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placing third on the medal table with nine golds ©ANOCAnn-Renée Desbiens of the Canadian women's ice hockey

Chinese sensation Eileen Gu scooped the best female athlete at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics prize at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Awards here, while South Korean short track speed skater Hwang Dae-heon earned the men's equivalent award.

hosts China in the form of the outstanding National Olympic Committee (NOC) award, while Canada in ice hockey

off stiff competition to win the best male athlete at Beijing 2022 award ©ANOCCanada's women's ice hockey

Russian ice hockey player Valeri Nichushkin, who faced a four-year ban last November after news emerged

The 27-year-old, who won the Stanley Cup with National Hockey League team Colorado Avalanche last season

, was placed under investigation by the International Ice Hockey Federation last year after it was reported

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation will be glad to see Valery in the national team after its return to

Russian ice hockey player Valery Nichushkin, who helped NHL side Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup

season.Before that he played in the NHL for Dallas Stars, having started his career in the Kontinental Hockey

More than 500 events involving Russia and China will be held this year and next as part of a sporting agreement decreed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Games ©Getty Images"It included more than 500 events, including friendly matches of Russian and Chinese hockey

Eight International University Sports Federation (FISU) officials are in Lake Placid and the surrounding area for a final inspection before the Winter World University Games.

The FISU officials' itinerary includes several college ice hockey games.They are due to take in a women's

Mike Keenan has been hired by the Italian Ice Sports Federation to coach Italy's men's ice hockey team

The Canadian has won both the National Hockey League (NHL) in North America and Russia's Kontinental

Hockey League (KHL) as a coach.Keenan's last coaching engagement was with Kunlun Red Star - a China-based

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has launched new initiative to help sporting officials secure top positions within International Federations.

programme.Among the participants was three-time Olympic Alpine skiing medallist Martina Ertl, former hockey

By coincidence Neven Ilic, who as President of Panam Sports is deep in preparations for next year's first Pan American Games in his native Chile, arrived in his country along with the 1962 FIFA World Cup finals.

and Algarrobo.In March this year the first venue for the Games was officially inaugurated - the field hockey

Parasport Denmark President John Petersson has celebrated the legacy the Vejle Municipality has created since it branded itself the "capital of Para sport" in the country in 2015.

the creation of a local wheelchair rugby team, which launched earlier this year, and an electronic hockey

Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda has urged the country’s athletes to capitalise on the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, describing the event as "important" in its own right.

as part of the 2023 Pan American Games, include archery, boxing, breaking, diving, equestrian, field hockey

Hockey Canada, whose chief executive and President Scott Smith resigned yesterday and whose Board of

of a new Board of Directors on December 17, 2022, responding to the calls for leadership change at Hockey

The departures ended weeks of pressure for Hockey Canada's leadership to resign after a scandal over

Canada's operations until a new chief executive is appointed.In a statement, Hockey Canada said: "Hockey

Hockey Canada is also releasing a memorandum from Mr.

Cromwell is for Hockey Canada’s members to examine and address a number of by-law changes."

The 2023 International University Sports Federation (FISU) World University Games in Lake Placid will set a new standard for the event in terms of environmental sustainability as part of a Save Winter initiative.

for example Clarkson’s Cheel Arena in Potsdam, the site of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU Games’ men’s ice hockey

The 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup supremo Liz Dawson has been elected President of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC).

individuals were meanwhile named as recipients of the New Zealand Olympic Order.One was 1976 Olympic hockey

Colombia and Argentina came out on top in the men's canoe sprint final at the South American Games in Asunción.

3:54.93 while Souta managed to clock 3:58.55.Meanwhile, the hosts bagged a bonze medal in the field hockey

Hockey Canada chief executive and President Scott Smith has resigned with immediate effect, while the

The departures end weeks of pressure for Hockey Canada's leadership to resign amid a scandal over how

Brind'Amour's resignation in August.An interim management committee will be put in place to oversee Hockey

Québec and Hockey Nova Scotia have said they will not send money to Hockey Canada, while sponsors including

manufacturer Bauer Hockey became the latest sponsor to pause a commercial deal with Hockey Canada earlier

Canada's leadership to quit and also pushed regional bodies to put pressure on Hockey Canada, as Hockey