Conor Swail back on top in California
Ireland's top-ranked show jumping rider Conor Swail continued his excellent run of form by claiming victory in Sunday’s three-star $138,600 Grand Prix in California.
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Snowboarding-Canada's 'caged tiger' Parrot soars to gold, Su wins silver
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Max Parrot of Canada made a stunning comeback from cancer to win snowboarding slopestyle gold at the Beijing Olympics on Monday, carving out a smooth line and landing signature jumps with ease as Chinese teenager Su Yiming took silver.
Olympic wake-up call: Max Parrot is golden on the slopes
Three years ago, Max Parrot was laying in a hospital bed "with no energy, no muscles, no cardio" undergoing chemotherapy to fight Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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The Winter Olympics is in full swing in Beijing with Team GB hoping to win a record medal tally.
Canada-ROC Olympic women's hockey game in Beijing starts late, with masks
BEIJING — Canada's 6-1 win over Russia in Olympic women's hockey Monday featured the strange visual of players on both teams wearing masks under their cages after a delayed puck drop.
Beijing Olympics hockey players wear Covid face masks during match
ice hockey players wore medical face masks on Monday during their Beijing Winter Games match, which also started an hour late, in a bizarre chapter for the Games. Canada ran out 6-1 winners and their player Natalie Spooner said afterwards that the game had been delayed because their opponents had not got their results back from morning testing for Covid. The Russians were on the ice for the scheduled start time but their opponents at Wukesong Sports Centre were not initially there for their Group A showdown.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Johan Clarey dedicates silver to friend and colleague after claiming first Olympic medal at 41
Downhill veteran Johan Clarey has dedicated his silver medal to his friend and former colleague David Poisson. Poisson, a French Alpine ski racer, passed away in 2017 after an accident in training. Ad/> And as 41-year-old Clarey became the oldest medal winner in Olympic Alpine skiing history, he paid tribute to Poisson.
Ireen Wust becomes first athlete to strike individual gold at FIVE Olympics at Beijing 2022
Ireen Wust became the first Summer or Winter Olympian in history to win an individual gold medal at five separate Games with a stunning triumph in the women’s 1500m speed skating event. She clocked an Olympic record of 1:23.58 on her way to glory.