Hockey player Hannah Macleod and rowing eight member Alex Partridge were among athletes who had gone

Great Britain could raise the possibility of a boycott of Russia 2018 ©Getty ImagesAlthough sailing, hockey

By Michael PavittTrack cycling will not be part of the Commonwealth Games programme for the first time for nearly a century if Durban's bid to host the event in 2022 is successful.

, the Commonwealth Games programme consists of 10 core sports - athletics, badminton, men's boxing, hockey

By Liam MorganThe Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) have announced the appointment of Titus Zvomuya as their Chef de Mission for Rio 2016. 

Zimbabwe's women's hockey team celebrate their Olympic gold medal at Moscow 1980 ©Hulton Archive/Getty

when Zimbabwe made its first appearance under its current name, winning the gold medal in the women's hockey

By Daniel EtchellsSwiss-based sports marketing company Infront Sports & Media has appointed Sven Biner as director of its sports services unit.

storiesFebruary 2015: Infront to acquire Dutch agency specialising in speed skatingMay 2014: International Ice Hockey

Infront awarded Sub-Saharan Africa broadcasting rights ahead of Sochi 2014October 2013: European Ice Hockey

By Liam MorganThe International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS) have announced the inaugural edition of the FIRS World Roller Games in 2017 will take place in Barcelona.

the first time in one city the world championships of ten roller disciplines: artistic, speed, rink hockey

, inline hockey, roller freestyle, skateboarding, inline freestyle, inline downhill, roller derby and

By Michael PavittEnver Hansen has been appointed chief executive of the 2018 International Ice Hockey

The Dane has served as the Danish Ice Hockey Association chief executive for the last 11 years, having

During his 11-year leadership of the Danish Ice Hockey Association, we saw a tripling of our revenue

built on a solid economy, and Denmark has achieved a position among the top nations of the ice hockey

sport," said Henrik Bach-Nielsen, President of the Danish Ice Hockey Association."

an obvious choice for us to let Enver Hansen manage a complex and important management project, our hockey

By Liam MorganItaly's women reigned supreme at the second round of the International Hockey Federation

(FIH) Hockey World League event as they earned a comfortable 4-0 victory over host nation Uruguay in

Despite the defeat, the South American outfit will join the European team in the Hockey World League

story at [email protected] storiesJanuary 2015: Funding woes see Fiji withdraw from Hockey

World LeagueSeptember 2014: Four more teams book places at Hockey World League Round Two

By Liam MorganBoxing gloves worn by legendary fighters Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston during their infamous 1965 "phantom punch" bout have fetched a staggering $956,000 (£620,000/€840,000) at an auction in New York.

authentic Jackson signatures in circulation.Elsewhere at the lucrative auction, the ring legendary ice hockey

By Daniel EtchellsThe deadline for nominations for the prestigious Paralympic Sport Awards, which will recognise achievements from Sochi 2014, is just one week away.

visually impaired cross-country skiing and two in biathlon.Japan, surprise silver medallists in ice sledge hockey

By David OwenThe political leader of the region surrounding Paris has seized on today's opening of the 2015 International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to highlight the French capital's case for hosting the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

Like the future handball centre at Créteil and ice-hockey arena at Cergy-Pontoise, these items of infrastructure

By Liam MorganCanada's Dylan Armstrong has received his Olympics shot put bronze medal from Beijing 2008 at a ceremony held in his hometown of Kamloops after he was awarded it retroactively following Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich's lifetime ban for doping.

finally got that podium feeling as he stepped up to proudly collect his medal from five-time Olympic ice hockey

previous Winter Olympic bid of recent years, the city is at the heart of Almaty 2022, with venues for ice hockey

By Nick Butler at the InterContinental in AlmatyAlmaty 2022 has today defended the use of Alexander Vinokourov, the cyclist who served a two-year ban after being caught blood doping during the 2007 Tour de France, as an Ambassador for the bid, while also reiterating commitments to human rights following alleged abuse in Kazakhstan. 

Palace, a venue already being built for the 2017 Winter Universiade that would serve as the main ice hockey

By Michael PavittThe schedule for the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

Russians 1-0 to claim Paralympic gold at Sochi 2014 and, more recently, winning the 2015 World Sled Hockey

Challenge titleFebruary 2015: Russia shock Canada to reach final at World Sledge Hockey ChallengeFebruary

2015: United States revive Sochi 2014 form with clinical World Sledge Hockey win over CanadaFebruary

2015: Canada and US take maximum points in World Sledge Hockey Challenge openersMay 2014: United States

awarded 2015 Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships