Pyeongchang 2018 President Cho Yang-ho has declared they have moved into the “operational phase” ahead of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games - with the first test events scheduled to take place this month.

For instance, more and more young people are taking interest in ice hockey, which has been a minor sport

International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) President Sabatino Aracu has awarded Nanjing, the Chinese city which hosted the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG), the title of "world capital of roller sports". 

for coaches and ambassadors held in 2015, the 2016 World Speed Championships, the 2018 World Inline Hockey

competitions held at indoor and outdoor facilities.Events will consist of artistic, speed, rink and inline hockey

A multi-year plan to develop ice hockey in the Balkans has been proposed by the Ice Hockey Federation

Held in collaboration with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the Slovenians hosted a meeting

with members of ice hockey associations from countries from around the region.Each of the participants

of appropriate infrastructure and finances.The IHFS presented a proposal to establish a Balkan ice hockey

the aim to develop coaching and other support staff, as well as aiding the next generation of ice hockey

players and ice hockey experts.

Less than a decade ago, the Youth Olympic Games did not even exist, but some 1,100 sporting youngsters will descend on the Norwegian town of Lillehammer for the second edition of the Winter event, due to take place from February 12 to 21.

This offered a pleasing echo at the Olympia Eisstadion where the Soviet Union had won ice hockey gold

They give back to the sport by supporting the next generation," said Angela Ruggiero, an American ice hockey

Lucerne’s bid for the 2021 Winter Universiade has been presented to the media ahead of its evaluation by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) next month.

biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, freestyle snowboarding, ice hockey

A ban on Spanish hockey clubs playing against ones from Gibraltar has been lifted, it has been announced

Consejo Superior de Deportes, a Government agency responsible for developing sport in Spain.The Gibraltar Hockey

Association (GHA) had complained to the European Hockey Federation (EHF), who they have been members

The ban has now overturned, confirmed the Royal Spanish Hockey Federation, who had originally tried to

Hockey matches between clubs from Gibraltar and Spain can resume now a ban has been lifted ©EHF"The GHA

Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris successfully defended his Winter X Games slopestyle title after coming out on top in Aspen, Colorado today.

accident in 2007 has since gone on to become a two-time Paralympic Games gold medallist in ice sledge hockey

Players from the National Hockey League (NHL) can either participate in the Winter Olympics either at

both the Pyeongchang 2018 and Beijing 2022 or miss them both, International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF

Winter Olympic sport.Another possible complication involves the return of the NHL-organised World Cup of Hockey

scheduled to run from September 17 to October 1 in Toronto, and will involve eight teams featuring the best hockey

Nanjing in China will host the first edition of the World Roller Games, not Barcelona, the original choice, it has been announced.

Events will consist of artistic, speed, rink hockey, inline hockey, roller freestyle, skateboarding,

Britain and the United States have become the two latest countries to reveal their teams for next month's Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer.

February 12 and conclude on February 21.They will participate across curling, freestyle skiing, ice hockey

World Olympians Association (WOA) treasurer Patrick Singleton will replace Senegal's Amadou Dia Ba as the WOA representative on the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission following Rio 2016, it has been announced.

been selected as one of five IOC representatives on the WOA Board.Ruggiero, the United States' ice hockey

synchronised swimmer Mikako Kotani have also been appointed as WOA continental representatives.American ice hockey

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Louise Martin promised here today she will support Gibraltar's bid to stop having its opportunities to compete internationally blocked. 

Federation (RFEH) has claimed that it has been ordered by the European Hockey Federation(EHF)  to ban

appropriate to undo this clear and unacceptable discrimination against our hockey community," it said

A row has broken out after it was claimed that the European Hockey Federation had ordered Spanish to

to the Spanish Hockey Federation's prohibition on all forms of sporting contact between Spanish and

Gibraltarian hockey teams," they said."

Former Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) chief Alexander Medvedev has ruled himself out of the running

for against René Fasel for the position of President International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)

The country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko and Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Chief Vladislav

 “We have a coordinated position of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and the Sports Ministry

2016 World Championships in Moscow ©Getty ImagesFasel, who will stand for re-election during the Ice Hockey

The designs for the medals which will be awarded at next month's Winter Youth Olympic Games have today been unveiled by Lillehammer 2016.

so is designing the award.”Holmestad recently predicted that cross-country cross, monobob and ice hockey

Świdnica, located 55 kilometres away from host city Wrocław, will stage roller inline hockey and artistic