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IOC Commission awards $20,000 development grants to projects across the world

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Sport and Active Society Commission has announced the winners of development grants, each worth $20,000 (£14,000/€18,000), that will go to organisations running "effective sport for all programmes" in their communities.

Our four winners are delivering effective sport for all programmes that use netball, cricket, hockey,



Kunlun Red Star inclusion in KHL is first step to China fielding team at Beijing 2022, Chernyshenko claims

  • Beijing 2022

Dmitry Chernyshenko has heralded the inclusion of Kunlun Red Star in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL

The KHL President believes the team can become the "centre of ice hockey expertise for the entire nation

ahead of the current season.They began their debut appearance in the KHL, considered the second best hockey

league in the world behind the National Hockey League which includes teams from Belarus, Croatia, Finland

expect to witness rapid growth in the number of individuals taking up the sport and in the number of hockey

“This is why we are confident that this club will become the centre of ice hockey expertise for the entire


Liam Morgan: Weddings, chopsticks and police escorts - Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission visit does not disappoint

  • Inside the Blogs

Picture inadvertently crashing a wedding, being mercilessly mocked for an inability to use chopsticks and enduring a lengthy delay to allow the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials to receive the VIP treatment in the city of Zhangjiakou and you have a pretty accurate summation of my recent visit to China for the first Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission inspection.

was the LeSports Center - the home of basketball at Beijing 2008 - which will be turned into an ice hockey

example of Olympic Legacy.The LeSports Center is due to be converted from a basketball stadium to a hockey


Former Sports Minister Arbib elected to Australian Olympic Committee Executive

  • ONOC

Former Sports Minister Mark Arbib has been elected to the Australian Olympic Committee’s (AOC) Executive after Ian Chesterman was appointed to replace the retired Peter Montgomery as vice-president. 

the role ahead of Cheryl Bart, a Board member of Football Federation Australia, three-time Olympic hockey


Temporary rink to be installed at Eiffel Tower ahead of 2017 IIHF World Championships in France and Germany

  • Ice Hockey

A temporary ice hockey rink will be installed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris to allow

location for people to play the sport as the Organising Committee attempts to ramp up enthusiasm for ice hockey

Anne Yannic, chief executive of the Eiffel Tower Operating Company, during a 2017 International Ice Hockey

stages will be in Cologne.The two venues offer a total of 886,000 tickets for the 64 games, an Ice Hockey


Leman and Robertson confirmed as only candidates in running to succeed Coe as BOA chairman

  • EOC

The shortlist of nominees to succeed Sebastian Coe and become the next chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been confirmed.

time after he initially put himself forward 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.

 Great Britain Hockey President Richard Leman is the other candidate running for the position ©LinkedIn"There


First Finland player to participate in National Hockey League dies aged 61

  • Ice Hockey

Matti Hagman, the first Finnish player to take part in the National Hockey League (NHL), has died at

illness but the exact cause of death has not yet been confirmed, according to the International Ice Hockey

Matti was a fireman [also a hockey player] and I decided to come over right then because Matti was.”Hagman


Scotland backs plan for single ice hockey governing body in Britain

  • Ice Hockey

Scotland have backed a proposal for one governing body for ice hockey to be established to oversee the

sport in Britain, Ice Hockey UK (IHUK) chairman Richard Grieveson has claimed.

Grieveson addressed Scottish Ice Hockey (SIH) at Murrayfield Ice Rink in Edinburgh and outlined his plan

I will now report back to the Ice Hockey UK board and develop a time-bound action plan to move this forward

Ice Hockey UK chairman Richard Grieveson claims to have support from England and Scotland to establish

 Grieveson claims to have the support of International Ice Hockey Federation President René Fasel

 "These are exciting times for our sport and if we all work together, it will benefit ice hockey



Paralympic champions head entries for NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters

  • Wheelchair Tennis

Reigning Paralympic champions Jiske Griffioen, Gordon Reid and Dylan Alcott are the leading entries for the season ending NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in London, it has been announced.

The tournament, due to take place from November 30 until December 4, will be staged at the Lee Valley Hockey





Nick Butler: Pyeongchang 2018 have much work to do but their compact Games has real potential

  • Inside the Blogs

Stuck in a monumental traffic jam on the drive south-west to Incheon Airport, I was beginning to get worried we would not make it in time for the flight. Cue plenty of gesticulating, waving and smiling to the non-English speaking driver in an attempt to ask him how long it would take.

 Aside from the still-ongoing discussion over the participation of National Hockey League (NHL)

players, which the IOC claim have "progressed" while the International Ice Hockey Federation seem less