By Gary AndersonFebruary 19 - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands will attend next month's Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, it has been announced. 

Villages to meet the Dutch athletes and the couple are also planning to watch alpine skiing and ice sledge hockey

By Nick Butler at the Bolshoy Arena in SochiI am going to be honest. On my list of things I was most eagerly anticipating about Sochi 2014 - be it sport, being in Russia or mixing with the great and good of the Olympic Movement - the nitty-gritty world of chemistry and sustainability was not high on my agenda.

something new I jumped at the chance to go on a tour around the Bolshoy Arena, the primary venue for ice hockey

"For ice hockey is it at  -5' C, for speed-skating it is at -8' C and for figure skating it is -2' C.

impact and speed is less important - whereas for speed skating it has to be rock solid and for ice hockey

There, they designed the artificial pitch for the field hockey and contributed to the construction of

The turf at the London 2012 hockey venue in the Olympic Park was developed by Dow ©Getty ImagesLooking

00:10 Six sets of medals to be won tomorrow including women's titles in curling and ice hockey and the

Winter Olympic medal for Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, while there as also been gripping action in both ice hockey

Parise scores to put the US 4-1 up over the Czech Republic and seemingly well on course for an ice hockey

21:47 US now lead Czech Republic 3-1 in ice hockey. David Backes with the latest goal.

earlier.Sad that the Russian Mens' Hockey Team lost to Finland.

By Gary AndersonFebruary 18 - Hosts Russia today named its largest ever team of athletes for Sochi 2014, which sees the 67-strong squad led by Nordic skiers who claimed 22 gold medals at last year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Nordic Skiing World Championships.

Paralympic medal to build on World Championship gold in 2012.Much will be expected of the ice sledge hockey

Nick Butler at the Bolshoy Arena in SochiFebruary 18 - René Fasel, President of the International Ice Hockey

Speaking here alongside National Hockey League (NHL) commissioner Gary Bettman, Fasel said this is his

of NHL players ©Getty ImagesAmong the several other issues to be discussed was the status of women's hockey

so before responding "I can guarantee that will never happen" to the question of whether women's ice hockey

By Gary AndersonFebruary 18 - Secretary general of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Gunilla Lindberg highlighted the need for best practice among NOCs as she spoke to students on a visit to the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) today.

Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, European Olympic Committee chief Pat Hickey, International Ice Hockey

quarter finals.23:22 Latvia are through to the men's ice hockey quarter finals, after a 3-1 win over

and freestyle skiing21:18 We've got two more play-off matches in the men's ice hockey being played,

19:17 Russia won, and lost, their ice hockey matches 4-0 today.

Big hockey day! #Russia vs #Norway. Good luck, guys! We need a victory!

Slovenia are also closing in on an ice hockey quarter-final showdown with Finland.

By Emily GoddardFebruary 17 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has released a one-minute video trailer to promote its live coverage of the Sochi 2014 Games.

coverage of all the sports, namely alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, cross country skiing, ice sledge hockey

thing here so hired four ex-Olympians in figure skater Michelle Kwan, Alpine skier Picabo Street, ice hockey

The four Olympians, plus Jay Onrait and Dan OToole, are a key part of the coverage ©National Hockey League

again, and Germany.Evening Session - ice dancing, bobsleigh, curling, ski jumping, aerials and ice hockey

Canada have beaten Switzerland 3-1 in their women's ice hockey semi-final and will face arch-rivals the

And they deserve every single one.22:44 We are also still going in the women's ice hockey semi-final

The second women's ice hockey semi-final is underway and Canada are already 3-0 up on Switzerland.

©Philip Barker17:35 We are back underway in the ice hockey and the US have promptly made it 4-0 after

Oshie and the U.S. men's hockey team on a huge win! Never stop believing in miracles.

President Putin was at the ice hockey after all!

Russia beat Slovakia 2-0 in the ice hockey shoot out. 18:55 Still scoreless in the ice hockey...No sign

It is still 0-0 in the ice hockey. Could we be heading for another shoot out?

redemption17:14 Group A action in men's ice hockey has also resumed.

revealed its Paralympic team for Sochi 2014 and all eyes will be on the wheelchair curling and ice sledge hockey

the mainstay of the wheelchair curling squad, then Jung Seung-hwan is the main man on the ice sledge hockey

during the tournament.Jung also impressed at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

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Men's hockey USA vs Russia. I feel like Im watching Miracle!!"

Ice hockey: US v Russia17:24 Back underway in the second period of the ice hockey - and another sign

ice hockey terminology.

League ice hockey players.

Surely ice hockey came up in the conversation? Surely. 

By Nick Butler in Pushkin Hall at the Main Press Centre in SochiFebruary 14 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials claim they delighted with progress at the halfway point of the Olympic Games here after a week in which the focus has remained on sport rather than the negative issues which clouded the build up.

of today's briefing, for example, was in anticipation to tomorrow's United States versus Russia ice hockey

By Nick Butler at the Main Press Centre in SochiFebruary 14 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has this evening made unannounced visits to both the United States and Canada houses here in Sochi in what seems an attempt to improve relations with Western powers. 

led instead by three openly gay figures, former tennis player Billie Jean King, two-time Olympic ice hockey

bridges to bring people together rather than pushing them apart.Following this visit, tomorrow's ice hockey