Eileen Gu's China choice pays off... for now
BEIJING: When Eileen Gu won Olympic gold in the Big Air, sales of her red Anta ski suit, complete with slipdrag reduction technology, surged 20-fold on Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com.
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Champions League returns: What to look out for in 2021-22 knockout stages
A clean sweep of English teams but no Barcelona. No away goals either.
Liverpool 'to face Manchester United and Crystal Palace' in pre-season
Liverpool are set to face Crystal Palace and rivals Manchester United in pre-season friendlies held in the Far East, according to reports.
Winter Olympics 2022: ‘Completely unreal’ - Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron stunned after ice dance gold
French figure skaters Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron were stunned after they completed their path from a wardrobe malfunction in Pyeongchang to become Winter Olympic ice dance champions in Beijing. The four-time world champions wowed judges to break their own world record from 2019 with a total score of 226.98 with a beautiful free dance routine to Elegie by Gabriel Faure. Papadakis and Cizeron scored 136.15 to conclude their competition to beat Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov of the Russian Olympic Committee by more than six points.
Libya faces challenge of two prime ministers
We also head to Nigeria, where authorities are urging thousands of internally displaced people to go back home. The government says the security situation in Borno state has sufficiently improved to allow them to close a refugee camp in Maiduguri. But some reports show a different picture, with many areas in the state still not secure.
Jackman: Losing bonus point could prove crucial
RTÉ rugby analyst Bernard Jackman says the losing bonus point Ireland claimed in Paris could yet prove crucial in the final analysis and reckons this may have been factored into the team's thinking when they took the contentious decision to take three points rather kick for the corner when trailing by six late in the game.
Lucile Lefevre rocks tiger onesie to honour Chinese new year in snowboard slopestyle qualifying at Winter Olympics
Lucile Lefevre bowed out of the snowboard slopestyle competition in style after donning a tiger onesie for her qualifying runs. The French star took an injury in her stride at the Winter Olympics, and did not let that disappointment prevent her from entertaining the crowd at Beijing 2022. Ad/> Wearing a tiger outfit, tail and all, Lefevre put in a, ahem, grrrreat display with a wise costume choice given it is now the year of the tiger in the Chinese calendar.