice Hockey

Ten pre-tournament games will be played across Canada ahead of the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation

Toronto as well as farther afield.A schedule for the "RBC Road to the World Juniors" was announced by Hockey

bringing an international event such as the IIHF World Junior Championship to Canada," said Tom Renney, Hockey

But whether it’s World Juniors or one of our national events, Hockey Canada works closely with our partners

allows us to showcase these young stars of the game, while building on our nation’s passion for [ice] hockey


Leman and Robertson set to lock horns in contest to succeed Coe as BOA chairman

  • EOC

Richard Leman and Sir Hugh Robertson are due to lock horns in the battle to replace Sebastian Coe as chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) in elections held during a Board meeting tomorrow.

initially put himself forward against Coe in 2012, only to withdraw.The President of Great Britain Hockey

was part of the Olympic gold medal winning Great Britain hockey squad at Seoul 1988.




Olympic champion helps ZOC host Athlete Career Programme

  • ANOCA

The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) hosted a session of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athlete Career Programme.

sports including athletics, rowing, swimming, shooting, triathlon, football, volleyball, basketball, hockey

 Zimbabwe also won women's hockey gold at the heavily boycotted 1980 Olympics in Moscow. 



Sixty years on from Melbourne 1956 - an Olympics which faced familiar problems

  • The Big Read

It all sounds very familiar. Warnings about the lack of progress from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), disputes over venues, delays in construction, strikes by workers, health concerns and even a team of refugees. But this is not a tale from Rio 2016 but 60 years ago. 

In their ranks was hockey player Brian Booth, destined later to captain his country at cricket.



Six British Olympians elected to BOA Athletes’ Commission

  • EOC

Six athletes have been appointed to the British Olympic Association’s (BOA) Athletes’ Commission after voting among their peers.

number of athletes voting on who they want to represent them on the Athletes’ Commission," said Hawes, a hockey


Fasel remains hopeful over NHL participation at Pyeongchang 2018 after latest meeting

  • Ice Hockey

Limited progress appears to have been achieved in discussions over National Hockey League (NHL) participation

Representatives from the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), NHL and NHL Players' Association

he will be able to raise the money himself through IIHF funds and by soliciting help within the ice hockey

and from other supporters.International Ice Hockey Federation President René Fasel and NHL Commissioner

representatives are thought to have warned them that they do not want funds to be taken from other ice hockey



Van Niekerk and Puig scoop top honours at ANOC Awards Gala

  • ANOC News

South African 400 metres runner Wayde van Niekerk and Puerto Rican tennis player Monica Puig claimed the best male and best female athletes of Rio 2016 titles at tonight's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Awards Gala here.

beaten finalists on that occasion, but made amends with the best female team award courtesy of their hockey