Canada's Boutin, Dubois both win short track gold at World Cup stop in Netherlands
Short track stars Kim Boutin and Steven Dubois both struck gold as Canada hauled in four medals at a World Cup speed skating event in the Netherlands on Saturday.
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Blondin, Weidemann, Maltais win team pursuit gold at speed skating World Cup
The Canadian women's speed skating team remained undefeated in team pursuit on the World Cup circuit, racing to gold Saturday in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland.
Lewandowski has brought winning mentality to Barca — Xavi
BARCELONA, Spain: Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez hailed striker Robert Lewandowski for helping change the mindset at the club. The Catalans are eight points clear of rivals Real Madrid at the top of La Liga and beat Los Blancos in Saudi Arabia to win the Spanish Super Cup in January.
Moscow says calls to ban Russian athletes from Olympics 'unacceptable'
MOSCOW: Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Saturday (Feb 11) that calls from ministers of more than 30 countries to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics were unacceptable, TASS news agency reported.
Russian, Belarusian dissidents could compete in Olympics as refugees, says Polish sports minister
WARSAW : Creating a team of refugees which would allow some Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete could be the basis of a compromise on the question of banning these countries from the games, the Polish sports minister said on Friday.
Zelensky to address sports ministers over IOC’s Russia plan
LONDON: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was expected Friday to denounce the potential participation of Russian athletes at next year’s Paris Olympics, during a virtual summit of sports ministers chaired from London. Zelensky, who visited London on Wednesday, will make an opening address via video link, where he is set to repeat his opposition to the participation of the athletes in the wake of Russia’s invasion of his country, Britain’s Press Association reported.
Poland’s plummeting birth rate: why are women thinking twice about motherhood?
It is another quiet shift for Ewa Dadalska, head of a maternity ward in the Polish city of Wołomin.
Ireland fifth in women's team pursuit qualifying at European Championships
Ireland got their UEC Track European Championships at Grenchen in Switzerland under way on Wednesday, with Alice Sharpe, Lara Gillespie, Kelly Murphy and Mia Griffin finishing in fifth place in the women's team pursuit qualifying.