By Gary AndersonSeptember 20 - Official Team USA sponsor, Citi has today unveiled the nine athletes that will form Team Citi for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Turin 2006 combined alpine skiing Olympic champion Ligety and double Olympic women's hockey silver medal

list of medal winners and they are joined by four-time Olympic luge competitor Hamlin and ice sled hockey

former world and Commonwealth-champion swimmer Brent Hayden (pictured left) and gold medal-winning ice hockey

Pat Quinn led Canada to their first ice hockey Olympic gold medal at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002The

and owner, first making a move to Vancouver to be a part of the Vancouver Canucks inaugural National Hockey

crowning glory came at the Salt Lake City Winter Games in 2002 where he led Canada to their first ice hockey

By Nick ButlerSeptember 19 - Budapest will host the the 2014 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF

There is a very good feeling in the Hungarian ice hockey community right now due to the girls' positive

insidethegames.bizRelated storiesApril 2013: Canada ends US dominance to take under-18 world ice hockey

By James CrookSeptember 18 - Swedish ice sledge hockey forward Peter Ojala has spoken of his confidence

South Korea, Germany, Japan and Britain at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

I think we have seen that we can play good hockey but that we have to work a lot in the next weeks to

The IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Qualification Tournament takes place on October 20-26.Contact the writer of

[email protected] storiesSeptember 2013: Gold medal winning US ice sledge hockey

test event to a closeAugust 2013: Russia push world champions close at Four Nations ice sledge hockey

GoddardSeptember 17 - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has today warned the organisers of the 2014 Ice Hockey

postponement".His comments follow a move by the European Parliament, which urged the International Ice Hockey

allow it to discriminate on political grounds, while officials from the Latvian and Lithuanian ice hockey

have no desire for "mixing politics with sports".Lukashenko has overseen the construction of 30 ice hockey

And if this happens, this will be a blow to the world hockey federation's image."

at [email protected] storiesAugust 2009: Belarus to host 2014 World Ice Hockey

By Emily GoddardSeptember 17 - Pakistan's hockey players will be absent at next year's Commonwealth Games

Glasgow 2014 and comes barely after a month after the nation failed to qualify for the 2014 International Hockey

struggle.Although Pakistan is sending athletes to compete in other sports at next year's event, the national hockey

Every Pakistani has an emotional association with hockey but the apathy from the hockey officials has

led to this exclusion," POA President Arif Hasan said.Pakistan won the hockey silver medal at the Melbourne

August 16 deadline to submit an entry but the POA had not received the required assurances from the hockey

By Gary AndersonSeptember 16 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has today admitted that there are still some "ongoing glitches" in the build-up to next year's Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi and warned that he will "be coming here more often" to ensure preparations remain on track.

million) RIOU campus is also set to welcome international athletes including United States women's hockey

By Gary AndersonSeptember 16 - USA Hockey announced today Andy Yohe will lead the reigning ice sledge

hockey Paralympic champions at Sochi 2014 with Taylor Chace and Josh Sweeney named alternate captains

World Championships in Ostrava, as well the World Sledge Hockey Challenge title in the same year and

the 2010 Japan Para Ice Sledge Hockey Championships.Returning to action this year, Yohe will be supported

Challenge and 2013 USA Hockey Sled Cup, as well as a silver medal at the World Championships in South

team announced for Sochi 2014July 2013: US holds Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey tryoutsApril 2013

to face Canada for gold at IPC Sledge Hockey World ChampionshipsFebruary 2013: US Hockey confirm

Bids have also been launched for events in hockey and cycling.

By Gary AndersonSeptember 13 - Japan's ice sledge hockey squad has been named for the Sochi 2014 Paralympics

this year which saw them take silver in the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

this story at [email protected] StoriesSeptember 2013: British ice sledge hockey

team announced for Sochi 2014 qualifiersAugust 2013: Turin to host Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey

qualifiersMarch 2013: Germany lift IPC World Sledge Hockey Championship title as Britain keep Sochi

2014 hopes aliveMarch 2013: Hosts Japan to face Germany in IPC World Sledge Hockey Championship

By Gary AndersonSeptember 13 - Sapporo in Japan will host the women's 2015 World Curling Championships, it has been announced today. 

The Tsukisamu Gymnasium played host to ice hockey matches during the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympic Games

By Emily GoddardSeptember 13 - British Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has said it is her goal to add a Commonwealth Games gold medal to her collection of accolades as the Glasgow 2014 ambassador urged fans to snap up tickets for next year's event before the Monday (September 16) deadline.

Glasgow 2014, who advised that the best opportunities for successful applications are for rugby sevens, hockey

new Olympic elements combined to provide outstanding points of interest.The introduction of National Hockey

lost its most potent ratings-grabber when the US team disappeared at the quarterfinal stage of the ice hockey

By Gary AndersonSeptember 11 - Sport Wales has announced the appointment of former Welsh hockey

and is currently a non-Executive Board member of the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales (CGCW).As a hockey

nbsp;Commonwealth Games, and following her retirement she took up a role coaching the Welsh under-18 hockey

and sailing silvers respectively, while Sarah Thomas bagged a bronze as part of the British women's hockey

Australia, England, India, Malaysia and New Zealand - have submitted official bids to host the 2018 Hockey

World Cups, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) revealed today.

received such an excellent response from national associations regarding the great opportunity to host Hockey

to allocate events earlier and across the entire four-year cycle was absolutely the right move for hockey

events in the world, which is in line with our strategy to take hockey to the next level."

New Zealand is the only bidding nation not to have hosted either the men's or the women's Hockey World

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