By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 23 - Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's victory in the ice dance at the Olympics here has helped stem some of the criticism growing in Canada over the team's failure to fulfil expectations that they would challenge for the top spot in the medals table.

wild celebrations on the day after the US had pulled off a shock victory over Canada's men's ice hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 23 - A public exhibition on topics relating to the Paralympic Movement, entitled "Spirit in Motion - Discover, what moves on" - will be set-up in Whistler for the Paralympics next month sponsored by Otto Block HealthCare.

Sports for people with disabilities can be experienced in the form of sledge ice hockey; visitors will

attempt to score a goal while strapped into an original ice hockey sledge from Otto Bock.

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 22 - Yevgeny Plushenko (pictured), the Turin 2006 Olympic figure skating champion so controversially beaten here, has agreed to become one of the facts of the 2014 Games in Sochi, it has been announced.

" He joins a team of ambassadors that includes ice hockey players Sergey Fedrov and Alexander

By Tom Degun February 22 - Britain’s Richard Whitehead (pictured) destroyed the amputee half marathon world record in Wokingham as he recorded a time of 1 hour 17min and 45sec over the 13.1 mile distance.

Whitehead, a double amputee from birth who represented the  Britain ice sledge hockey team

February 20 - Pakistan have said that they are satisfied with the security arrangements for the hockey

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) have ended fears that they would withdraw from the tournament

Rana Mujahid, the secretary of the Punjab Hockey Association, led the delegation.

claims February 2010: England trying to shrug off Delhi security concerns February 2010: Hockey

February 19 - A successful hockey World Cup in India will be the start of the sport's revival in India

, Leandro Negre (pictured), the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has predicted.

India were once the dominant power in hockey, winning the Olympic gold in every Games between 1928

The Spaniard said: "As India is a key market for hockey, it will have the opportunity to host

"For us, a fair election of Hockey India is still absolutely necessary.

"Ticket sales are good and we hope it will be the best hockey event ever.

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By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 19 - Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky (pictured) has added

Committee (USOC) spokesman at 13 Games, including one in Nagano following the departure of our NHL hockey

The IOC has had its share of issues already, with its demand that our men’s ice hockey goaltender

These issues were soon forgotten in the wake of the US ice hockey team’s improbable "

Australia is satisfied with the security arrangements put in place by the Indian authorities for the hockey

" Smith also believed similar security measures were in place for this month's men's hockey World

athletes ahead of the Commonwealth Games along with cricketers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and hockey

Hockey Australia has said no Kookaburras players have indicated they want to pull out of the men's World

By Tom Degun February 18 - Britain can make a real impact at the Winter Paralympics in Vancouver next month, the chairman of Paralympics GB Tim Reddish (pictured) has predicted.

He said: "In Turin, we proudly bought home a silver medal in curling and our skiers and sledge hockey

They are alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.

February 14 - Canadian and international hockey officials will meet in August to tackle issues such

as the future of National Hockey League (NHL) players in the Olympics and disparity in the women's game

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Hockey Canada and the National Hockey League will

"For the first time we will have the world's major hockey organisations together discussing essential

issues like the future of hockey within the Olympics and international hockey in general, global development

"It was great to have hockey players involved in Nagano and we would like to see it happen in 2014

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 14 - Russia's Niyaz Nabeev (pictured) and Estonia's Kaspar Kokk have both returned positive results for high haemoglobin values, the International Ski Federation (FIS) announced here today.

no scandals at these Games but on the eve of the opening ceremony it was revealed that Russian ice hockey

February 14 - England's hockey players are determined to embark on a successful World Cup campaign

England Hockey were still waiting on detailed safety plans from the International Hockey Federation

European champions will continue to prepare professionally for one of the most lucrative events on the hockey

squads have withdrawn from India in the last 18 months due to the threat of terrorism, but England Hockey

"England Hockey is on the crest of a wave, indoors and outdoors, and there's no reason why it should

February 2010: Metropolitan Police insist England in no danger in Delhi February 2010: Hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 12 - The Olympics officially opened here tonight, ending a seven-year wait for Vancouver, but the ceremony was overshadowed by the death earlier in the day of Georgia's Nodar Kumaritashvili.

of a record-breaking 28,000-mile, 106-day trip across the country and four athletes, including ice hockey

February 12 - India will be safe for England's athletes to compete in, a senior officer from the Metropolitan Police said today after visiting New Delhi.

Commissioner, made the assessment after visiting the Indian capital to inspect the arrangements for the hockey

Stadium, which will be the centrepiece of the World Cup, he said: "Security plans for the hockey