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IIHF to continue review of eligibility of players on China's men's team for Beijing 2022

  • Ice Hockey

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is set to review the eligibility of players on the Chinese

week discussed the host nation's team and is due to further analyse information from the Chinese Ice Hockey

the impact that would have on the tournament and the sport as a whole.Dozens of figures within ice hockey

2022 ©Getty ImagesSome of those set to feature on the Chinese team were involved in two Kontinental Hockey

losing 5-4 in overtime to Khabarovsk Amur and 4-1 to Omsk Avangard.Gregory Smyth, head of the China Hockey

It’s tough to see how anyone, or the game of hockey, wins at this point."





Switzerland imposes new COVID-19 border restrictions, casting doubt over Lucerne 2021

  • Lucerne 2021

Switzerland has imposed border restrictions against travellers from several countries where the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in a move which could impact the Lucerne 2021 Winter Universiade.

qualifier in Zimbabwe was abandoned yesterday because of the new strain, while next month's Women’s Junior Hockey





With the Grand Départ secured, Copenhagen harbours bigger, maybe Olympic, ambitions

  • The Big Read

Bicycles - gloriously, laboriously - are ever-present on the streets of Copenhagen. And so it seems right and fitting that one of the most cycling-friendly of cities should eventually be involved in the greatest of cycling races.

foundation in the country - include World Championships in road and track cycling, badminton, archery, ice hockey



Dutch win on penalties against rivals Belgium in Men's FIH Hockey Pro League

  • Hockey

match of the round in a thrilling shoot-out with regional rivals Belgium in the Men's International Hockey

Federation (FIH) Hockey Pro League on home soil at the Wagener Hockey Stadium in Amstelveen.

Belgium in the first of the two games at the #FIHProLeague pic.twitter.com/VtMwZ60vcC— International Hockey


Italy off to winning start in World Para Ice Hockey qualifier for Beijing 2022

  • Para Ice Hockey News

Italy defeated hosts Germany 4-1 as the World Para Ice Hockey Qualification Tournament got underway at

#Berlin2021 #ParaIceHockey @Paralympics @fisg_it pic.twitter.com/DneXetXXDi— Para Ice Hockey (@paraicehockey

#Berlin2021 #ParaIceHockey @Paralympics pic.twitter.com/enU0QNBoiL— Para Ice Hockey (@paraicehockey

) November 26, 2021Both Norway and Sweden have competed in ice hockey at every Winter Paralympics since


Outbreak of new coronavirus variant forces postponement of Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup

  • Hockey

The Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup, scheduled to be held in South Africa next month, has been postponed

tournament was scheduled to be held in Potchefstroom from December 5 to 16, although the International Hockey

the FIH, @SA_Hockey and the North-West University of Potchefstroom have jointly decided that the FIH Hockey

World Cup 2021, initially planned in Potchefstroom from 5 to 16 Dec has been put on hold— International Hockey

either banned flights from South Africa or asked returning travellers to quarantine.The Men's Junior Hockey


Philip Barker: Sport's journey from Kipling's "flannelled fools" to social warriors

  • Inside the Blogs

It is well over a century since Rudyard Kipling wrote The Islanders. It was a poem which spoke of "flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals".

Olympics gained traction after four-time gold medallist Hayley Wickenheiser, a doctor away from the ice hockey

 It was an illusion.The German ice hockey team for the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch Partenkirchen

The then International Ice Hockey Federation President René Fasel travelled to Minsk and was criticised

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko with a hug.Belarus was to have co-hosted the 2021 Men's Ice Hockey


Aracu to be re-elected unopposed as World Skate President

  • Skateboarding

Sabatino Aracu will be elected for a fifth term as President of World Skate when the organisation holds its COVID-19-delayed Congress in Rome tomorrow.

vice-president of World Skate, which also governs multiple disciplines beyond skateboarding, including rink hockey