Speed skating-Belgian Swings wins gold in men's mass start
BEIJING : Bart Swings of Belgium won gold in the men's speed skating mass start at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday.
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UCI chief, Fourcade boost French IOC presence, India lands 2023 session
BEIJING : International Cycling Union (UCI) President David Lappartient and fellow Frenchman Martin Fourcade became International Olympic Committee (IOC) members on Saturday, boosting French membership to four ahead of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
Cross-country skiing: Russian Bolshunov wins Olympic men's mass start race, shortened by weather
ZHANGJIAKOU, China: Alexander Bolshunov of the Russian Olympic Committee blazed his way to a third Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Games, winning the men's 50km title in a gruelling race postponed by an hour and shortened to 30km due to high winds on Saturday.
Cross-country skiing-Stomach bug skewers Klaebo's last chance at gold
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : A stomach complaint prompted Norwegian skier Johannes Klaebo to cut short his final attempt at winning gold in the men's 50 km freestyle mass start on Saturday at the Beijing Games, ending an otherwise successful Olympics on a sour note.
Speed skating-Second tumble ends defending champion Takagi's Olympic dream
BEIJING : Defending champion Nana Takagi crashed out at the semifinal of the women's mass start speedskating on Saturday, falling on the same corner that she slipped on at the women's team pursuit final at the Beijing Olympics.
U.S. figure skaters file appeal to get team medals before Beijing Olympics end
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Attorneys for the U.S. figure skaters whose Olympic silver medals are being withheld have notified the IOC that they have filed an appeal to have them awarded before the end of the Beijing Games, The Associated Press has learned.
IOC members unanimously vote in India’s favour to host 2023 Olympic session
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, it will host another one again in 2023 in Mumbai. International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Nita Ambani, on Saturday, made a presentation on the same to the IOC members in Beijing and the assembly unanimously voted in India’s favour to host the next ‘session’. An Olympic Session is the general meeting of the members of the IOC and it's supreme organ. All IOC Session decisions are final. The IOC has a total of 101 members with voting rights, who attend the sessions. The Indian delegation, led by Ms Ambani, also included Indian Olympic Association (IOC) president Narinder Batra, Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and India’s first individual Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra. “It’s a great moment of pride for India as this Olympic session will inspire a youth-heavy population of the country to adapt to a vibrant sporting culture,” say those who were tracking developments.
What does having the hammer mean in curling and how do you get it? The rules explained
There are three curling medal events at Beijing 2022