The announcement was made last Monday and follows the death of American player Adam Johnson, who played for the Nottingham Panthers in the British Elite Ice Hockey League.

American Jordan Stolz clinched his first gold medal, while in the women's competition, Korean Kim Min Sun claimed the glory. Czech Martina Sablikova secured the 5000 meters after 3 years, and the Norwegian men and U.S. women took the Team Sprints.

50 countries from all continents have confirmed their participation in this initiative and will organise various events with local skating clubs, rinks and national skating federations in a spirit of inclusion and joy.

The FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup season is poised will start this weekend in Ruka, Finland, with the inaugural moguls and aerials competitions marking the first step of a thrilling season with Canadians as the main favourites.

Rome's FMSI laboratory is situated between rugby and hockey fields and fencing halls at an Italian Olympic Committee training centre north of the centre of Rome, and is under scrutiny from the world's anti-doping authority.

Once again, a record number of applicants for the Assist Fund have been established, who will receive registration subsidies. In this regard, the Hockey Canada Foundation announced that 3,322 young players across the country will receive subsidies for hockey registration fees for the 2023-24 season, a figure that becomes the highest in the four-year history of the program.

For almost two years now, the 17-year-old figure skater Kamila Valieva has been undergoing an ordeal following her positive test at the end of December 2021, which came to light two months later during the Beijing Winter Olympics, where she played a crucial role in Russia's team gold medal win.

Val Thorens hosted the first ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup event with a high-level spectacle. In the mixed relays category, the French duo of Emily Harrop and Thibault Anselmet delighted the audience by clinching the first victory of the 2023/24 season after a tough battle with the Spanish team (Oriol Cardona and Ana Alonso), who crossed the finish line in second place. Giulia Murada and Nicolo Canclini secured the bronze medal for Italy.

At just 22 years of age, Caroline Ulrich has already proven that she is ready to compete on the world stage alongside elite athletes. In her second season as an U23 athlete, she won the first event of the 2023/24 World Cup season this weekend, with Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Marianna Jagercikova (SVK) joining her on the podium.

Seventeen-year-old Ava Marie Ziegler, in a stunning performance, clinched the one-two for the United States, leaving Lindsay Thorngren behind and securing the NHK Trophy in Osaka, Japan. In the men's category, Kagiyama Yuma dazzled with the highest score globally in the men's short program, surpassing Uno Shoma.

Almost a century after bobsleigh was recognised as an Olympic sport at the 1924 Winter Games, 96 years later at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games, six disciplines were included in the programme (2-man bobsleigh, 2-woman bobsleigh, 4-man bobsleigh, women's monobob, women's skeleton, and men's skeleton).

With the arrival of winter, the ISMF World Cup kicks off. Val Thorens (France) is the chosen venue to raise the curtain on a competition that will consist of seven tests.

On March 1, 2022, the International Ski Federation (FIS) decided, with immediate effect and in the middle of the season, that no Russian or Belarusian skier would be allowed to compete at any level until the end of the 2021-2022 season due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

For the Olympic silver medallist in 2022, it was his first win in the four-man bobsleigh since 2020, but the next day he added his second win. The German is unstoppable. On the first day, with push athletes Georg Fleischhauer, Erec Bruckert, and Florian Bauer, Lochner relegated his teammate.

Hockey Canada's 13 members have elected the organisation's new volunteer Board of Directors, following a vote at the Hockey Canada 2023 Annual General Meeting in Montreal.