The introduction of ice hockey was made in 1920 at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp. Ice hockey was held in the very First Winter Olympics that occurred four years later. The Olympic Program that occurred in Nagano 1998 included a woman's ice hockey sports event also. This is when Ice hockey competition opened up to professionals for the first time.
Summer Olympics held the first ever Olympic Ice Hockey in 1920 in which Canada won the gold medal with United states and Szechoslovakia coming in second and third respectively. Various sports pages signify this history of ice hockey.
In the first four Winter Olympic Games, Canada remained undefeated in ice hockey. Canada at last lost to Great Britain, which won the gold medal, in March 1936 and made sports headlines.
A hockey team was sent by both the American Olympic Committee and the American Hockey Association in St Moritz in 1948. Due to this they were banned by IOC for the medal.
The Soviet Union won most of the medals out of all the countries in its first joining in in the Winter Olypics besides winning the gold medal in ice hockey
The history shows that a seventh gold medal was won by the Canadian hockey team in their eighth Olypic participation in Oslo 1952. Although it took fifty years before they won any medal again.
The winning of the U.S ice hockey team for the first time disturbed the Canadian team as well as the Soviet teams which took place in 1960 in the Squaw Valley.
In 1976 at Innsbruck, a fourth gold medal was won by the Russian ice hockey team.
A major sports event that is the match between USA and USSR was called the "Miracle on ice" when USA won over the USSR not to the happiness of anyone in 1980 at Lake Placid.
Ice hockey competitions were accessible for the first time in 1998 to the professionals. The first match was won by Czech Republic. The women participated for the first time in ice hockey and Canada lost to United States with a score of 3-1 in the finals of the debut of woman's ice hockey tournament.
Ice hockey team of the Canadian men in 2002, won the gold medal after 50 years. USA came second after the Canadian women. Many sports pages mention Jarome Iginia was the first gold medalist who was black, at the Winter Olympics, in the men's hockey team.
NHL-sized ice was used for the first time in Vancouver 2010 for women's and men's hockey, which saved a new rink in the building and made sports headlines.
The team that won side by side gold medals after the Soviet Union won at Olympics of 1984 and 1988, it were the Canadian men in 2014.
For the Winter Olympics 2018 in April 2017, however a declaration was received by the NHL stating their players would be unavailable for the tournament.