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

By Gary AndersonSeptember 9 - The British Sledge Hockey Association (BSHA) has revealed the 14 players

It was at Turin 2006 that Britain last competed in ice sledge hockey at the Paralympics, with a side

their Pool B bronze medal finish at this year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

[email protected] StoriesAugust 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

Peris, the first Aboriginal Australian to secure an Olympic gold medal when she featured on the winning hockey

seats available.She is only the fourth indigenous person to sit in Parliament House.Peris switched from hockey

By Emily GoddardSeptember 3 - Double Olympic rowing gold medallist Andrew Triggs Hodge has been named today as one of five new appointments to the UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) Athlete Committee.

champion, will sit Beijing 2008 silver medallist and former world time trial cycling champion Emma Pooley, hockey

months to go until the start of the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games, the Four Nations ice sledge hockey

competition "The Four Nations ice sledge hockey tournament has been an excellent opener for the

"More than 60 athletes from four major hockey nations got to take to the ice in the new Shayba Arena.

hockey at the Paralympic Winter Games will be played."

: Sochi 2014 releases tickets for Four Nations ice sledge hockey test eventJuly 2013: Teams

announced for Sochi 2014 ice sledge hockey test event