By Duncan Mackay at the Main Press Centre in SochiFebruary 4 - Norwegian Health Minister Bent Høie is set to make a stand against Russia's controversial anti-gay propaganda law by bringing his husband here for the Games.

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

By Gary AndersonFebruary 4 - As the build-up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games continues Lead 2014 has today launched its programme which will see the number of young people involved pass the 50,000 barrier.

Scottish hockey players Michael Bremner and Alison Howie were on hand to help launch this year's Lead

By Gary AndersonFebruary 3 - British Paralympic broadcaster Channel 4 will broadcast 150 hours of coverage from the Sochi 2014 and will retain a number of the presenting team that worked on the broadcaster's award-winning coverage of London 2012.

events and will include live coverage from all five of the winter sports - Alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey

By Paul OsborneFebruary 3 - Friedrich Stickler, President of the European Lotteries, Neşe Gündoğan, secretary general of the Turkish National Olympic Committee, and Nenad Lalovic, head of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), have been announced as speakers at the 2014 SportAccord International Convention in Belek/Antalya, Turkey.

chief executive of Badminton England, and Brett Hasell, marketing coordinator of the International Hockey

By Nick Butler at the Main Press Centre in SochiFebruary 3 - Claudia Bokel has been re-elected chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission after a meeting here today.

fitting given that the meeting took place here ahead of a Winter Olympic Games, the United States ice hockey

biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen, winner of 11 Olympic medals, including six gold, as well as another ice hockey

journalistic colleague, managed to arrive at the crucial moment to photograph the handover of the Torch to ice hockey

By Nick ButlerFebruary 2 - Athletes with a physical disability who "like the idea of hurtling down a bobsleigh track" are being sought by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) as the campaign to feature at Pyeongchang 2018 gathers pace.

Wheelchair curling along with ice sledge hockey and Alpine and Nordic skiing events will make up the

sports on the Winter Paralympic programme - Alpine and Nordic skiing, wheelchair curling and ice sledge hockey

By Nick Butler at the Main Press Centre in SochiFebruary 2 - Athletes from Mongolia and New Zealand have become the first to be officially welcomed into the Olympic Village here his morning.

first Games at the helm of the Movement.IOC President Thomas Bach poses with members of the German ice hockey

By Paul OsborneJanuary 31 - Zach Parise has been named captain of the United States ice hockey team as

since his move from the New Jersey Devils in 2012 ©Getty ImagesParise is the son of famous Canadian hockey

writer of this story at [email protected] storiesJanuary 2014: Experienced ice hockey

I have been finding out about the 1920 Olympic ice hockey tournament.Two reasons: 1. it was the first

some indoor sports - volleyball, handball, track cycling - from Summer to Winter.After all, if ice hockey

make the switch would shout and scream, but to me it is almost a no-brainer for the Movement.If ice hockey

a single Games being spread over several months, in this case from April to September, with the ice hockey

and 31 against.Before the first Winter Olympics in 1924, the Antwerp Games of 1920 saw the first ice hockey

By Paul OsborneJanuary 30 - Sweden will send a 19-strong athlete delegation to Sochi 2014, the Swedish Paralympic Commitee announced today.

sports at the Games - Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, wheelchair curling and ice sledge hockey

also include alpine skier Linnea Ottosson Eide, Nordic skier Helene Ripa, and the 11-man ice sledge hockey

By Emily GoddardJanuary 30 - Sochi 2014 today opened the doors to all three of its Olympic Villages with just eight days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Games.

which sits on the shores of the Black Sea in Imeretinskaya Valley, will be home to about 2,000 ice hockey

By Gary AndersonJanuary 30 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will mark its 25-year anniversary with a major gathering of its membership at the Scandic Hotel, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, from October 3 to 5.

Federation for nine sports including alpine skiing, biathlon, athletics, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey

By Nick ButlerJanuary 30 - Russian will send its largest ever Paralympic team to Sochi when the Games get underway in March, the country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has announced.

countries expected to compete in Sochi across the four sports of Alpine and Nordic skiing, ice sledge hockey

By Nick ButlerJanuary 30 - Extra funding is being provided by the British Government for gay rights campaigners in Russia ahead of next week's Olympic Games in Sochi, Women and Equalities Minister Maria Miller has revealed.

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