By Gary AndersonThe Welsh leg of the Queen's Baton Relay is officially underway after it touched down at Cardiff Wales Airport today to begin its seven-day journey across Wales.

The Baton arrived following its tour through Northern Ireland and was greeted in Cardiff by Welsh hockey

in a record 138 consecutive appearances and is a member of the Executive Board of the International Hockey

By Paul OsborneDenmark has been awarded the 2018 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships

This is an important victory for Danish ice hockey both sporting and organisational wise," said Henrik

Bach Nielsen, President of Danish Ice Hockey Association."

After 12 years in the A-group it is now Denmark's turn to host the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships

I hope we will have a party for all ice hockey fans in Denmark."

2012: Denmark and Latvia launch joint bid for 2017 Ice Hockey World Championships

By Nick ButlerLillehammer 2014 have hailed a two-day visit by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, along with the latest IOC Coordination Commission inspection, as "energising the bid" with 18 months to go until the second Winter Youth Olympics begin.

Following this the Coordination Commission, headed by four-time Winter Olympic ice hockey medal winner

By Zjan ShirinianThe 16 players in Wales' women's hockey squad for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

Wales, said: "The Delhi 2010 Games ended a 12-year absence at a Commonwealth Games for Wales' women's hockey

By Zjan ShirinianBids to host the 2015 Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-Pool are being called

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey wants interested applicants to give it a "

Championships schedule in the lead-up to the Winter Games.The B-Pool contains the second tier of ice sledge hockey

Germany in the gold medal game.Great Britain are among six teams currently in the B-Pool of ice sledge hockey

100 athletes from six teams who will compete for six days on the ice.Jessica Korber, IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

sport manager, said: "There has been an increased interest in the new IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Paralympic

By Nick ButlerTickets for hockey, netball and rugby sevens, as well as for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies

AndersonGlobal law firm DLA Piper has been announced as the main sponsor of the South African men's hockey

team at this year's International Hockey Federation (FIH) Hockey World Cup in The Hague.

The DLA Piper logo will appear on the training and match shirts of the South African team during the 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 CupAugust 2013: Stockey the stork flies in to become

Hockey World Cup official mascot

By Zjan ShirinianThe ice sledge hockey qualifying criteria for the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympics has been

United States, Russia, Czech Republic, Norway, Italy, Japan and Germany - the best eight ice sledge hockey

established to aid "the growth and development of IPC (International Paralympic Committee) Ice Sledge Hockey

worldwide".The United States, who won ice sledge hockey gold at Sochi 2014, are one of eight teams in

depending on the status of the Paralympic host nation's team - will qualify for the Games.IPC Sledge Hockey

We are very excited to enhance the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey competition calendar for the next Paralympic

equipment manufacturer Engelbert Strauss has been named the official presenting partner for the Champions Hockey

League, the new pan-European club ice hockey competition being launched in August.

Together with the top clubs participating, we will pave the way for a new era in European ice hockey,

reaching out with our brand to ice hockey communities in growth markets across the continent."

An ice hockey competition, also called the Champions Hockey League, ran in 2009 but was cancelled the

Infront's executive director winter sports, added: "We are proud to enter into this first Champions Hockey

In its new role, the brand gains season-long pan-European exposure in club ice hockey building upon the

By Emily GoddardQualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games hockey tournament will get underway next

month with the second edition of the Hockey World League (HWL).

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By Nick ButlerSpecific details on the three phases of ticket sales due to begin on Wednesday (May 21) have been announced by Glasgow 2014 today, as they bid to avoid the problems which caused the suspension of sales last week.

The first batch, scheduled to be released at 10am on Wednesday, will be for the three team sports of hockey

By Gary AndersonTwenty-five athletes from the Falkland Islands will head to Glasgow this summer to compete in badminton, lawn bowls and shooting events representing the largest ever squad sent to a Commonwealth Games.

Argentina slammed by IOC for airing "political" TV advert shot on Falkland IslandsMay 2012: Argentine hockey

By Paul OsborneThe Olympic gold medal won by American "Miracle on Ice" star Mark Pavelich has sold for $262,900 (£156,255/€191,660) at an auction house in Dallas.

Pavelich's 1980 Lake Placid ice hockey gold medal is the second to be sold through the Texas-based

two assists in the United States' dramatic victory over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Lake Placid ice hockey

He also said he had some other items from his hockey career that he was considering auctioning off in

By Nick ButlerRio 2016 have hit back at critics who claim venues will remain incomplete when the Olympic and Paralympic Games begin in a little over two years' time, by insisting 38 per cent of venues are already completed and there is progress with all the others. 

preparations for the four new venues, the Olympic BMX Centre, the Olympic Whitewater Stadium, the Olympic Hockey

By Gary AndersonThe Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has announced the creation of the Randy Starkman Olympian Humanitarian Award in honour of the former sports journalist who died of pneumonia in May 2012.

he picked up the National Newspaper Award again for a story exposing the inadequacies of a popular hockey