By Tom DegunJanuary 22 - Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay Presenting Partner Coca-Cola has begun its campaign to select 2,014 Torchbearers with less than nine months before the journey gets underway.

actors and musicians.These include double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva, double ice hockey

By Tom DegunIt was no real surprise earlier this month when the British Paralympic Association (BPA) appointed their performance director Penny Briscoe as the ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.For over a decade now, Briscoe has helped mastermind the British team's performances at the Paralympics, where they have maintained a top three position for the three consecutive Summer Games she has been involved with.

There are currently four sports at the Winter Paralympics - alpine skiing, nordic skiing, ice sledge hockey

ParalympicsGB are looking to compete in the three sports of wheelchair curling, alpine skiing and ice sledge hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 21 - International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) chief René Fasel claims he is still

By Duncan MackayJanuary 16 - United States ice sledge hockey star Taylor Chace has been voted the International

The 26-year-old, who scored the winning goal in the gold-medal game of the 2012 World Sledge Hockey Challenge

their 3-2 overtime victory over the Canadians in Charlottetown.Chace had been a promising ice hockey

in an incomplete spinal cord injury and partial paralysis of his legs.Chace took up sledge hockey

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has today unveiled two new websites for the 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

first time an Asian country hosts the World Championships, which will be organised by the Korea Ice Hockey

Alexi Salamone and defender Taylor Chace will be ones to watch at the 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

to qualify for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games," Keith Blase, chairman of the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

In addition, they will create great exposure for the top ice sledge hockey athletes, raising their profiles

B Pool World ChampionshipsMay 2012: Goyang to host 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

By Tom DegunJanuary 15 - The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has today announced that their performance director Penny Briscoe will serve as the ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.

hoping to have a team competing in the three sports of wheelchair curling, alpine skiing and ice sledge hockey

By Lauren Mattera January 12 - Russian ice hockey star Alex Ovechkin has renewed his endorsement

The 27-year-old (pictured top) who captains the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL

Moscow.The deal is just one of many for Russia's most endorsed male athlete, as 2011 saw him leave ice hockey

USA's ice sledge hockey team will win their third straight World Championship titleThe Americans should

be the favourites to win gold at April's 2013 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey A Pool World Championships in Korea

summer's World Athletics Championships, and the 2018 World Cup finals, the forthcoming swimming and ice hockey

finishes on the international circuit, has been named as the new head coach of the United States women's hockey

Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Games, makes the move after having been assistant coach at Great Britain Hockey

Craig Parnham helped lead the British women's hockey team to a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympic

lead the women's programme through to Rio 2016," said Steve Locke, executive director of USA Field Hockey

Cup.Upon his retirement after the 2004 Olympic Games, Parnham embarked on a career with the Scottish Hockey

Cup.Parnham is set to relocate to Chula Vista with his wife, Emma, in early February, and USA Field Hockey

By Emily GoddardJanuary 8 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has named alpine skiers Alexey Bugaev, Anna Schaffelhuber and Tyler Walker on its shortlist for December's Athlete of the Month award following on from their successes at the IPC Alpine Skiing Europa Cup and NorAm Cup last month.

Fencing World Cup on home soil in Eger.American Taylor Chace completes the lineup after the ice sledge hockey

star scored the only goal in the US' 1-0 win over Canada in the gold-medal game of the World Sledge Hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 7 - Britain's double London 2012 wheelchair racing champion Hannah Cockroft was in attendance at the Youth Sport Trust's sixth National Talent Camp at Loughborough University where more than 90 youngsters from across the country were in attendance.

2013 camp with athletes selected to attend from rugby union, cycling, canoeing, volleyball, netball, hockey

featured sports coaches across ten sports including athletics, badminton, basketball, boccia, football, hockey

By James CrookJanuary 4 - United States hockey goalkeeper Amy Swensen has announced her retirement from

By Tom DegunJanuary 1 - International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President René Fasel claims he is

still confident that the world's top National Hockey League (NHL) players will compete at the Sochi 2014

the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.This is because Vancouver 2010 proved a major success in exposing hockey

looking good and we have two great arenas [the Bolshoi Ice Dome and the Shayba Arena] in place for ice hockey

The Bolshoi Ice Dome is one of two venues that will host ice hockey at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

players are not released, it would not mean a total disaster as he said there will be a fantastic ice hockey

Ice hockey is such a great game that whatever level you play, it is always exciting," he said."

By Tom DegunDecember 20 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) have secured their preparation camp for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Minas Tenis Clube (MTC) in the city of Belo Horizonte.

process that involved team leaders from the sports of aquatics, basketball, boxing, fencing, gymnastics, hockey