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FIH sets August 26 deadline for Presidency nominations

  • Hockey

A deadline of August 26 has been set for nominations to be the next International Hockey Federation (

Narinder Batra resigned last month, citing "personal reasons".Seif Ahmed from Egypt, who leads the African Hockey


Tonga

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Birmingham 2022 would surely have felt insignificant in Tonga when a massive volcano blast rocked the Pacific country in January.

island of Tongatapu.The baton was also taken to Captain Cook’s Landing Place by a member of the youth hockey


UK Sport broadens funding for Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics

  • Milan Cortina 2026

UK Sport has announced a funding package of £24.2 million ($29.1 million/€28.6 million) for winter sports to cover the cycle until the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

six total for Beijing 2022.Curling, ski and snowboard, bobsleigh and skeleton, luge, skating and ice hockey

£4.8 million ($5.8 million/€5.7 million) in skeleton.Curling, skiing, snowboarding, skating and ice hockey

Biathlon and ski mountaineering are the two Winter Olympic sports absent from the funding, while ice hockey


Hockey Canada publishes action plan tackling "toxic behavior" and pledges further reforms

  • Ice Hockey

Crisis-hit Hockey Canada has released an action plan designed to combat "toxic behavior" and a "code

group sexual assault levied against players from the junior national teams several years apart, while Hockey

sexual violence allegedly carried out by some of its players.Earlier this year it became known that Hockey

We know we need to do more to address the behaviours that conflict with what Canadians want hockey to

is Canada's national winter sport and Hockey Canada by extension one of the nation's most important

Canada says all high-performance athletes, coaches and team staff, plus all Hockey Canada staff and


CGF and GEF Presidents among more than 50 speakers at Commonwealth Esports Forum

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Dame Louise Martin, Global Esports Federation (GEF) President Chris Chan and the United Kingdom's Minister for International Trade Ranil Jayawardena have been named among the more than 50 speakers at the Commonwealth Esports Forum here.

Company chief executive Neil Rami.Former International Olympic Committee member and Olympic women's ice hockey


Exclusive: IOA secretary general says Executive Committee meeting can only be held after Birmingham 2022, despite IOC warning

  • Olympics

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) secretary general Rajeev Mehta has claimed that any Executive Committee meeting with regards to elections can only be held after the 2022 Commonwealth Games here, following an International Olympic Committee (IOC) warning the IOA could be suspended.

stepped down as IOA President ©Getty ImagesBatra recently resigned as President of the International Hockey


Pakistan

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

You have to go all the way back to Edinburgh 1970 to find the last time Pakistan won more than two gold medals at a single edition of the Commonwealth Games.

Pakistani heritage.They will be competing in athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cricket, gymnastics, hockey

wrestling ©Getty Images"I am also quite confident that we may spring some major surprises in squash, hockey

squash champion in the 1980s, comes from a golden era of Pakistan sport which also includes the men's hockey


Kenya

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Kenya has long dominated distance running at the Commonwealth Games but will arrive at Birmingham 2022 with a point to prove.

Birmingham in all, and will also compete in 3x3 basketball, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, cycling, hockey


Police investigate two alleged sexual assaults as Hockey Canada scandal deepens

  • Ice Hockey

criminal investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of Canada's 2018 junior ice hockey

Earlier this year it became known that Hockey Canada had reached a settlement with a woman who claimed

to have been assaulted by players on the title-winning 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship side.The

incident occurred following a Hockey Canada gala in London, Ontario.Hockey Canada received sharp criticism

Hockey Canada has a lot of work to do on this issue before they regain the trust of Canadians.

Hockey Canada is committed to bringing an end to the culture of silence in hockey," read the statement


Olympic ice hockey champion Cameranesi announces retirement

  • Ice Hockey

American ice hockey player Dani Cameranesi, who won gold with the women's national team at the Pyeongchang

Cameranesi also won two gold medals at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's World Championship

“Since the age of five, there hasn’t been a day where hockey has not been my ‘why.’"

pic.twitter.com/lfDdRtq7ZR— USA Hockey (@usahockey) July 20, 2022"Since the age of five, there hasn't

been a day where hockey has not been my 'why'." said Cameranesi."

Katie Million, director of the USA Hockey women's national team programme, called her a "key reason"



Hockey Canada will no longer use National Equity Fund to settle sexual assault claims after public outcry

  • Ice Hockey

Hockey Canada has promised to no longer use the National Equity Fund, maintained by membership fees collected

reached an out-of-court settlement after a woman alleged she was sexually assaulted by eight Canadian Hockey

League players in Ontario in 2018.Hockey Canada has reopened the investigation after public pressure

This includes counselling and treatment for players, concussion research grants to the Canadian Hockey

League, criminal record checks of Hockey Canada staff, donations to Kids Help Phone, as well as a range

I think right now it's hard for anyone in Canada to have faith or trust in anyone at Hockey Canada,"


Fedotov thanks supporters and files complaint in Russian court after being ordered to complete military service

  • Ice Hockey

Russian Olympic silver medallist Ivan Fedotov has officially registered a complaint in court after the Government tried to recruit him for military service in Ukraine as he smuggled a message out thanking people for their support. 

Beijing.The 25-year-old Finnish-born Russian signed a one-year entry level contract with the National Hockey

League’s Philadelphia Flyers in, after the conclusion of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season,

we would like to pass on his words of gratitude: Thank you to all my fans in this difficult moment, hockey

Ivan earned an NHL contract, which is the dream of every hockey player."

I've been told to mind my own business and play hockey."He wanted to do that too."


Egyptian Ahmed appointed FIH Acting President following Batra resignation

  • Hockey

Egypt's Seif Ahmed has been appointed as the Acting President of the International Hockey Federation

successor to Batra is due to be elected in November.The appointment of Ahmed, President of the African Hockey

 Seif Ahmed has been President of the African Hockey Federation since 2004 ©Getty ImagesBatra had

player, challenged Batra's appointment as life member of Hockey India.The FIH Executive Board announced

that it had decided to send a delegation to India soon, in order to assess the current situation of Hockey

India.The issue is especially pressing as the next FIH Hockey Men’s World Cup is currently planned to