What's happening this weekend in the world of winter sports?
The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 may be over, but there is still plenty of exhilarating winter sports action going on around the globe as World Cup action continues this weekend!
Michela Moioli Sport News
Milano-Cortina 2026: Italy's sports greats look forward to 'Olympics of the Future'
As Beijing 2022 hands over the Olympic flag to Milano-Cortina 2026, Italian sporting heroes are looking forward to staging the greatest Winter multi-sport event on earth at home.
JUEGOS DE INVIERNO Oro para los 'viejos rockeros' del snow: suman 76 años
«Nunca es demasiado tarde para conseguir lo que quieres de la vida y alcanzar tus sueños. Te defraudas a ti mismo si renuncias demasiado pronto. No importa la edad que tengas. Somos los orgullosos bebés de los 80», afirmaba Nick Baumgartner, que a sus 40 años es el representante más veterano de la delegación estadounidense. Y si ya era ejemplo para los jóvenes, su actuación en Pekín demuestra que la edad es únicamente un número en un documento. Algo parecido ocurre con su compañera del equipo mixto de EE UU en el snowboard cross la flamante campeona olímpica de la especialidad en categoría individual Lindsey Jacobellis.
Olympics-Snowboarding-Old is gold, Americans say experience counts at Games
By Mari Saito and Winni Zhou
Snowboarding-Old is gold, Americans say experience counts at Games
ZHANGJIAKOU, China : Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner have been competing with athletes half their age in the team snowboarding cross event at the Beijing Games but the U.S. veterans proved nothing beats experience by winning gold in a nail-biting final.
"We're embracing oldies for goldies" - USA veterans Baumgartner and Jacobellis delight in mixed team snowboard cross title
It may have been a brand new Winter Olympic event, but youth was no match for experience in the mixed team snowboard cross, as a United States pair with a combined age of 76 triumphed.
Snowboarding-Second gold for Jacobellis as US veterans win cross mixed team event
ZHANGJIAKOU, China :The United States won gold in the inaugural snowboard cross mixed team event at the Beijing Games on Saturday, with Lindsey Jacobellis edging past Italian Michela Moioli in a nail-biting final race.