By Duncan Mackay at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in St PetersburgMay 27 - Lacrosse headed the sports accepted as a new members of the International World Games Association (IWGA) during its Annual Meeting here today.

Floorball is a type of floor hockey, an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden,

Teun de Nooijer are among the first athletes to have been inducted in to the newly created European Hockey

Nooijer, who took gold at both Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, Spain's Santi Freixa – an International Hockey

Since its foundation in 1969, the European Hockey Federation (EHF) has always valued its players with

, we feel that it is now time to honour those very special people that are involved on the field in hockey

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League comes to EnglandJune 2012: No chance for GB hockey team to claim Investec Cup after defeat

GoddardMay 23 - Sydney 2000 Olympian Robin D'Abreo has been named to return as the Canadian women's hockey

The appointment means the Winnipeg 1999 Pan American Games gold medal winning hockey player will move

from his role as Field Hockey Canada's (FHC) director of sport development to join its high performance

where he will work closely with head coach Ian Rutledge.As well as being a member of the Canadian men's hockey

Robin has coached a broad spectrum of women's field hockey provincially and nationally for nearly a decade

Canada's women's hockey squads have not qualified for an Olympic Games since Barcelona 1992, where they

By Emily GoddardMay 19 - Sweden has claimed their ninth International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World

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Championship to be broadcast free on YouTubeApril 2013: Actavis become official sponsor of 2013 and 2014 Ice Hockey

By Tom DegunMay 19 - Russia's double Olympic pole-vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been unveiled as an official ambassador for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.

Games.Nanjing 2014 will also feature unique disciplines such as three-on-three basketball and five-a-side hockey

By Duncan MackayMay 17 - Nintendo and Sega have a new partnerhsip to develop computer game Mario and Sonic for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, it was announced today. 

You'll also be able to compete against friends in curling, ice hockey, downhill, ski jump, speed skating

By Emily GoddardMay 17 - Russian Hockey Federation President Pavel Cherepanov has spoken of the huge

"honour" his nation feels to be hosting the upcoming men's Hockey World League Round Two event, claiming

competing at the semi-final qualifying event - which could lead to qualification for the 2014 Rabobank Hockey

The target of the Russian national team is to get into the next round and, thanks to Hockey World League

, we can promote hockey in Russia, which is just as important."

We are also planning a match between hockey veterans of the USSR and a 'rest of the world' team."

I am sure that Hockey World League will have a great impact on the development of hockey in the Russian

By Duncan Mackay at the Congress Center Kursaal in San MarinoMay 17 - Former United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Jim Scherr is set to join the Organising Committee of the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku. 

an advisor to Baku 2015.Scherr (pictured top) is currently Commissioner at National Collegiate Hockey

By Emily GoddardMay 16 - Sochi 2014 has announced it will unveil the medals for next year's Winter Olympics and Paralympics at this month's SportAccord International Convention, taking place in St Petersburg.

disciplines of seven winter sports, namely biathlon; bobsleigh – bobsleigh and skeleton; curling; ice hockey

include events in the five winter sports of alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, ice sledge hockey

By Emily GoddardMay 16 - The International Ski Federation (FIS) has named former International Ice Hockey

Federation (IIHF) and International Hockey Federation (FIH) official Jenny Wiedeke as its new communications

Graham Shaw have been confirmed as the latest former Ireland international players to join the nation's hockey

coach for the Ireland under-18 girls from 2007 to 2009, Logue has most recently been coaching Hermes Hockey

Club in the Irish Hockey League for the past few seasons following a spell at University College Dublin

League women's finalists Loreto.He also completed a men's Irish Hockey League and Irish Senior Cup double

as player/coach with Monkstown Hockey Club."

Everyone at Irish Hockey wishes both Mary and Graham all the best in their new roles," read a statement

By Emily GoddardMay 15 - Ian Silverman has been named as the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month for April after the American swimmer swam to two world records while qualifying for this year's IPC Swimming World Championships.

Championships in Minneapolis last month, received 38 per cent of the public's vote to beat Russian ice sledge hockey

Canadian ice sledge hockey player Greg Westlake, American wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden and Swedish

By Tom DegunMay 14 - The British Paralympic Association (BPA) have staged a two-day workshop at St George's Park in Staffordshire for team leaders of the winter sports as they step up their preparations for Sochi 2014.

Chef de Mission for Sochi 2014, while the sports of alpine skiing, wheelchair curling and ice sledge hockey

useful to gauge what we need to do in order to be best prepared for the coming months," said ice sledge hockey

By Emily GoddardMay 13 - Charlie Pereira will lead South Africa's men's hockey team to the Rio 2016 Olympics

as the squad's new head coach, the South African Hockey Association (SAHA) confirmed.

After Malaysia, the South African men's hockey team will head to Kenya to compete in the Africa Cup,

By Tom DegunMay 10 - The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) are set to host the official business lounge at the prestigious SportAccord International Convention later this month when the gathering is staged in St Petersburg from May 26 until 31.

completed projects for the London 2012, including the building of the iconic pink and blue synthetic hockey

project management for the Athlete' Village in Stratford, the building the iconic pink and blue synthetic hockey