Olympics

Olympics in 2022 will not take place in Switzerland

The citizens of Swiss Grisons vote down the project for the application to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games by 52.7% of the vote Sunday. The cantonal turnout reached 59.1%, the highest in decades.
The two municipalities directly affected, Davos and St Moritz have yet approved the project and provided funding for the application by respectively 56.2% and 61% in their municipal elections also held on Sunday.

Nagano champions meet in Prague

Today, seventeen of twenty-two 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics gold medalist meet in Prague, Czech Republic, to remind the fifteen-years anniversary of the biggest Czech ice hockey success in history. The players went to the Olšany Cemetery to put down a wreath of flowers to the tomb of the 1998 Team Czech head coach Ivan Hlinka. Then they moved to the Veletržní Palác to see the exhibtion of the 1998 Nagano photographies. They also received replicas of their Nagano jerseys in gold colour and commemorative medals. The exhibition in the Veletržní Palác will be open to public on February 24. Then it will move to the Kinský Palace on the Prague's Old-Town Square to stay there until March 17, 2013.

René Fasel re-elected

The 124th IOC Session in London re-elected IIHF President René Fasel for another four years on the IOC Executive Board.

Vladimir Vujtek extends his contract

After the brillian campaign at World Championship, Slovakian Federation extended coach Vladimir Vujtek contract until Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. Original contract was signed until 2013 with a clause of automatic extension if Slovakia automatically qualified for Sochi

Werner Augsburger quits Sochi committee

Swiss Werner Augsburger quits his job as Sochi 2014 Olympic Games sports director after only four months. According Swiss Neue Zuercher Zeitung reason was a language barrier in Russia as well as the distance between Moscow and his family back home in Switzerland, even if Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko said later there were no language problems between Augsburger and committee.
Before joining Sochi 2014, Augsburger had been the chief executive of the Swiss Ice Hockey League for two seasons.

2018 Olympic Hockey in PyeongChang

The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in PyeongChang, Korea. It is the first time Korea will host a major ice hockey event.