Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White to retire after Beijing Games
Snowboard great Shaun White has confirmed he will retire after Beijing 2022.
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Winter Olympics: Katie Ormerod misses out on snowboard slopestyle final
British snowboarder Katie Ormerod missed out on a place in the women's slopestyle final as she made her long-awaited Olympic debut.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Greg Rutherford reflects on 'incredible experience' representing Team GB in 'brutal' bobsleigh
Greg Rutherford says it was an «incredible experience» representing Great Britain as a bobsleigher after missing out on the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The 2012 London Olympic champion came out of retirement last year in an attempt to qualify for the Winter Games. Ad/> The 35-year-old came back from a shoulder injury last month to make his official bobsleigh debut in driver Lamin Deen's sled in January, but the team failed to achieve the qualifying standard of three top-12 World Cup finishes this season, which meant Rutherford would not be competing in Beijing.
Winter Olympics - Opinion: Sofia Goggia’s return could end up being story of the Games in Beijing
“Chills” That was the mood Sofia Goggia was feeling when she was back on skis for the first time in a little under a fortnight. Ad/> The Italian star posted the message to her Instagram on Friday, the post that all of her fans, and the Alpine skiing community at large, had been waiting for. Next stop? The Olympic Games.
Winter Olympics - ‘Chills!’ – Olympic champion Sofia Goggia back on skis less than two weeks after Cortina crash
Olympic Downhill champion Sofia Goggia has confirmed that she is back on skis less than two weeks after a horrible crash in Cortina. Goggia, who won Olympic gold four years ago in Pyeongchang has been in excellent over the past two seasons and was looking like one of the favourites for gold in Beijing. Ad/> Goggia gave the Italian fans a scare when she tumbled down the mountain in the Super-G at Cortina and ended up spraining her left knee as well as partially tearing a cruciate ligament and suffering a minor fracture of the fibula bone in the leg.
Ex-McLaren F1 sporting chief Sam Michael to head FIA Safety Commission
The Safety Commission looks at accidents and safety equipment issues in all forms of four-wheel-based motorsport, and its most high profile recent investigation involved Romain Grosjean’s crash at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix.
Rochdale council leader dismisses government's Levelling Up plan as an 'uninspiring jumble' of reheated policies
Rochdale council leader Neil Emmott has dismissed the government’s ‘Levelling Up’ announcement as a ‘jumble of reheated policies’.