Xherdan Shaqiri Lyon exit six months after Liverpool move explained as fitness claim made
Former Liverpool winger Xherdan Shaqiri was not fit when he left the club for Lyon last summer.
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BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
Mikaela Shiffrin 'hasn't decided' on competing in downhill event despite 'very fast' practice run at Winter Olympics
Mikaela Shiffrin cut a confident figure during the first of three practice runs for the women’s downhill event, clocking the eighth-fastest time out of 45 skiers, but said she «hasn't decided» whether she will compete on Tuesday. The American’s Olympic campaign got off to a disastrous start in Beijing as she crashed out in her first two events but then managed a ninth-place finish in the super-G, after which she said “things were starting to line up again”.
Mikaela Shiffrin considers racing Beijing 2022 downhill after 'positive' training run
Mikaela Shiffrin said she "would love" to compete in the alpine skiing women's downhill event at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
Alpine skiing-Goggia delighted with first training run since crash
YANQING, China :The huge sigh of relief and broad smile at the finish line said it all.
Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff in painful crash during Winter Olympics team event
Belle Brockhoff has been cleared of serious injury after being tobogganed off the course having crashed during the mixed team snowboard cross event at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Lindsey Jacobellis pulls off board grab to win second Olympic gold, 16 years after showboat fail at Turin 2006
Sixteen years on from a showboat that would seemingly haunt her for the rest of her career, Lindsey Jacobellis pulled off the ultimate flex in what could well have been her final jump at an Olympics. Jacobellis’ name became synonymous with celebrating too early when she attempted a board grab in the dying moments of the women's snowboard cross big final at Turin 2006, a move which famously cost her gold as she fell in the final straight to gift Switzerland’s Tanja Frieden victory.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Great Britain jump two places in women's curling standings after ROC and Canada lose
Great Britain have jumped two places up the women’s curling standings in Beijing after the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and Canada both lost their round robin matches. GB sat in eighth out of the ten teams after their 9-7 loss to South Korea on Friday but other results from Saturday’s games have seen them rise to joint-sixth.