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

By Duncan MackayDecember 10 - Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson's former mentor, Jenni Banks, has been appointed as UK Athletics' new wheelchair racing coach to help the team prepare for the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, it was announced today. 

Price, a former top-class hockey player before her career was ended by a serious knee injury, was also

By Tom DegunDecember 18 - American International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Anita DeFrantz says her country loves the Olympics and Paralympics and wants to host the Games with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Board set to meet this week to discuss a potential bid for either the 2024 Summer Games or 2026 Winter Games.

lead role for the five-person Working Group that also includes fellow IOC member Angela Ruggiero, USA Hockey

  American IOC member and Nagano 1998 ice hockey gold medallist Angela Ruggiero is part of the

By Duncan MackayDecember 14 - Double Olympic gold medallist and multiple world record holder for the pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva was today named as the Mayor of the main Olympic Village at Sochi 2014. 

Sea resort.In addition to the Athletes' Village, it will house the Olympic Stadium and arenas for ice hockey

By Mike RowbottomDecember 13 - Jade Jones winning Olympic gold in the taekwondo and then throwing her headguard in the air has been voted the most memorable moment of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in a poll carried out by BT, the official communications services partner of the Games.

in Britain.Crista Cullen winning the first Olympic medal in 20 years for Team GB women's hockey

was voted as the fifth most memorable moment of London 20125: GB women's hockey team winning bronze

at the Riverbank Arena, the first GB medal in women's hockey at the Olympics for 20 years.The rest of

By Mike RowbottomDecember 12 - Danny Kerry, who coached the British women's hockey team to a bronze medal

Kerry (pictured top), 42, head coach of England and Great Britain women's hockey since 2004, has overseen

Hockey has undergone a lengthy period of change since I began as head coach."

Danny Kerry led the British women's hockey team to a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics As

directors of England Hockey.Speaking of Kerry's appointment Sally Munday, chief executive of England Hockey

England Hockey chairman Philip Kimberley added: "Danny has very clear views on how we take our senior

By Duncan MackayDecember 11 - Canadian city Windsor will host the 2016 World Short Course Swimming Championships, it was announced by FINA in Istanbul today. 

multi-purpose entertainment complex which is home to the local city's professional basketball and ice hockey

By Emily GoddardDecember 11 - Russia's ice sledge hockey team have been named as the International Paralympic

Committee's (IPC) Athlete of the Month for November after winning gold at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

Dutch stars top IPC Athlete of the Month shortlistNovember 2012: Russia wins 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

By Mike RowbottomDecember 6 - Sarah Winckless, Olympic bronze medallist and double world champion rower, has held off the challenge of four London 2012 competitors – including fellow Olympic rowing medallists Zac Purchase and Alex Partridge – to earn re-election as chair of the British Olympic Association's (BOA) Athletes' Commission.

coxless fours and Olympic silver and bronze in the eight – Winckless faced competition from Britain's hockey

Hockey player Ben Hawes was among the five athletes confirmed to remain on the CommitteeIn order to establish

term to December 2014.The following athletes were confirmed to stay on the Committee: Ben Hawes from hockey

By Tom Degun December 6 - Record numbers of women and men in this country are playing sport every week following London 2012 according to new figures in the Sport England Active People Survey revealed today.

sports measured by the survey have shown a positive trend over the past year with athletics, judo, hockey

By Tom Degun December 6 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has named the 10 young golfers who will become the first athletes to represent Team GB in the sport for more than a century at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in Sydney next month.

120 selected athletes competing in the 11 sports of badminton, basketball, diving, golf, gymnastics, hockey