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Cost of Olympic Channel put at $11 million in 2015

  • Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent just over $11 million (£8.3 million/€9.7 million) on its newly-launched Olympic Channel in 2015.

Taiwanese junior and cadet open table tennis on August 27 and 28, and the last round of Olympic ice hockey


Mike Rowbottom: Italy come home from Rio with an untold story

  • Inside the Blogs

As Britain’s Rio Olympians were arriving to a reception of heroic proportions this week to mark the nation’s best-ever performance at a foreign Games, Italy’s returning athletes were enjoying a similarly warm welcome upon their return to Rome.

meet the welcoming public ©insidethegamesBut I also recall a couple of members of the  women’s hockey


NHL strengthen game-integrity protection by signing deal with Sportradar

  • Ice Hockey

The National Hockey League (NHL) has added an “extra layer” to its anti-corruption services by signing

The NHL, the premier professional sports hockey league in the world, will use the FDS to monitor global

and now work with several federations and leagues, including UEFA, CONCACAF, the International Ice Hockey


David Owen: Team sports - where the most successful quango in recorded history still needs to think again

  • Inside the Blogs

Another Olympic Games, another huge British medal haul – it really should no longer come as a surprise.

sports.Rio 2016 has left me more than ever convinced that this should be done as a matter of urgency.The hockey

Hockey£16.1 millionWhat do you notice?

Right: hockey, the only purely team sport, comes right at the bottom.Why?

sports require lots of athletes, and are therefore expensive, plus they yield few medals.Indeed, the GB hockey

statistics, the social media storm surrounding the GB women’s nail-biting, but ultimately victorious, hockey


Philadelphia chosen as host for USA Hockey's Hall of Fame induction celebration

  • Ice Hockey

Philadelphia will host the United States Ice Hockey Hall of Fame induction celebration, it has been announced

Governing body USA Hockey has opted for the city, which will host the event for the first time.However

League (NHL) outfit Philadelphia Flyers and the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association, an affiliate of

USA Hockey."

We’re excited to bring the US Hockey Hall of Fame induction celebration to Philadelphia,” Dave Ogrean

, the executive director of USA Hockey, said."




Newly crowned Olympic champions rise in FIH rankings

  • Hockey

Newly crowned Olympic champions Argentina and Great Britain have climbed in the International Hockey

respectively, with Olympic bronze medallists Germany climbing two places from ninth to seventh.Both Olympic hockey


Former Soviet ice hockey player Marin dies aged 51

  • Ice Hockey

Former Soviet national team goaltender Alexei Marin has died at the age of 51, the International Ice Hockey

break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Marin went on to have an established career in domestic Russian ice hockey

Szekesfehervar in Hungary, where he retired at the age of 35.Marin, originally from the CSKA Moscow hockey


Pyeongchang 2018 President “trusts and believes” NHL players will be there

  • Ice Hockey

Hee-Beom Lee, President Pyeongchang 2018, is confident the next Winter Games will feature ice hockey

players from the National Hockey League (NHL), he said here today.

"We have very close communications with the International Hockey Federation,” Lee said."

I haven’t met with leaders of NHL during the Games in Rio, but I have met the International Hockey Federation

believe the NHL will join us at the Pyeongchang Games.”René Fasel, President of the International Ice Hockey

The question is would the fact that the Winter Olympics in Beijing introduce that country to hockey and

give us an opportunity to make a real impression in China, where hockey is really in an embryonic state


IIHF vice-president calls new facility in Edmonton "best in the world" as predicts city will stage major events in future

  • Ice Hockey

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) vice-president Bob Nicholson claims the newly-built Rogers

facility in the Canadian city, which is due to be unveiled on September 10, will be the home of National Hockey

 "And the screen will be the biggest screen in the National Hockey League, it will go from blueline

NHL outfit the Edmonton Oilers ©Getty ImagesNicholson, who served as President and chief executive of Hockey

We want this to be hockey hotbed with an emphasis on international,” added Nicholson.


Hockey Canada to stage ice sledge hockey development camp

  • Para Ice Hockey News

Thirty-two of Canada’s best sledge hockey players will attend a national team development camp next week

Among the many returning veterans of Hockey Canada’s national sledge programme is Chris Cederstrand,

Dunn is the youngest player to feature on the roster, having impressed coaches at the inaugural sledge hockey

for Hockey Canada, and comprises of four goaltenders, 10 defencemen and 18 forwards.Guest assistant

Canadian sledge hockey and this camp is going to be exciting."

Shawn Bullock, senior manager of hockey operations and men’s national teams for Hockey Canada, added:



Festival to be held alongside World Cup of Hockey in Toronto

  • Ice Hockey

A 10-day festival will take place next month to try to increase awareness of ice hockey to children,

ahead of the World Cup of Hockey taking place in Toronto.

National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman was joined by their Players' Association executive director

at Distillery District in downtown Toronto, with competition set to take place the following day.A Hockey

to people who come from other countries, with a less well established hockey tradition to Canada.Town

This is an attempt to create a hockey-only international event that will generate an enormous following

and make a significant statement which is good for hockey all over the world."