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Lillehammer 2016 to be broadcast on Norwegian channel NRK

  • Lillehammer 2016

Norwegian residents will be able to enjoy daily coverage of the Winter Youth Olympic Games after Lillehammer 2016 announced national broadcaster NRK will screen the event, scheduled to take place from February 12 to 21.

and short track speed skating.They are also scheduled to show biathlon single mixed relay and the ice hockey

skating agility, fastest shot, passing precision and puck control.The broadcaster will also show ice hockey


Pentathlon GB appoints new chief executive

  • Modern Pentathlon

Pentathlon GB today announced the appointment of Danielle Every, the former director of football operations at the English Football Association (FA), as its new chief executive.

Previously a keen National League hockey player, Every has now turned to triathlon as she tries to balance


More can be done to get women into high-profile sporting roles, DeFrantz claims

  • Paris 2024

American International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Anita DeFrantz feels more can be done to help women secure high-profile positions within sport, highlighting Rio 2016 as a key tool to inspire more females to get involved.

participate and lead in sport,” Ruggiero, a member of the American women's team which won the Olympic ice hockey






“Miracle on Ice” ice hockey team honoured at United States Olympic Endowment lunch

  • PASO

The United States’ “Miracle on Ice” hockey team were named as the winners of the William E.

endowed funds following the surplus of Los Angeles 1984, honoured  the 1980 American Olympic men’s ice hockey

to the advancement of the Olympic and Paralympic Movements.The 1998 American Olympic women’s ice hockey

opportunities.With their team having beaten their rivals Canada twice on route to the first-ever women’s ice hockey

which they secured six straight victories, was hailed as having boosted the growth of women’s ice hockey




FIFA’s Board considers putting the video onto fast-forward

  • The Big Read

The New Year promises no lessening of the turmoil and controversy within which football’s international governing body, FIFA, is currently embroiled. And while the game continues to purge itself of the corruption which appears to have reached so many of its loftiest branches, its roots – namely, the Laws of The Game – are also subject to imminent, sweeping change.

that was already established in sports such as Major League Baseball, to judge home runs, NHL ice hockey




David Owen: Ruggiero takes over as International Olympic Committee’s top Tweeter

  • Inside the Blogs

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has a new champion Tweeter.

Step forward Angela Ruggiero, Olympic ice hockey gold medallist, Harvard MBA and vice-chair of the IOC

Ice hockey                                      88,300 @IIHFHockey6.

Hockey                                  59,000         @FIH_Hockey10.

will be interesting to observe how these rankings evolve.This time around, the sports of rugby, ice hockey

, field hockey and wrestling were higher than I would have predicted; by contrast, aquatics, tennis


Pyeongchang 2018 claim "year of accomplishments"

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Pyeongchang 2018 organisers have claimed that it has been a "year full of accomplishments" as they look ahead to the first Winter Olympics and Paralympics to be held in South Korea.

is also the target date for Jeongseon, which is at 57.5 per cent complete, as well as one of two ice hockey

venues, the Kwandong Hockey Centre, which organisers have rated at 58.4 per cent.The other ice hockey

arena, the Gangneung Hockey Centre, is said to be at 52.4 per cent and due for completion in November