Beijing 2022 Coordination Commission chair Alexander Zhukov will miss the planned inspections of the Zhangjiakou and Zanqing zones as he is returning to Moscow later today for a "very important" meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow.

to Beijing.This included the Beijing Olympic Tower, the National Indoor Stadium, which will host ice hockey

Fiona de Jong has resigned as chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and will officially step down from the role at the end of this year, it was announced today.

Jenkins, archers Alec Potts and Ryan Tyack, rowers Olympia Aldersey, Fiona Albert and Lucy Stephan and hockey

Hockey Canada have announced their 19-player squad for ice sledge hockey competitions in the 2016-17

The first test of the squad will be the Ice Sledge Hockey World Challenge in December ©Getty ImagesBrad

McGregor will be a full-time alternate captain.The first test for the squad will be the 2016 World Sledge Hockey

A railway network being built here for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will include the world’s deepest and largest high-speed rail station, according to Chinese media.

closest to the city centre - the Beijing Olympic Tower, the National Indoor Stadium, which will host ice hockey

Dave King will serve as head coach of the men's Canadian ice hockey team at the 2016 Deutschland Cup,

1984 and 1988 Winter Games and steered his charges to a bronze medal at the 1982 International Ice Hockey

Federation (IIHF) World Championship.King, a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame, has coached in the National Hockey

Blue Jackets.He was most recently in charge of Russian side Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, of the Kontinental Hockey

a variety of tournaments and competitions, and it’s great to have him back with Team Canada," said Hockey

It is less than a year until the destiny of the 2024 Olympics will be revealed when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meet in Lima.

Players from the National Hockey League (NHL) had been prevented from taking part in the Olympic ice

hockey tournament but now the doors were opened.

Beijing 2022 will undergo a stringent test of the preparations for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission conducts its first visit to the Chinese capital, which begins on Monday (October 10).

of facilities, including the Beijing Olympic Tower, the National Indoor Stadium, which will host ice hockey

The Latvian Ice Hockey Federation (LHF) has elected the country's former Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis

natural gas company Latvijas Gaze.Kalvitis, elected at the LHF Congress, is a co-owner of the Kontinental Hockey

League (KHL) side Dinamo Riga, while his son Karlis represented Latvia at the 2010 International Ice Hockey

National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) representatives have agreed to pay an inspection

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel has, however, painted a less positive

how reaching a deal was "even more difficult" than before, and claimed during the recent World Cup of Hockey

A NHL technical inspection visit will take place at the Gangneung Hockey Centre towards the end

hopeful while praising Pyeongchang 2018 for the logistical help that they are providing.International Ice Hockey

Federation President René Fasel (left) and National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman have so

Former USA Hockey President Ron DeGregorio is to lead the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)

previous role now being taken up by Germany’s Franz Reindl.Vladislav Tretiak, President of the Ice Hockey

Jack Kirrane, the captain of the United States’ gold medal-winning ice hockey team at the 1960 Winter

Jack McCartan (right) were all team-mates of Jack Kirrane in the United States' gold medal-winning ice hockey

also a veteran of the Korean War but never saw combat, his son said.Kirrane was inducted into the US Hockey

Hall of Fame in 1987 and is a member Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame.He is survived by three children

South African hockey has been given a boost after the sport’s worldwide governing body confirmed the

nation would host a joint men’s and women’s Hockey World League (HWL) semi-final next year.

The event, scheduled to be held from July 8 to 23 at the Randburg Hockey Turf in Johannesburg, is the

first major International Hockey Federation (FIH) competition to be staged in South Africa since 2011

.Hockey in the nation suffered a severe blow when men’s and women’s teams were denied the chance to compete

Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park had already been confirmed as the venue for the first men’s Hockey

World League semi-final ©Getty ImagesThe Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on the Queen Elizabeth

Reflections on what was learnt attending Rio 2016 will form part of the latest Pyeongchang 2018 Coordination Commission inspection visit due to begin here tomorrow.

René Fasel, the respective Presidents of the International Ski Federation and the International Ice Hockey

United States President Barack Obama has described the decisions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as "similar to FIFA" and a "little bit cooked" while reflecting on Chicago's unsuccessful bid for the 2016 Games.

openly gay athletes in former tennis player Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow, a two-time Olympic ice hockey

Spain were crowned winners of the Women's World Championship of Rink Hockey after beating their rivals