By Duncan MackayFebruary 5 - A performance from figure skating stars Kim Yu-na and Michelle Kwan was the highlight of the Closing Ceremony of the 2013 Pyeongchang Special Olympics World Winter Games tonight.

the Ceremony.Before the Closing Ceremony started, participants paid tribute to Gareth Cowin, a floor hockey

By Duncan MackayFebruary 4 -  Bill Furniss, the man who helped guide Rebecca Adlington to four Olympic medals, has been named as British Swimming's new head coach, it was announced today. 

previously worked as a performance director for the Rugby Football Union and Great Britain and England Hockey

By Emily GoddardFebruary 4 - Jason Lee has been named as the new head coach of the England women's hockey

The 42-year-old former hockey player and double Olympian (pictured top), having represented Britain at

Germany 5-3 in the final.At London 2012, the Team GB men just missed out on their first Olympic men's hockey

Jason's wealth of experience is extremely valuable to England Hockey and whilst we feel that the men's

postsAugust 2012: We want to be Britain's best women's team, declares Team GB hockey coachAugust

2012: Tears rather than silver or gold for GB's London 2012 women's hockey team

By Tom DegunFebruary 4 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) are celebrating one year to go to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games on Thursday (February 7) with a full week of activities beginning today.

media teleconference on Wednesday (February 6) with Olympic medallists and 2014 hopefuls including ice hockey

By Mike RowbottomMike Hay knows what it takes to perform supremely well at Olympic level. After a competitive curling career in which he helped Scotland win five European titles and two world silver medals, he turned to a coaching career in which, most gloriously, he guided Rhona Martin and her team of Scotswomen to their never-to-be-forgotten performance at 2002 Salt Lake City, where they came from the brink of an early exit to win the first British Winter Games since Torvill and Dean's 1984 ice dancing triumph, making the front and well as the back pages in the UK and...

the city in the morning, then go up to the mountains to watch something, then come back and watch a hockey

Especially if Britain's ice hockey players succeed in winning their group at a qualifier tournament in

By Duncan Mackay at the Lotte Hotel in SeoulFebruary 1 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has praised Pyeongchang's early preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics after visiting the South Korean resort for the first time. 

 These included the ice skating and short track venue, the speed skating venue, and both ice hockey

suspended for one year by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after the Polish ice sledge hockey

analytical finding for Carboxy-THC in a urine sample given on November 17 at last year's IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Seoul January 31 - An athlete from the Isle of Man competing in the Special Olympic World Winter Games in Pyeongchang has died, it has been announced.

being transferred to Asan Hospital where he underwent treatment.Cowin had been due to compete in floor hockey

Cowin's father has asked that the floor hockey team continue to compete in the Games and they drew their

GoddardJanuary 31 - Two British Olympic medal winners have been named on the 18-strong England women's hockey

Championships last year.Giselle Ansley, Sarah Haycroft, Jo Hunter and Joanna Leigh all play their club hockey

in the Investec Women's Hockey League and were part of the side that overcame Germany in their last

alongside Laura Unsworth The world number four team will be led by Karen Brown, England's most capped hockey

player of all time, along with trip coaches England under-21 women's coach Craig Keegan and director of Hockey

By Duncan Mackay at the Yongpyong Dome in PyeongchangJanuary 29 - Pyeongchang's preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics underwent its first real test when the 10th Special Olympics World Winter Games opened here tonight at a ceremony attended by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

alpine skiing, cross country skiing, snowboarding, snow shoeing, speed skating, figure skating, floor hockey

By Emily GoddardJanuary 29 - The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has welcomed a Government funding boost of more than $31 million (£20 million/€23 million) to help the nation's winter sports in the final year of preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

biathlon, bobsleigh/skeleton/luge, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey

By Duncan MackayJanuary 28 - Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, is set to stand down as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after his mother, Queen Beatrice, announced today that she will abdicate on April 30 after 33 years as head of state, clearing the way for her eldest son to become the Netherlands' first King in more than a century.

Vriesman, who forfeited her place five years ago after she lost her position as head of the International Hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 28 - The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) have signed a major sponsorship deal with the Canadian Tire Corporation which will see the retail company become their Premier National Partner in an eight-year agreement.

agreements with the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), the Canadian Soccer Association, Skate Canada, Hockey

By James CrookJanuary 25 - Russian ice hockey star Alex Ovechkin will be allowed to compete at the 2014

Winter Olympics in Sochi regardless of whether National Hockey League (NHL) players are permitted to

OlympicsJanuary 2012: Putin calls for players to be released from NHL for Sochi 2014February 2010: Hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 25 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has invited sport organisations and clubs across the country to start applying for the 2013-2014 grant rounds of both the Para-Equipment Fund and the Recruitment Programme Fund.

local-level clubs to purchase adapted equipment for sports such as wheelchair basketball, ice sledge hockey