Soccer-France bids for 2025 women’s Euros
PARIS (Reuters) - France announced on Thursday that it was bidding to host the 2025 European Women’s Championship, formally entering a crowded field to secure the tournament.
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Winter Olympics: Eve Muirhead backs Scottish curlers to win three medals in Beijing, with Edinburgh's Bruce Mouat collecting two of them
At tomorrow's opening ceremony, Muirhead will be the second curler to carry the flag after Rhona Martin was given the honour at the closing ceremony in 2002 and opening in 2006.
France bids for 2025 women’s Euros
PARIS : France announced on Thursday that it was bidding to host the 2025 European Women’s Championship, formally entering a crowded field to secure the tournament.
Britain suffer first defeat, Italy lead mixed doubles standings
BEIJING: Reigning world curling champions Britain slipped to their first mixed doubles defeat against Switzerland at the National Aquatics Centre on Thursday (Feb 3), while Italy stormed to the top of the standings with a perfect start to their round-robin campaign.
Curling-Britain suffer first defeat, Italy lead mixed doubles standings
BEIJING :Reigning world curling champions Britain slipped to their first mixed doubles defeat against Switzerland at the National Aquatics Centre on Thursday, while Italy stormed to the top of the standings with a perfect start to their round-robin campaign.
Winter Olympics: Capital curlers Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds ready to fight fire with fire after falling to first defeat
The Edinburgh pair lived up to their billing as gold medal favourites by seeing off world bronze medallists Sweden and reigning Olympic champions Canada in their first two matches, but 2018 silver medallists Switzerland proved a step too far.
Tibetans march on IOC headquarters to protest Beijing Games
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Several hundred Tibetan and Uyghur activists marched on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday (Feb 3), a day before Beijing 2022 opens, accusing the Swiss-based organisation of complicity in "atrocities" committed against ethnic minorities in China.
Ice hockey-Czech's Krejci isolating after positive COVID test
BEIJING :The Czech Republic's David Krejci, one of the biggest names in the Olympic men's ice hockey tournament, tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing on Thursday.