By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in LausanneDecember 4 - The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) were today suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) because of the row over its elections.

formed in 1927 and competed for the first time at the following year's Olympics in Amseterdam, when its hockey

By Emily GoddardDecember 3 - Bibian Mentel, the Dutch snowboarder who has won the first IPC-sanctioned event in the sport since it was accepted onto the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games programme on her home course in Landgraaf, joins compatriot wheelchair tennis player Jiske Griffioen on the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) shortlist for the Athlete of the Month title.

Russia's ice sledge hockey team defeated Germany 3-2 in a shootout at the 2012 Ice Sledge Hockey B Pool

World Championships Russia's ice sledge hockey team were also named finalists for the award following

their gold medal win at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey B Pool World Championships, which sees them move

By Emily GoddardDecember 3 - The Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on the London 2012 Olympic Park

field of the top eight men, eight women and four quad players in the world rankings.The Lee Valley Hockey

As the only purpose built venue for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre

The Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre on the Olympic Park hosted the London 2012 Paralympic tennis

By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - The £292 million ($468 million/€362 million) transformation of the Olympic Park officially begun today as the temporary seats installed at the Aquatics Centre for London 2012 were stripped away by builders. 

Olympic Park started as soon as London 2012 finished in SeptemberThe Riverbank Arena, which hosted hockey

competition and warm-up swimming pools during the Games, is to become a new sports facility called Lee Valley Hockey

and Tennis Centre.The 2015 European Hockey Championships are to be staged there and a bid is in to host

By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - Venues in the costal cluster for Sochi 2014 are close to being completed in time for a series of test events next month and early in 2013 , Russian President Vladimir Putin has been assured. 

 The Bolshoi Ice Dome and adjacent Shayba Arena will host ice-hockey matches, with the final

The Bolshoi Ice Palace is set to host the Ice Hockey Under-18 World Championships next April The

Bolshoi is due to host the Ice Hockey Under-18 World Championships from April 18 to 28"The arena

is 100 per cent ready to receive hockey players and guests – and host future victories," said Sergey

launched three new websites for the Paralympic sports of alpine skiing, Nordic skiing and ice sledge hockey

The city of Nagano in Japan will host the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey

commonly known as "Big Hat" due to its shape.The competition will be organised by the Japan Ice Sledge Hockey

On behalf of the local organising committee (LOC) and Japan Ice Sledge Hockey Association, I am glad

to announce that the LOC and IPC have happily signed the contract for hosting the 2013 Ice Sledge Hockey

see Paralympic winter sport continuing to grow in Asia and, for the first time ever, an ice sledge hockey

story at [email protected] storiesNovember 2012: Russia wins 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

By Tom Degun November 21 - Hockey star Alex Danson, who helped spearhead Team GB to a bronze medal at

Hockey proved one of the most attended sports at London 2012 as sell-out crowds flooded into the 15,000

Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park in Stratford to watch the action.Since the conclusion of the event, hockey

The Olympics showed that there is a real appetite for hockey and that the public want to see it."

Alex Danson’s crucial goals helped take the Team GB women’s hockey team to a bronze medal at the London

will open at Eton Manor on the Olympic Park will further help the game develop in the UK.The Olympic Hockey

By Duncan MackayNovember 19 - Denmark and Latvia have launched a joint bid to host the 2017 Ice Hockey

We are committed to our goals of developing hockey worldwide and creating a truly global platform for

our fans," said Henrik Bach Nielsen, the President of the Danish Ice Hockey Association."

We have been working very hard to develop hockey in Denmark in recent years.

Latvian Ice Hockey Federation President, Kirovs Lipmans, headed the successful World Championship in

 "Creating an unforgettable event for the global hockey fans in a passionate hockey nations."

By Tom Degun November 17 - Russia's ice sledge hockey team have given themselves a major boost ahead

period, Russia came out on top in the gold-medal game despite having only started their ice sledge hockey

Selyukin captained Russia to World Championships success only a few years after the country's sledge hockey

Simon Kunst shared the goalkeeping duties for the winning side, combining to record 11 saves.Ice sledge hockey

By Duncan MackayNovember 14 - Sochi are to put more than 100,000 tickets on sale for test events in the build-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics, local officials have announced. 

 Iceberg Skating Palace from December 6 to 9, the biathlon World Cup on March 4-10 and the Ice Hockey

By Sara EvansNovember 10 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) are to countdown 2012's top 50 Paralympic moments.

some great competition seen at the Nordic Skiing World Cup, and the Wheelchair Curling and Ice Sledge Hockey

By Mike RowbottomIn the inky blackness of the Krasnaya Polyana mountains at night there is discernibly what looks at first glance like the constellation of the Plough. On second look, it is no such thing – merely a similar pattern of twinkling lights on a dormant crane.When daybreak arrives, the crane swings back into action as the remorseless business of transforming the landscape into one capable of hosting the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games continues. The organisers are not so much reaching for the stars – although, uniquely, their Torch Relay will reach outer space at one stage...

the Universiade, the track and field World Championships, the world championships in swimming and ice hockey

ISU World Cup event that is expected to draw all the main Olympic contenders.Facilities for the ice hockey

The second-string ice hockey arena is no less imposing than the Bolshoy.

By Tom Degun November 6 - Switzerland's International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member René Fasel claims Lance Armstrong's credibility has already gone regardless of whether he is able to hold onto his Olympic bronze medal or not.

education in the war against doping in sport Fasel, who is also President of the International Ice-Hockey

It is the same with my sport of ice hockey, looking at protecting the athletes by not pushing them too