Hockey

Hockey Canada is scheduled to unveil the jerseys that Canada's teams will wear at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games on Monday.

The organization chose that day because it coincides with the launch of the retail version of the sweaters. The unveiling will take place in a news conference in Vancouver at 4 p.m. EST at UBC Thunderbird Arena. CTVOlympics.ca will have live streaming video of the unveiling.

Hockey Canada's new sweater will lose the hockey player on the front, keep the maple leaf and include the COC logo and VANOC's inukshuk symbol and the five Olympic rings.

Representatives from Hockey Canada, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) will attend the news conference along with Nike Canada, the maker of the jersey.

Hockey Canada had to come up with a new jersey design for 2010 because the International Olympic Committee doesn't allow national sports federations to display their logo at the Games.

The logo had been used for the past 14 years, including at prior Olympics, but the IOC began cracking down at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing when it restricted the uniforms worn by the Argentine and Brazilian soccer teams.

The final design was Hockey Canada's fifth attempt at finding a compromise to the IOC's rule.