Luge Canada hires Poland's Maciej Kurowski as head coach leading to 2030 Winter Olympics
Three-time Polish Olympian Maciej Kurowski has been named the Canadian luge team's new head coach through to the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in the French Alps.
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2030 Olympics will be 1st Winter Games with gender parity, IOC says
The International Olympic Committee says it will have gender parity at a Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 2030.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says IOC Russia decision 'troubling', wants restrictions upheld
July 7 : Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denounced as "troubling" on Tuesday the International Olympic Committee's decision to lift the Russian Olympic Committee's suspension and urged both countries and international sports bodies to maintain restrictions on Russian participation and use of state symbols.
Ukrainian face of Games Heraskevych urges coalition against Russia’s Olympic return
July 7 : Skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, the Ukrainian face of the Milano Cortina Games after his helmet controversy, called on Tuesday for a coalition of national Olympic committees to oppose the IOC’s provisional lifting of Russia’s suspension and said visa bans and boycott talks should be on the table.
IOC axes Nordic combined for 2030 Games, retains snowboard parallel giant slalom
July 7 : The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday dropped Nordic combined from the 2030 French Alps Winter Games, ending the Olympic run of a discipline that had featured in every edition since the inaugural winter cycle in 1924.
IOC lifts Russia suspension, athletes to return to international competitions
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 7 : The International Olympic Committee provisionally lifted its suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee on Tuesday, marking a significant step towards Russia's reintegration into the Olympic fold ahead of the Los Angeles 2028 Games.
IOC axes Nordic combined for 2030 French Alps Games
July 7 : The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday dropped Nordic combined from the 2030 French Alps Winter Games, ending the Olympic run of a discipline that had featured in every edition since the inaugural winter cycle in 1924.
Evan Dunfee says Canadian film 'Racewalkers' is in on the joke, 'not the butt of the joke'
A reigning world champion in race walking is teaching a cast of Hollywood stars to walk the walk for the Olympic sport at the heart of a new Canadian comedy.