A radical overhaul of the structure of matches for Rio 2016 has been announced by the International Hockey

The new format has been trialled in both the Euro Hockey League and Hockey India League and will now

break, with a 10-minute break at half-time.The changes could be seen as a reaction to last year when hockey

Committee's ruling Executive Board decided to vote off the programme after Rio 2016.Wrestling was chosen but hockey

modern pentathlon.Wrestling was later given a reprieve following a successful campaign but the fact hockey

more replays and be more engaged with the event, whether in the stadium or watching from a far, while hockey

By Gary AndersonMarch 19 - Applications are being sought by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) for two scholarship positions on the Master of Sports Administration (MSA) course at the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) in Sochi.

scholarship at RIOU.Other students to receive scholarships on the course included United States women's hockey

By David OwenMarch 19 - UK Sport today confirmed the withdrawal of funding from six Olympic and Paralympic sports, shattering the dreams of scores of elite athletes in activities from basketball to visually impaired football.

team is.Of the 20 Olympic sports now earmarked to receive Rio cycle performance funding, only one - hockey

By Gary AndersonMarch 19 - Gary Zenkel, head of NBC Olympics, has hailed the success of the broadcaster's coverage of the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics and claimed it plans to build on the success by increasing coverage for Rio 2016. 

including Rico Roman, Josh Sweeney, Jen Lee and Paul Schaus, who were part of the victorious US ice sledge hockey

By Gary AndersonMarch 19 - Fiji's participation in team events at Glasgow 2014 is "under consideration" following their reinstatement into the Commonwealth, insidethegames can reveal.

athletes to make their return at Glasgow 2014 but the qualification periods for team events including hockey

By Zjan ShirinianMarch 17 - A Canadian wheelchair racer has been suspended for five years and stripped of his World Championship medal after a second positive test.

fourth in the race.Compaore has also been fined €1,500 (£1,253/$2,084).Last week, Italian ice sledge hockey

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player suspended for 18 months after positive testMarch 2014: Italian ice sledge hockey player first

By Emily GoddardMarch 16 - The South African and Zambian girls' and boys' national youth hockey teams

By Gary AndersonMarch 16 - A shortlist of four men and four women has been published for the "Best of US" award at this month's Sochi 2014 Paralympics, in a new initiative launched by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) that also recognises the team and moment of the Games.

Games, based on nominations from each national governing body.Alpine skier Mark Bathum, ice sledge hockey

the top-five in each of the five biathlon and cross-country events he competed in.Rising ice sledge hockey

podium in the downhill sitting and super-G sitting events.Not surprisingly, the victorious US ice sledge hockey

final standings in Sochi.The shortlist for the moment of the Games includes the win for the ice sledge hockey

50 record with the rifle has Soule on the list.Back-to-back Paralympic champions the US ice sledge hockey

Games - said that it would be important for Russia to do well in wheelchair curling and ice sledge hockey

Ulset (Nordic skiing)Poland: Wojciech Taraba (alpine skiing)South Korea: Seung-Hwan Jung (ice sledge hockey

Slovakia: Henrieta Farkasova (alpine skiing)Slovenia: Gal Jakic (alpine skiing)USA: Steve Cash (ice sledge hockey

Bochet (alpine skiing)Croatia: Dino Sokolovic (alpine skiing)Czech Republic: Michal Vapenka (ice sledge hockey

has just started. 09:17 Even defeats yesterday in the finals of the wheelchair curling and ice sledge hockey

By Emily GoddardMarch 15 - Spain and New Zealand have been awarded the hosting rights to the Women's Hockey

Valencia, which will become the first Spanish city to host top level international hockey since the 2006

in 2015.The subsequent eight finalists will then head to Auckland in 2017 to compete in the Women's Hockey

World League, which will take place at the newly developed New Zealand National Hockey Centre.Meanwhile

, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) named the Netherlands as the host of the 2018 Men's Champions

writer of this story at [email protected] storiesApril 2013: FIH confirms women's hockey

By Nick ButlerMarch 15 - Polish bobsledder Daniel Zalewski has become the seventh athlete to fail a drugs test during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOI) have revealed.

followed by Italian bobsledder Frullani, Ukrainian cross-country skier Marina Lisogor, Latvian ice hockey

A second ice hockey star in Sweden's Nicklas Bäckström also failed a test shortly before the men's ice

hockey final but the IOC yesterday announced that he was cleared of any doping charge and would be awarded

Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesMarch 2014: Swedish ice hockey

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

By Gary AndersonMarch 15 - Ticket sales and travel packages to this year's Commonwealth Games are up by 800 per cent on Delhi 2010 according to official ticket agents in New Zealand as Kiwi fans get set to flock to Glasgow this summer.

The highest demand for tickets have been for cycling, swimming, netball, hockey and athletics events

First-ever to win consecutive #Paralympics golds in sled hockey.

They have become the first team ever to successfully defend a Paralympic ice sledge hockey title. 21:

Ice sledge hockey has been on the Paralympic programme since Lillehammer 1994. 

Because it is the Russia versus United States ice sledge hockey rematch.

hockey. 14:43 There are eight minutes left in the final period of the ice sledge hockey in the Shayba

wrongdoing and awarded an Olympic silver medal after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) found the ice hockey

quarter-final victory over Slovakia at Sochi 2014, and was subsequently banned from playing in the men's ice hockey

win over Finland ©AFP/Getty ImagesBäckström, who plays for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey

followed by Italian bobsledder William Frullani, Ukrainian cross-country skier Marina Lisogor, Latvian ice hockey

this story at [email protected] StoriesMarch 2014: Latvia facing Sochi 2014 ice hockey

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

By Gary AndersonMarch 14 - Fiji has been reinstated to the Commonwealth of Nations today following a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, paving the way for Fijian athletes to make their first appearance at the Games in Glasgow since Melbourne 2006.

taking part in the Glasgow 2014 Games, although the announcement has come too late for the netball, hockey