By Nick ButlerA team based in Sochi will be added to the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for next season

Zhemchuzhina at some point in the future.But with the date of their arrival yet to be confirmed the ice hockey

during the Games.They will play home matches at either the Bolshoy Ice Dome or Shayba Arena, the two ice hockey

located in the Olympic Park.Widely regarded the second strongest league in the world after the National Hockey

Bolshoy Ice Dome or the Shayba Arena in the Olympic Park ©Getty ImagesThe news is a boost for the ice hockey

By Emily GoddardApril 30 - The GreenFields Stadium, the second venue for this year's Hockey World Cup

World Cup, due to take place from May 31 to June 15, the GreenFields turf will be handed over to local hockey

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By Zjan ShirinianApril 30 - Russia's silver medal-winning ice sledge hockey team has been voted the International

The outfit, formed from an ice sledge hockey programme that was only started up in Russia five years

crowd in the Shayba Arena rocking as they progressed to the gold medal match last month.With their ice hockey

counterparts in the Olympics disappointing with a quarter-final exit, the ice sledge hockey squad restored

programme grew.Vadim Selyukin (right) was responsible for helping put together an ice sledge hockey

programme in Russia ©Getty ImagesCanada's wheelchair curling team, the Untied States' ice sledge hockey

By Paul Osborne at the Alpensia Resort in PyeongchangApril 30 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission chair Gunilla Lindberg claims she has "full confidence" in the preparations for Pyeongchang 2018 after a tour of each of the venues here today.

Sliding Centre at the Alpensia Resort, began on Monday (April 28) and December 31 respectively.The Ice Hockey

1 and Ice Hockey 2 venues, being used for competition and training, as well as the figure skating/short

speed skating venue are expected to begin construction in late May.These three venues, excluding Ice Hockey

Complex, a 649,000 square metre area that will host the short track speed skating, speed skating, ice hockey

, ice sledge hockey, curling, wheelchair curling and figure skating events.All venues are scheduled to

By Gary AndersonApril 29 - Latvian ice hockey player Vitalijs Pavlovs has been handed an 18-month ban

out of the Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).The forward, who plays for Kontinental Hockey

of the supplements he was taking", according to a statement released today by the International Ice Hockey

doctor all season, without knowing specifically what it contained.Pavlovs is one of two Latvian ice hockey

Getty Images Last Friday (April 25), the IOC revealed that Ralfs Freibergs was the second Latvian ice hockey

player to fail drugs test at Sochi 2014March 2014: Latvia facing Sochi 2014 ice hockey disqualification

By Paul Osborne at the Alpensia Convention Centre in PyeongchangApril 29 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission has begun a three-day visit to Pyeongchang as the South Korean city continues to prepare for the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

sliding centre, the Olympic Villages, the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre, ice hockey

By Nick Butler April 29 - Ice Hockey UK (IHUK) is launching a bid to host the 2015 International Ice

Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship Division 2A event in the Scottish town of Dumfries

champion councillor Colin Smyth, as he outlined how the council are "committed to working with Ice Hockey

recent World Championship competition held at Dumfries Ice Bowl and to secure future international ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the JW Marriott Hotel Absheron in BakuApril 28 - Jim Scherr is leaving his position as chief operating officer of Baku 2015 and will be replaced by Simon Clegg, organisers of the inaugural European Games announced here today.

Scherr had joined Baku 2015 from the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, where he had been the Commissioner.He

By Paul OsborneApril 25 - Ralfs Freibergs has become the second Latvian ice hockey player to fail a drugs

Sochi 2014, Freibergs is now expected to return his eighth place diploma, with the International Ice Hockey

its competence".Despite being the second Latvian player to fail a drugs test, the Latvian men's ice hockey

regulations.The Latvian becomes the eighth athlete to fail a drugs test at 2014 Sochi and the third ice hockey

bobsledder becomes seventh athlete to fail drugs test at Sochi 2014 OlympicsMarch 2014: Swedish ice hockey

second player "fails drugs test"February 2014: Sweden angry after top player barred from Olympic ice hockey

By Paul OsborneApril 24 - Disabled people across England will once again be given the chance to try out a host of Paralympic sports as Manchester gets set to hold the third ParalympicsGB Sports Fest.

volleyball, table tennis, wheelchair rugby, archery, cycling, goalball, triathlon, sailing, sledge hockey

By Gary AndersonApril 24 - Former head coach of the Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team, Tim Frick, has become the first Paralympic coach to be inducted into the Canada Sports Hall of Fame.

national titles and 14 Conference Championships wins.Others named as 2014 inductees include Olympic hockey

By Nick ButlerApril 24 - Sochi's bid for the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships has been cast in doubt after it was criticised by Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko for being submitted without Government approval. 

Summer Universiade in Kazan in 2013, the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, while the 2016 World Ice Hockey

By Emily GoddardApril 24 - Eight teams are currently preparing for the Men's Pahang Hockey Champions

The tournament is due to get underway with a match between New Zealand, who secured silver at the Hockey

on Saturday (April 26).The Black Sticks are one of three teams in Kuantan that will compete at the Hockey

coach Colin Batch has not yet written off any of their competitors.South Korea go into the Men's Pahang Hockey

By Paul OsborneApril 24 - Glasgow will become the home of hockey over the next week as the city gets

Scheduled to take place simultaneously, the two competitions will be held at the Glasgow National Hockey

robin, with the final and semi-final set to take place on Tuesday (April 29).As for the International Hockey

Scottish soil since 1986, when Edinburgh played host.The other three teams will be preparing for the FIH Hockey

points and promotion to the Champions Trophy.This year will be the last Champions Challenge One as the Hockey

World League is replacing it in the hockey calendar.The competition splits the eight teams into two

By Nick ButlerApril 23 - Canada's all-conquering wheelchair curling team are among the nominees for the International Paralympic Committee Best Team award for March, based on results at Sochi 2014. 

to be awarded the Best Team accolade, particularly from Russia, who are represented by an ice sledge hockey

Completing the line-up is the US ice sledge hockey team which completed a successful defence of the title

Federations and voting, which can be accessed here, will remain open until April 29.American ice sledge hockey