Category: Olympic Winter Games

Winter Asian Games kick off with opening ceremony in Sapporo

The Asian Winter Games officially got underway Sunday with an opening ceremony that united winter athletes from the world’s most populous continent. With the Winter Olympics just a year and a short distance away in South Korea, the continent’s leading winter athletes will use the games to fine tune for Pyeongchang 2018.

IOCa s Bach welcomes talk on 2024 and 2028 Olympic hosts pick

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland – International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach welcomes talk that two Summer Games hosts could be picked at the same time in September. “I like it that people are talking in this way about the Olympic candidature procedure,” Bach told The Associated Press on Saturday, amid speculation Los Angeles and Paris could both get hosting rights for either the 2024 or 2028 Olympics.

Noteworthy

FEBRUARY 08: Lindsey Vonn visits the Eurosport studio in St Moritz for an interview by lead presenter and former Olympic triple-jump champion and world record holder, Jonathan Edwards on February 8, 2017 in St Moritz, Switzerland. ORG XMIT: 1000003361 less ST MORITZ, SWITZERLAND – FEBRUARY 08: Lindsey Vonn visits the Eurosport studio in St Moritz for an interview by lead presenter and former Olympic triple-jump champion and world record holder, Jonathan Edwards … more The marquee races for women and men should go back-to-back after Saturday’s men’s downhill was postponed due to fog, race organizers decided.

Brekkie Blog | Sunday, February 12, 2017

A west to southwest flow will strengthen today ahead of a cold front, which will cross Tasmania early Monday bringing a cooler southwesterly flow. A high in the Bight will extend a ridge to the north of Tasmania late on Monday and remain there on Tuesday as the high moves to the northwest of the state.

White mulls skateboarding at 2020 Games

In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, Shaun White, of the United States, looks at the scoreboard after competing in the men’s snowboard halfpipe final at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The

Well done, Tigress! Good luck, ice stars

THEY fought like true tigresses to reach the final, but fell to a better-organised team that was more focused on winning. But even by emerging second best in the second round of the Women’s Hockey World League competition last week, our girls did the country proud.

Germany’s top Olympic official proposes banning Russia from Games

The president of the German Olympic Committee has called for Russia to be banned from the 2018 and 2020 Olympics if sports bosses there are found to have known about state-sponsored doping. The president of the German Olympic Committee has called for Russia to be banned from the 2018 and 2020 Olympics if sports bosses there are found to have known about state-sponsored doping.

Gut remains perfect in super-G; Vonn struggles in 9th

Defending overall World Cup champion Lara Gut extended her perfect run in super-G this season with a comfortable win Sunday while Lindsey Vonn struggled to a ninth-place finish. For her third straight super-G victory, Swiss skier Gut finished 0.67 seconds ahead of Stephanie Venier of Austria and 0.86 in front of Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Olympic champion Stoch wins final stop, takes 4 Hills title

Poland’s Kamil Stoch celebrates after winning the fourth and last stage of the Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Poland’s Kamil Stoch, bottom, who won the overall competition, and his teammate Piotr Zyla celebrate after the fourth and last stage of the Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017.

US ski team: Lindsey Vonn could return to WCup next week

In this Feb. 20, 2016, file photo, Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, celebrates after placing second at a women’s Alpine ski downhill race in La Thuile, Italy. The Alpine director of the U.S. ski team says Vonn could make her World Cup return in Austria next week, two months after undergoing surgery on a broken arm.

Mikaela Shiffrin closes in on ski racing milestones

If Mikaela Shiffrin wins her 27th World Cup race in Tuesday’s slalom, she will match the career achievement of one of the biggest names in American ski racing history – Phil Mahre. She would also match the women’s record of eight consecutive World Cup slaloms wins – and draw level with Swedish skiing great Ingemar Stenmark for the number of victories before turning 22 years old.

Skier Jean Vuarnet, who struck gold with tuck position, dies

Olympic skiing champion Jean Vuarnet, who helped pioneer the aerodynamic tuck position for downhill racers but suffered tragedy with the deaths of his wife and son in a doomsday cult murder-suicide, has died, the French Olympic Committee announced Monday. He was 83. The Frenchman won Olympic gold in the downhill at the 1960 winter games in Squaw Valley, California.

Sports federations face obstacles in sanctioning Russian athletes

Sports federations face obstacles in sanctioning Russian athletes Sports federations could spend months if not years pursuing anti-doping rule violations Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2hqgx0g In announcing the final revealing details of Russian state-sponsored doping in a report earlier this month, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren was clear on his mandate – investigating Russian doping but not adjudicating it. The Herculean task of doing that now falls to the international federations , who could spend months if not years pursuing anti-doping rule violations against the hundreds of athletes involved in the Russian state-sponsored system.