Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli has urged great efforts to be made on the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway network for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after visiting the construction site today.

Zhangjiakou in Hebei province.It will link the three venue clusters for the Games with curling, ice hockey

A five-year partnership between the Agitos Foundation and the Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD) has been announced, with both organisations aiming to work together to raise awareness and knowledge of Para-sport across the world.

European Para snow sport youth circuit, as well as helping with the promotion of the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

Germany thrashed Japan as three final ice hockey qualification tournaments for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter

missed out on the Sochi 2014 Games, eased to a 5-0 success in Latvia's capital Riga.Seven National Hockey

the World Championship except for two who are new but we know each other and it’s great for German hockey

An Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) Disciplinary Committee has called on Brazilian authorities to remove the record of criminal proceedings brought against nine athletes from the country who gained access to a Rio 2016 basketball semi-final with tampered accreditation.

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

The cow jumped, not over the moon, but over a decently high pole vault bar last night in Zurich’s Hauptbahnhof - and those watching loved it.

more than average ability.Speculation has turned this mascot, which emerged in 2009 at the World Ice Hockey

The line-up for the Pyeongchang 2018 men’s ice hockey event is soon to be complete with Belarus, Latvia

joined by the top eight nations in the men’s world rankings following last year’s International Ice Hockey

LLU.His son Herberts is a member of the Latvian national team, which has earned its spot in Olympic ice hockey

Lee, the President of Pyeongchang 2018, said he is confident the next Winter Games will feature ice hockey

players from the National Hockey League (NHL).

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has claimed that they were "once again leading the drive to

FIH was very happy to be one of the pioneering sports because we are totally dedicated to keeping hockey

activities, the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL).A total of 1,224 top-level hockey

NADO).Those undertaking the educational course included all 432 athletes going to Rio.As part of its "Hockey

Revolution", FIH aims to "build a recognised, powerful image" for hockey and at the core of this is

Leonids Beresnevs has resigned as the head coach of the Latvian national men’s ice hockey team,

and then continued playing for Riga in the Latvian league after that.The Latvian national men’s ice hockey

tournament for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics later this week ©Getty ImagesExperienced Latvian ice hockey

head coach from 1999 to 2001, where he led the national team to eighth place at the International Ice Hockey

Two American figure skaters have applied for South Korean citizenship with an eye on competing at the country's home 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

, where the host nation will be desperate for success.German-born luger Aileen Frisch, Canadian ice hockey

The recently launched Olympic Channel has announced that it will broadcast 35 upcoming live events across a variety of sports, in partnership with a number of International Federations (IFs).

These include ice hockey Olympic qualifiers for Pyeongchang 2018, as well as a number of other world-class

An internal investigation looking into how Australian athletes were detained by police after attending a Rio 2016 basketball match has reportedly discovered that a further 80 athletes gained access to the game.

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

The first Chinese team to enter the Kontinental Ice Hockey League (KHL) will be able to play their

Beijing.The venue, which was built to host basketball at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, will also host ice hockey

 China is hoping to improve as an ice hockey nation ahead of Beijing 2022 ©Getty ImagesRed Star's

“I think it’s a good step before the 2022 Olympics in Beijing,” said International Ice Hockey Federation

China has been receiving support from ice hockey power the Czech Republic ahead of their Beijing Games

Sidney Crosby has been named as Canada’s captain for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto as he looks

to gold in the same way he did at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games and the 2015 International Ice Hockey

their respective club teams," said Doug Armstrong, Canada’s general manager at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey

serve as alternate captains ©Getty ImagesMike Babcock, head coach of Canada at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey

The third edition of the World Cup of Hockey is due to take place 12 years after the second.The tournament

Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) officials Kevin Kilty and Stephen Martin have reportedly told Brazilian police today that the organisation's President Patrick Hickey made all decisions regarding ticketing.

evidence will now be analysed.”Both Kilty and Martin, winner of an Olympic gold medal as part of Britain's hockey

The International Floorball Federation (IFF) is looking for organisers to host its women’s World Championships in 2021 and the men’s equivalent in 2022.

accepted as a member of the International World Games Association in May 2013.Floorball is a type of floor hockey