By Nick ButlerNovember 7 - Poland and Slovakia officially announced the launch of their joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympics Games this afternoon, as was revealed last week on insidethegames.

skiing and biathlon would also be held in Poland in the nearby mountain resort of Zakopane, but ice hockey

By Paul OsborneNovember 7 - A new long term partnership has been announced between the Turkish Basketball Federation and international sports marketing company Infront Sports and Media.

writer of this story at [email protected] storiesOctober 2013: European Ice Hockey

England, India, Malaysia and New Zealand are all preparing to learn the fate of their bids for the 2018 Hockey

races entering their final stage, the four nations will make their last pitches to the International Hockey

Grant and with London 2012 still fresh in the minds of many.India is bidding to host the 2018 Men's Hockey

World Cup"We have a clear goal to increase the visibility of hockey in England, which in turn will help

World Cups July 2013: Exclusive - We are definitely going for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup

, says RobertsonMay 2013: Five nations gear up to bid for 2018 Hockey World Cup after dedicated

By Nick ButlerNovember 6 - A 12 month long process was launched today to decide which sports, and which disciplines, are included on the programme for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

programme but are recognised by the IPC appear the ones most likely to be added.These consist of handball, hockey

By Gary AndersonNovember 5 - Table table players Robert Davies of Britain and China's Pan Feng Feng, along with shooters Natascha Hiltrop of Germany and Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson, are among the six athletes nominated for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for October, it was announced today.

They are joined by South Korean ice sledge hockey player Seung-Hwan Jung and Thailand's boccia athlete

Seung-Hwan Jung was an instrumental part of his country's performance at the Sochi 2014 Ice Sledge Hockey

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sporting advantages of university are variety and opportunity.Out of my first year neighbours we had hockey

But we also had a windsurfer, a table-tennis player and, bizarrely, an underwater hockey player.

3 - India's men and Belgium's women have become the latest squads to book their places at the 2014 Hockey

their spots and, therefore, opened up the door to squads that finished outside of the top three at the Hockey

Kyocera Stadium between May 31 and June 15 next year.Belgium's women's squad has secured a place at the Hockey

Australia beat hosts New Zealand to secure Oceania Cup titles October 2013: Kenya to host rescheduled hockey

after shopping mall massacreOctober 2013: Triple Olympian Walsh brought in to lead Indian men's hockey

By Emily GoddardNovember 3 - Australia's men's and women's hockey squads have both beaten their respective

this story at [email protected] storiesJune 2013: Australian women crowned Hockey

By Gary AndersonNovember 1 - Canada's Clean Air Champions (CAC) charity, supported by some of the country's top Olympic and Paralympic athletes, has been awarded the 2013 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sport and Environment Award at the IOC World Conference on Sport and the Environment in Sochi.

which include the HSBC Clean Air Achievers, High School Climate Change and Air Aware campaigns.Canadian hockey

By Nick ButlerNovember 1 - Celebrations to mark 100 days to go to the start of Sochi 2014 have continued with the release of a final set of stamps completing the "Olympic Winter Sports" series which began in 2011.

nbsp;They feature athletes from three of the most popular Winter Olympic sports for spectators, ice hockey

By Duncan MackayOctober 31 - Poland and Slovakia will bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics with Krakow as the main centre, it was confirmed today.

would handle snowboarding, cross country skiing and the biathlon.The Slovaks are keen on hosting ice hockey

By Emily GoddardOctober 30 - The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has celebrated the Sochi 2014 100 days to go milestone today with the launch of a mobile phone application.

Albertville 1992 bronze medallist Seiko Hashimoto along with seven players from Japan's women's ice hockey

songs will then be shared with Japan's athletes competing at Sochi 2014.As well as the women's ice hockey

America face a tough task if they are to successfully defend their Winter Paralympic ice sledge hockey

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Qualification TournamentOctober 2013: South Korea, Italy and Sweden secure Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey

places September 2013: Gold medal winning US ice sledge hockey captain retains role for Sochi 2014April

2013: Canada defeat USA to claim title at Sledge Hockey World ChampionshipsApril 2013: USA set to face

Canada for gold at IPC Sledge Hockey World Championships

By David OwenWhen Thomas Bach, the new International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, bumps into Sebastian Coe, he sometimes greets him jokingly as "Shakespeare". And when the British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman returns the greeting, he will often refer to his old friend as "the professor".The derivation of the joke dates back more than three decades, to 1981 to be precise, when the two men were at the heart of what, in retrospect, can be described as a veritable Olympic revolution.The unlikely setting for this event was the tranquil German town of Baden-Baden with, as one contemporary chronicler put it, "its...

German fencer who had missed the Moscow Games because of the boycott, Vladislav Tretiak, the Soviet ice-hockey

went head-to-head in the gold medal match of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

Norway, Czech Republic, the United States and hosts Russia as the final line-up for the ice sledge hockey

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placesOctober 2013: Strong Japanese anti-doping credentials reinforced by ice sledge hockey education

two from two in TurinOctober 2013: Italy move closer to Sochi 2014 Paralympic spot as Ice Sledge Hockey