Canadian curler Lisa Weagle named chef de mission for 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
World champion curler Lisa Weagle will be Canada's chef de mission at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in a place where she became an Olympian herself.
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Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships: Eva Adamczykova, Jakob Dusek win snowboard cross gold
Eva Adamczykova soared to a sensational gold at the snowboard cross World Championships in Bakuriani following a challenging year. The 29-year-old from the Czech Republic reclaimed the title she last won in 2019 after breaking both of her ankles just two months out from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics last year. Ad Australia's Josie Baff pipped Olympic champion Lindsey Jacobellis to silver whilst France's Manon Petit Lenoir fell short for fourth.
Adamczykova and Dusek grab snowboard cross world gold
Eva Adamczykova soared to a sensational gold at the snowboard cross World Championships in Bakuriani following a challenging year. The 29-year-old from the Czech Republic reclaimed the title she last won in 2019 after breaking both of her ankles just two months out from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics last year. Ad Australia's Josie Baff pipped Olympic champion Lindsey Jacobellis to silver whilst France's Manon Petit Lenoir fell short for fourth.
What to know for the long track speed skating world championships
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German Olympic committee says time not right to readmit Russians
MUNICH, Germany: Germany’s National Olympic Committee is opposed to letting Russian and Belarusian athletes compete internationally, the body’s chief executive said on its web site on Tuesday. “Now is not the right time to allow athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport to compete in international competitions again,” Torsten Burmester said in an interview conducted just after the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “The acts of war have intensified in recent weeks, especially the attacks on the civilian population.” The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is led by a German, Thomas Bach, has said it is exploring a “pathway” to allow Russian and Belarusian competitors to take part in the Paris Games, under a neutral flag.
China's peace plan: Russia says no conditions for 'peaceful' solution for Ukraine 'for now'
The Kremlin said on Monday that China's peace plan for Ukraine deserved to be studied in detail, but claimed the conditions for a "peaceful" solution had not been met "for now".
At the Canada Games, 2 Isabelles showed Canada's Olympic spirit
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British teenager Brookes becomes the youngest world champion
Britain's Mia Brookes outclassed Olympic gold medallist Zoi Sadowski-Synnott to become the youngest snowboarding world champion on Monday (Feb 27), when the 16-year-old won the woman's slopestyle title in Bakuriani, Georgia.