The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has claimed there "is not a shred of truth" in suggestions that they are planning to form a new Integrity Unit to oversee anti-doping and match fixing issues.

- WADA - to maintain the faith and confidence of the athlete community," the four-time Olympic ice hockey

Russia booked their place in the semi-finals of the World Cup of Hockey with a comfortable 3-0 victory

rubber, as the two teams went in pursuit of a positive end to the first edition of the World Cup of Hockey

We just didn’t find a way to win the hockey game."

Proposed locations for a number of sports should Los Angeles be successful with its attempt at securing the hosting rights for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics have been changed after the Bid Committee revealed it had added three existing venues to “enhance” its Games concept.

Anaheim, which has a capacity of just over 17,000 when the Anaheim Ducks play there in the National Hockey

Germany's men and The Netherlands' women have retained their number one spots in the International Hockey

2015 that the rankings have been updated, with the last modification following that year's FIH Indoor Hockey

title in Prague - leading the way ahead of Austria who were runners-up in the Czech capital.Indoor hockey

Team North America kept their hopes of reaching the World Cup of Hockey semi-finals alive as they claimed

records.Russia beat North America 4-3 earlier on at the tournament, the first edition of the World Cup of Hockey

beat the United States 4-2 to condemn their near-neighbours to a group stage exit at the World Cup of Hockey

 The tournament is being staged for the first time in 12 years by the National Hockey League (NHL

Celebratory events marking the achievements of British Olympians and Paralympians at Rio 2016 will be held in Manchester and London on October 17 and 18 respectively, it has been announced.

winner of the the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres double for the second Games in a row, and the women’s hockey

The Belarusian Ice Hockey Association (BIHA) has signed a deal with Sportradar's Fraud Detection System

 "The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and National Hockey League, the world’s largest

ice hockey organisations, have already signed up with Sportradar.

 The world's largest ice hockey organisations have already signed up to Sportradar ©Getty Images"We

world, in the wake of our work with the International Ice Hockey Federation and the North American NHL

, so it is great to see another critical ice hockey nation sign up to our award-winning Fraud Detection

Russia kept their World Cup of Hockey hopes alive by beating the combined North America side 4-3 in their

tournament is being hosted at the Air Canada Centre for the first time in 12 years by the National Hockey

Four-time Olympic athletics champion Mo Farah and 14-time Grand Slam winning tennis player Rafael Nadal are among another 26 athletes whose leaked data has been revealed by hacking group Fancy Bears after a cyber-attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

 Also named is gold and silver medal winning cyclist Callum Skinner and a trio of hockey players

 They are joined by Argentinian men's hockey gold medallists Lucas Rey and Facundo Callioni, Belgium's

hockey silver medallist Loick Luypaert, Danish cyclist Niklas Larsen and handball player Casper Mortensen.Rafael

North America select team stunned Finland with a 4-1 victory on the second day of the World Cup of Hockey

far too strong for a country ranked number three in the world.Finland have won the International Ice Hockey

day one in Group A yesterday.The tournament is hosted for the first time in 12 years by the National Hockey

Three new members have been voted onto the Athletes' Commission of the Australian Olympic Committee following the Rio 2016 Games.

Shelley Watts have been elected to the roles by members of the 2016 Australian Olympic team, alongside hockey

Dwyer and the Australian men's hockey team were eliminated in the quarter-finals by The Netherlands but

Team Europe produced an opening day shock by slaying United States 3-0 as the World Cup of Hockey returned

organised defence with clinical attacking in a match-up which appeared more familiar to a golf than an ice hockey

A Sidney Crosby-inspired Canada swept to victory in their opening game ©Getty ImagesIce hockey normality

North American team.Competition is set to continue until October 1 in what marks the first World Cup of Hockey

A host of National Hockey Players (NHL) are due to take to the ice during the first World Cup of Hockey

representing their country at the Olympics in the South Korean resort – something which the World Cup of Hockey

day tomorrow ©World Cup of HockeyThe Canadians will get their pursuit of a successful World Cup of Hockey

There was a time when the raison d'etre of the old school British Olympic Association (BOA) seemed to be that the "boys and girls", as the athletes were called, marched in unison at the Opening Ceremonies of the Games and that the blazers of the copious squad of officials accompanying them were suitably pressed and brass-buttoned up. 

Leman could stand against Hugh Robertson ©Getty ImagesHowever, it is now reported that former Olympic hockey

gold medallist Richard Leman, president of GB Hockey, is considering standing against Robertson.Leman

, 57, a member of the winning GB hockey team in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, had been Lord Colin Moynihan's

he does I hope he wins as I believe he would make a decent chair of the BOA.Like Leman he was a keen hockey