By Duncan MackayFebruary 26 - The Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) has signed an agreement with sportswear company Joma for them to provide sponsorship, along with kit and equipment, for several sports at Rio 2016, it has been announced. 

athletics, archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, cycling, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey

By Gary AndersonFebruary 26 - Canada has announced the final line-up for its Sochi 2014 Paralympic squad, which sees 54 athletes and guides heading to Russia with the aim of bettering their third place finish at Vancouver 2010.

Curling Centre in Sochi last February when an identical Canada squad also took the gold medal.Ice sledge hockey

Para-Alpine skiers set to travel to Sochi 2014Janauary 2014: World champions Canada reveal ice sledge hockey

in which GB ended up among the also-skiied, like cross country and the biathlon (plus presumably ice hockey

bobsledders and slaloming violinists, to record breaking gold medal winners, via ski-cross pile ups, ice hockey

nothing will beat the drama of the overtime and penalty shoot out in the Russia v United States ice hockey

particularly enjoyed the snowboarding action1) Canada's ridiculous comeback to beat USA 3-2 in the women's ice hockey

Latvian ice hockey player Vitalijs Pavlovs, Ukrainian cross-country skier Marina Lisogor, German biathlete

Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle, Italian bobsledder William Frullani and ice hockey player Nicklas Bäckström

was fury in Sweden over the decision to suspend NHL star Nicklas Bäckström two hours before the ice hockey

election to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes' Commission, alongside Canadian ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the Fisht Olympic Stadium in SochiFebruary 23 - Swedish ice hockey player Nicklas

have been taking for seven years.The 26-year-old, who plays for Washington Capitals in the National Hockey

Our opinion is that the IOC destroyed one of the greatest hockey days in Swedish history," he said.Bäckström

The other four athletes to have tested here Latvian ice hockey player Vitalijs Pavlovs, Ukrainian cross-country

is a lot of very interesting back lash going on to that doping suspension news regarding Swedish ice hockey

Bäckström we brought you earlier.The Swedes are blaming the IOC of "destroying one of the greatest hockey

He has also enjoyed a stellar career in the National Hockey League (NHL) where he is an alternate centre

But although there bitterly sought the ice hockey title, after taking the two other gold medals on offer

Cross country, bobsleigh and ice hockey have all recorded one failed test while biathlon has produced

By Nick Butler at the Main Press Centre in SochiFebruary 23 - Latvian ice hockey player Vitalijs Pavlovs

All times stated are RussianBREAKING: Latvian ice hockey player Vitalijs Pavlovs excluded from Sochi

Games - with his Olympic identity and accreditation card immediately cancelled.The International Ice Hockey

00:04 We will be back tomorrow for the final day of Sochi 2014 - with the ice hockey final between Sweden

A bad 24 hours of ice hockey medal matches for the US is continued as Finland win a medal for the third

Ice hockey aside, it got the loudest reaction in the media room as well.

By Paul OsborneFebruary 21 - The United States will bring the largest delegation of any team competing at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games as 80 athletes make the trip to Sochi next month.

Vancouver 2010 with medal hopefuls competing in all five sports: biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey

alpine skiing, which includes the new snowboard cross.Eight members of the gold-medal winning ice sledge hockey

four years ago in Vancouver, as will the eight retuning members of the gold-medal winning ice sledge hockey

debut at the Winter Games.The youngest player on the team comes in the form of 15-year-old ice sledge hockey

After winning men and women's curling, and women's ice hockey, they are now one match away from completing

The US will face Finland for bronze.23:06 Canada hold on to beat the US 1-0 in the ice hockey semi-final

They play their semi-final at 21:00.18:16 Into the dying seconds of the men's ice hockey semi-final,

The only previous occasion involved West German ice hockey player Alois Scholder, who tested positive

exit10:32 Some more sad news to report after Russian ice hockey forward Alex Ovechkin, also the first

By Gary AndersonFebruary 20 - As part of its bid for inclusion at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has carried out a four-day research project in Russia aimed at establishing a classification system for the sport.

canoeing, but is preparing another campaign for Tokyo 2020.This time it will be up against badminton, hockey

, powerchair football, intellectually impaired basketball, electric wheelchair hockey and amputee football

SochiFebruary 20 - Norway's record Winter Olympic medal winner Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Canadian ice hockey

Wickenheiser, meanwhile, is chasing a fourth successive Olympic ice hockey gold medal in the women's

softball.Her appointment seems particularly poignant because she will replace a Canadian and an ice hockey

We also have the small matter of ice hockey semi-finals: Sweden v Finland and a chance for the US men

Canada enjoyed two team sport victories - in curling as well as ice hockey - while Norway, France and

...As a hockey fan, congratulations to the Swiss women's ice-hockey team on their #Sochi2014 bronze medal

It remains 2-2...23:30 We are into overtime in the ice hockey.

I'm betting @barackobama one case of Canadian beer per hockey game this week.