By Gary AndersonThe Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) claims that more than CAD$2 million ($1.8 million/£1.09 million/€1.3 million) has been raised following the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame Gala and Induction Ceremony in Calgary at the end of the three-day Celebration of Excellence tour.

Seiterle, Adam Kreek and Kyle Hamilton.Speed skating coach Marcel Lacroix and former Canada men's ice hockey

RowbottomArgentina's women continued to set the pace in their group at the halfway point of the Rabobank Hockey

serious a problem it is.The 36-year-old midfielder is the only woman to have received the International Hockey

celebrates one of his hat-trick of goals in Argentina's 3-1 win over New Zealand today at the Rabobank Hockey

World Cup as Dutch football season endsApril 2014: Hockey World Cup stadium opens in The HagueNovember

2013: South Africa's men and women complete line up for 2014 Hockey World CupNovember 2013: Indian men

and Belgian women qualify for 2014 Hockey World Cup

By Nick ButlerA long-awaited announcement has finally been made as to which company will take charge of construction and renovation for the northern portion of the second main Rio 2016 venues cluster at Deodoro.

expressed by Gilbert Felli and others ©AFP/Getty ImagesThis will include the venues for canoe slalom, hockey

biking, modern pentathlon and rugby.But there will also be four new venues, for BMX, canoe slalom and hockey

By Zjan ShirinianMore than 100 children with a physical disability took part in a special tournament as the World Cup got underway in nearby The Hague at the weekend.

Cartouche Hockey Club hosted the tournament, as part of an effort to bring the sport to as many people

as possible.It was held as the Rabobank Hockey World Cup began yesterday for 16 days of top-level competition

limitations should not stop you from enjoying sport," said Henriette van Aalderen of the Royal Dutch Hockey

Hockey for people with disabilities has attracted support through the Dirk Kuyt Foundation, set up by

Fleuren, is keen to spread the word about disabled hockey as well."

By Mike RowbottomThe revised format for hockey matches of four quarters rather than two halves, adopted

"The next Olympics in Rio will see hockey played in quarters," the International Hockey League's chief

penalty corner or the scoring of a goal.The four-quarter format has already been trialled in the Euro Hockey

It is not in operation in the Hockey World Cup currently taking place in The Hague, but it will apply

"The Hockey India League has had this system for the last two years, and the European Hockey League for

We looked at a lot of other sports such as basketball and ice hockey."

seven months later by the IOC, but shock waves reverberated throughout the Olympic sporting world - and hockey

face being voted off the Olympic programme," Kelly Fairweather, chief executive of the International Hockey

The Hockey India League has had this system for the last two years, and the European Hockey League for

We looked at a lot of other sports such as basketball and ice hockey."

The next Olympics in Rio will see hockey played in quarters.

In the meantime, Fairweather's attention is being taken by the Hockey World Cup now underway."

By Paul OsborneThe Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014 officially opened today as the Opening Ceremony was

The Hockey World Cup is the climax of the international hockey calendar and the culmination of several

Bond (KNHB), the governing body for hockey in the Netherlands."

We want to create a movement that will live on after the hockey tournament is over."

and Belgian women qualify for 2014 Hockey World CupAugust 2012: Stockey the stork flies in to become

Hockey World Cup official mascot

By Nick ButlerAlexander Zhukov has been reappointed President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) following a meeting attended by around 300 guests in Moscow.

also appointed, along with Gennady Timchenko, chairman of the Board of Directors on the Kontinental Hockey

today following the death of former Malaysian ruler Sultan Azlan Shah, also the President of the Asian Hockey

Federation (AHF) and an Executive Board member of the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

who became the youngest High Court Judge in the Commonwealth, at the age of 37, in 1965.But it was hockey

a playing and an administrative capacity, for which he is widely lauded as the "father of Malaysian hockey

After taking up hockey as a schoolboy, he played locally for Perak before being elected as Malaysian

Hockey Federation vice-president in 1973 and then President in 1981, a position in which he remained

Shah was an icon in hockey"."

By Zjan ShirinianA chance to get inspired by the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games will be given to thousands of disadvantaged 14 to 25-year-olds across the United Kingdom this summer.

Games in the city - and is supported by Melbourne 2006 heptathlete champion Kelly Sotherton and former hockey

By Nick ButlerThe Druzhba Arena in Donetsk where a dozen pole vault world record have been set since 1990, has been looted and set on fire during the violence currently engulfing Eastern Ukraine. 

the upper part of the building has been badly damaged.The arena is home to the Donbass Donetsk ice hockey

team, who play in the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League, with the club owned by local politician

question mark over whether Donetsk will be able to stage the second tier competition of the World Ice Hockey

By Gary AndersonA host of top entertainment acts including singing star Alyssa Reid are set to appear at the climax of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) Sochi 2014 Celebration of Excellence tour in Calgary on June 6.

Dylan Moscovitch, and Jan Hudec will hit the stage for a "one night only" musical jam session.Olympic hockey

Sochi 2014 gold medal-winning form after the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

The eighth edition of the tournament, the most important in the ice sledge hockey calender outside the

Ice sledge hockey took the step into the popular consciousness during Sochi 2014, increasing popularity

Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey, added: "The athletes and fans will be treated to a state-of-the-art

facility in an area where hockey is an everyday passion".The 2015 event will also be the first major

of this story at [email protected] storiesMay 2014: Bids to host 2015 Ice Sledge Hockey

in the Olympic programme since 1924, though some sports took longer to make the breakthrough.Women's hockey

By Nick ButlerCaitlin Cahow, the former ice hockey player who was one of three openly gay figures leading

Images   Before announcing her retirement in 2013, Cahow was a long-standing member of the US ice hockey

Canada.The US medal haul included a silver for some of Cahow's former team mates in the US women's ice hockey