By David GoldJanuary 26 - Great Britain's women's hockey coach, Danny Kerry, has criticised the new format

FIH (International Hockey Federation) need to think much harder before they tinker with tournament format

delighted that they are involved, and says that their investment "allows us to raise the profile of women's hockey

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By Tom DegunJanuary 23 - The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) have launched a new marketing campaign which sees their top athletes, such as seven-time Paralympic cross-country skiing champion Brain McKeever, feature in a series of 45-second animated mini-films or vignettes called "Super Athletes".

with wheelchair curler Sonja Gaudet, the Vancouver 2010 champion known as "The Brain", Canadian sledge hockey

{jcomments off}By Tom Degun in InnsbruckJanuary 22 - In keeping with the theme of the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games, an unspectacular yet charming and vibrant Closing Ceremony bought proceedings to a close at Innsbruck 2012 as an enthusiastic crowd of 4,000 gathered in the city centre at the Maria-Theresien-Strasse for the climax of the successful ten-day competition.

doubles competition in curling; the mixed sport event cross-country/biathlon; mixed gender luge and ice hockey

By Tom Degun in InnsbruckJanuary 21 - Short track speed skaters Jack Burrows and Aydin Djemal have made history as the duo became the first ever British athletes to win medals at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.

up a medal in the first seven days of competition despite Katherine Gale just missing out in the ice hockey

3-on-3 Singapore competition was.Following the example of 3-on-3 basketball, the International Ice Hockey

best 15 female athletes from nations other than those which have qualified to compete in the main ice hockey

much time to move from one challenge to another, or maybe it was because knowing that the best ice hockey

that you could potentially be very good at the skills challenge and not necessarily any good at ice hockey

with the opinion that they are fortunate to have the team tournament here and that is the only ice hockey

By Tom Degun in InnsbruckJanuary 15 - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak has revealed here his biggest concern for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is, not that the venues will not be ready in time, but that Russia's top athletes put in poor performances at the competition and finish low down on the overall medal table.

constructing all the venues, such as the Bolshoi Ice Palace (pictured), which is due to host the ice hockey

By Duncan MackayJanuary 13 - Canadian Alpine skier Alexandra Starker has won the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for December, it has been announced. 

per cent of the vote on the IPC's Facebook poll, beating fellow Canadian Greg Westlake, an ice sledge hockey

athletics while cross country skier Scott Dixon is the son of six-time Olympic biathlete Mike Dixon.Two ice-hockey

  But I hope there will be some sports which surprise us like women's football and hockey and sports

By Tom DegunJanuary 9 - Peter Mennel, secretary general of the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC), has claimed that topping the medal table at the Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympics is not the most important thing for the young Team Austria that will compete in the inaugural competition in front of their home crowd.

That way I will already have your autograph when you win a medal," she joked.Austria's men's ice hockey

By Duncan MackayJanuary 9 - London 2012 has begun making preparations for the Olympics and Paralympics after officially taking control of the Olympic Park, including releasing details of new Games-time naming for selected venues and spectator areas.

venues renamed after the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) handed over control off the Park are the Hockey

By Duncan MackayJanuary 8 - Switzerland has appointed leading official Gian Gilli to carry out a feasibility study into a proposed joint bid from Davos and St Moritz to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, it has been announced.

was the chief organiser of the 2003 World Skiing Championships in St Moritz and the 2009 World Ice Hockey

By Duncan MackayJanuary 6 - The sports director of the 2014 Sochi Olympics and Paralympics, Werner Augsburger (pictured), has resigned after only four months in the role and returned to Switzerland because he claimed that the language barrier was too big an obstacle to overcome.

a new job.Before joining Sochi 2014, Augsburger had been the chief executive of the Swiss Ice Hockey

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Olympic Committee (USOC), has been appointed as the first Commisioner of the National Collegiate Hockey

I am honoured to have been selected by the National Collegiate Hockey Conference to become its first

once-in-a-career opportunity and I look forward to leading a conference, including the eight outstanding hockey

The eight member institutions of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference are Colorado College, University

begin building a staff and working on several key organizational functions and projects, including hockey

leadership, vision and credibility to make our new conference the benchmark for excellence in collegiate hockey

By Tom DegunJanuary 3 – Sliding sports could added to the Paralympic sport programme by the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games, if a proposal by Bob Balk, the chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council, is accepted.

There are just four sports on the sports programme at the Winter Paralympic Games with sledge hockey

;     The sports that invest the most in EIS' services are athletics, canoeing, hockey