Club World Cup 2022: Fixture dates, UK kick-off times, full match schedule, teams venues for tournament
Thomas Tuchel will lead Chelsea into another cup competition in February.
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China upset rivals Japan in tense ice hockey shootout, US best Swiss
BEIJING: China ended Japan's unbeaten streak in the Olympic women's ice hockey tournament on Sunday (Feb 6), upsetting their rivals 2-1 in a tense shootout win, while the United States locked up a routine win over Switzerland.
Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi Holds Nerve To Win Ski Jumping Gold
Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi held his nerve while his rivals lost theirs on Sunday, winning Olympic ski jumping gold on the men's normal hill in a wild and unpredictable Beijing Games final. Germany's World Cup leader Karl Geiger finished 15th in a disastrous performance, while hotly tipped Norwegians Halvor Egner Granerud and Marius Lindvik were also well out of contention. Kobayashi kept his cool to become the first Japanese ski jumper to win Olympic gold on foreign snow, pulling off jumps of 104.5 and 99.5 metres to finish first on 275.0 points. "This season I've been able to jump to the image I have in my mind," said the 25-year-old, who is second in the current World Cup standings and won this season's Four Hills competition.
Pin-badge diplomacy warms Sino-US relations on Beijing ice
BEIJING: The strained relations between the governments of China and the United States in the run-up to the Winter Olympics have not been reflected on the curling rink in Beijing where the camaraderie has been a lot warmer than the ice underfoot.
Andy Murray looks set to skip Roland Garros - and the entire clay court season - in bid to stave off injury
Andy Murray is not planning on playing on clay this year — including at Roland Garros — as he tries to manage his physical condition. Murray exited the Australian Open meekly in January at the hands of Japan's Taro Daniel, and has chosen not to enter 2022's next Grand Slam, instead planning to give himself the best possible chance going into Wimbledon and the grass court season. Ad/> Murray is currently in the Netherlands preparing for the Rotterdam Open, where he has received a wildcard.
Ski Jumping-Kobayashi wins men's normal hill gold for Japan
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi kept his nerve to deliver a solid last leap of the competition and win the Olympic men's normal hill ski jumping gold on Sunday.
Winter Olympics - Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi produces dominant performance to claim gold in men’s normal hill.
Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi lived up to sky-high expectations by producing a dominant performance to claim gold in the men's normal hill event at Beijing 2022. Kobayashi held a big lead after a near-perfect jump in the first round and then did enough with his second effort to hold off Austria's Manuel Fettner for the gold. Kobayashi finished with 275.0 points ahead of Fettner in second with 270.8.
