speed and experience in their pursuit for Paralympic gold with the announcement of their ice sledge hockey

on home ice in 2010, with just one change from the team that took gold at the 2013 World Ice Sledge Hockey

Hockey Canada is very proud of the players and staff nominated for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games,"

said Bob Nicholson, President and chief executive of Hockey Canada."

The Paralympics is the biggest stage for sledge hockey in the world and I know our athletes will play

Westlake and Brad Bowden will both be competing for the Canadian ice sledge hockey team at the Sochi

By Emily GoddardJanuary 18 - Germany's Tobias Hauke has been named as the International Hockey Federation's

teams that won Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, before going on to secure victory in the Hockey

I'm completely overwhelmed," Hauke, who received his award at the Hero Hockey World League Final in New

This award means a lot me personally but of course our titles at the Hockey World League Semi Final in

he produced a string of outstanding performances, but he really began to shine at last month's Hero Hockey

Belgium make it to EuroHockey finalAugust 2012: Rabente brace destroys Dutch as Germany retains Olympic hockey

By Zjan ShirinianJanuary 17 - Gay people should "leave children in peace", Russian President Vladimir Putin has said during a meeting today with Sochi 2014 volunteers.

by openly gay athletes: former tennis player Billie Jean King, Caitlin Cahow, a two-time Olympic ice hockey

By Gary AndersonJanuary 17 - The International Federation for sport for athletes with an intellectual disability (Inas) has today officially launched its bid to get basketball back on the programme for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

added to the list following London 2012.Basketball will be up against the likes of badminton, handball, hockey

By Gary AndersonJanuary 16 - Finland's Minister for Sport and Culture Paavo Arhinmäki has announced he is boycotting the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics because of concerns over Russia's human rights record.

by openly gay athletes: former tennis player Billie Jean King, Caitlin Cahow, a two-time Olympic ice hockey

By Paul OsborneJanuary 16 - International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson and Sébastien Foucan, the pioneer behind freerunning, will be among the speakers at the 2014 SportAccord International Convention, it was announced today.

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

AndersonJanuary 15 - Russia romped their way to a second successive victory at International Ice Sledge Hockey

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tournamentJuly 2013: Teams announced for Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey test event

By Emily GoddardJanuary 15 - Vancouver Deputy Mayor Tim Stevenson, who is openly gay, has been granted a visa to travel to Russia for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games where he is said to press International Olympic Committee (IOC) members to support gay athletes following the introduction of the nation's controversial anti-homosexual propaganda law.

high profile, openly gay figures, namely former tennis player Billie Jean King, two-time Olympic ice hockey

By Gary AndersonJanuary 14 - Cloud-based technology firm Octoshape will provide the online streaming services for the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) coverage of Sochi 2014, it was announced today.

four high definition channels will show live coverage of the Nordic skiing, alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey

action will be available on the IPC's YouTube channel including individual matches from the ice sledge hockey

medal by sweeping aside the challenge of Sweden in the opening match of the International Ice Sledge Hockey

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tournamentJuly 2013: Teams announced for Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey test event

strong second with around half Blatter's total of followers is Angela Ruggiero, the 34-year-old US ice hockey

By Paul OsborneJanuary 13 - More than 300 hours of live coverage will be broadcast from Sochi 2014, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced today. 

Four high definition channels will show live coverage of the Nordic skiing, alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey

of the day's competition, all the sporting action, including individual matches from the ice sledge hockey

Paul OsborneJanuary 12 - The United States triumphed over rivals Canada in their three-game ice sledge hockey

major defeats by their North American rivals in both the World Championships final and World Sledge Hockey

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By Nick ButlerJanuary 10 - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and King Willem-Alexander will each break the international trend and attend next month's Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi, it has been announced today.

delegation to be led instead by three openly gay figures in former tennis player Billie Jean King, ice-hockey

By Nick ButlerJanuary 9 - Thomas Hitzlsperger, who yesterday became the most prominent footballer to publicly reveal his homosexuality, has expressed his support for gay rights ahead of the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

for Sochi 2014 headed by three openly gay figures, former tennis player Billie Jean King, ice-hockey