The IPC faced criticism after originally allowing the two nations to compete Russian and Belarusian athletes will now no longer be able to compete at this year’s Winter Paralympics after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) reversed their original decision. The IPC were criticised after they originally stated that Russia could compete under a neutral flag, […]
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Team GB has real medal hopes in the final days of the Games Thirty years ago, when the Premier League was just kicking off and the Gallagher brothers were just a couple of young upstarts making a name on the Manchester scene, Team GB returned home from the Winter Olympics empty-handed. The team didn’t secure […]
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Should’ve used Google maps Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber had a moment to forget in the Nordic Combined large hill/10km event on Monday after he blew a 44-second lead… by going the wrong way. Riiber had only returned to action the same day after recently spending two weeks in isolation after testing positive for covid-19 – […]
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport reversed the decision to suspend the 15-year-old Kamila Valieva has been told that she will be allowed to continue to compete at the Beijing Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that “exceptional circumstances” meant the 15-year-old should not be suspended. CAS released a statement […]
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Every four years, it grows in popularity – so why does the internet go crazy for curling? What is curling? In layman’s terms, the World Curling Federation defines curling as a “team sport, played on ice, where two teams take it in turns to slide stones made of granite towards a target – known as […]
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Max Parrot won gold in the snowboard slopestyle event – just three years after being diagnosed with cancer Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot won gold in the snowboard Slopestyle event in Beijing on Monday – just three years after he was diagnosed with cancer. Parrot was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma towards the end of 2018, but after […]
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