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USA v Canada gold medal match.

Hockey and hostility: Canada blows gold medal match against the USA

Canada had more to gain, and to lose, as a nation now defined by resistance to a monstrous neighbour. The disappointment at the overtime defeat will reverberate for a long time.

  • Jake Niall

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The Brisbane Lightning Women’s Ice Hockey team is set to play their first game of the new season on November 8 at Iceworld Boondall.

‘Fast and physical’: Why Australia is getting into ice hockey

Ice hockey teams around the country are seeing bigger audiences turn out to watch the winter sport – even in summertime.

  • Dominique Tassell
Nova Peris has become a prominent advocate for Israel and voice against antisemitism.

‘Does not belong in this country’: Hockey Australia stands by Peris as more anti-Islam re-posts emerge

The Olympic champion shared a series of social media posts scathing of the religion in the lead-up to her election as a director of the government-funded sport.

  • Chris Barrett
Nova Peris, pictured celebrating winning a gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games (left) and taking cover in a bomb shelter in Israel last month.

Anti-Muslim post shadows Nova Peris’ election to Olympic sport board

The gold medallist became a Hockey Australia director weeks after sharing a comment that called Muslims “Satan worshipping cockroaches that need to be eradicated”.

  • Chris Barrett
Lauren Austin, 39, has been charged with sexual assault of a child.

Former Australian women’s indoor hockey coach admits to kissing teenage girl

Lauren Austin, 39, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday where she pleaded guilty to kissing a girl who was in her care.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Rowing Australia CEO Sarah Cook.

Olympic sports make 11th-hour bid for 2032 legacy

Olympic sports have made last-ditch appeals ahead of the Queensland government’s response to the independent 100-day infrastructure review being signed off by state cabinet on Monday.

  • Cameron Atfield
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Swimming and hockey both want legacy venues from the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Olympic sports push back on venue plan that would leave them with nothing

Hockey has made a pitch to ditch Ballymore for the Gold Coast, while swimming has called for a new aquatic centre at Victoria Park.

  • Cameron Atfield
An artist impression of Australia’s new high-performance hockey centre on the Curtin University campus.

Deal finally done to build home of Australian hockey in Perth

The new deal comes after protracted negotiations that spilled out into a public row between the state government and Curtin University.

  • Hamish Hastie
Mark Knowles.

An injury crisis could have ended his career. It put him in the Hall of Fame

Mark Knowles broke his ankle – twice – at 19, but went on to become one of the greats. He now wants the Brisbane 2032 plan changed to provide a legacy for his sport.

  • Nick Wright
Australian hockey player Tom Craig.

‘I’ve embarrassed you all’: Hockey star released as photo emerges of cocaine arrest

Tom Craig, 28, was taken into custody after French police alleged an Australian was attempting to obtain the drug in a trendy Paris neighbourhood.

  • Michael Chammas and Marta Pascual Juanola