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squads have withdrawn from India in the last 18 months due to the threat of terrorism, but England Hockey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

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

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 12 - The chances of Thomas Bach (pictured) replacing Jacques Rogge as President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) when he steps down in 2013 have been boosted after he was today re-elected as vice-president.

; International Triathlon Union chief Marisol Casado; New Zealand's Barry Maister, a former Olympic hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 11 - Russian ice hockey player Svetlana Terenteva tonight became

February 11 - Ian Troop (pictured), a long-time food and consumer-goods executive with extensive experience in sports, has been chosen as the $350,000 (£212,000) per year chief executive of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, it was announced today.

He also served on an eight-man advisory board to provide legal and business advice to the National Hockey

By Duncan Mackay in VancouverFebruary 10 - The British Olympic Association (BOA) have hired the former United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chief communications officer, Darryl Seibel (pictured left), as a consultant for the Winter Olympics here and may extend the relationship to the London 2012 Games.

most of the last 20 years in the Olympic Movement, having previously worked with USA Wrestling, USA Hockey

By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver February 9 - American snowboarder Shaun White and South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-Na (pictured) are the highest-earning athletes competing here at the Winter Olympics with sponsorship deals amounting to $7.5 million (£4.7 million) a year, a new study published in Forbes magazine has revealed.

" The third highest-earning athlete on Forbes' list, which excludes professional NHL ice hockey

Few will recall that Britain actually won the ice-hockey gold medal in 1936.

By Tom Degun February 8 - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is putting on a special exhibition promoting the Movement during the Paralympics in Vancouver next month.

The IPC Exhibition will also give visitors the chance to test out sledge hockey, one of five Paralympic

February 6 - Authorities in New Delhi plan to use the hockey World Cup, which opens in the

The spokesman said: "Though the threat perception to Hockey World Cup is not as high as that

For the hockey World Cup, 13 countries, including Pakistan, England, Germany and Australia, are participating