Mikaela Shiffrin became the first skier to win the same event at four successive International Ski Federation Alpine World Ski Championships by triumphing in the women’s slalom at Åre in Sweden.
Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecká triumphed on her return to the International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Snowboard World Cup in the first of back-to-back parallel giant slalom races at Phoenix Park in Pyeongchang.
International University Sports Federation (FISU) President Oleg Matytsin has expressed confidence in organisers prior to the Winter Universiade and suggested Krasnoyarsk 2019 will leave a strong legacy.
Samoa 2019 have been boosted by a sponsorship agreement reached with McDonald's for the upcoming Pacific Games.
Top seeds Australia and New Zealand continued their perfect start to the Oceania Mixed Team Badminton Championships in Melbourne.
Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) President Tsunekazu Takeda is facing pressure to step aside from the role over allegations of corruption, it is claimed.
Yuto Totsuka backed up his performance in qualification by taking the gold medal in the men’s halfpipe event at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard World Cup in Calgary today.
World champion Elana Meyers Taylor secured the gold medal in front of her home crowd at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup event in Lake Placid.
Britain’s Laura Muir will be among the home hopes as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Tour continues tomorrow in Birmingham.
Canada is set to host the World Junior Curling Championships for the first time since 2009 with competition beginning tomorrow in Liverpool.
Poland triumphed in the men’s team competition at the International Ski Federation Ski Jumping World Cup in Willingen.
Spain’s Sandra Sanchez booked her place in the women’s kata final on the opening day of the Karate 1-Premier League event in Dubai.
Martin Wolfram delivered home success on the first day of medal action at the International Swimming Federation Diving Grand Prix in Rostock.
Switzerland’s Christopher Stewart was crowned European champion after winning the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation Para Sport World Cup in St Moritz.
Reigning Olympic slopestyle gold medallist Jamie Anderson is among several athletes to have criticised International Ski Federation (FIS) President Gian-Franco Kasper following controversial comments made in a newspaper interview.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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The European Youth Olympic Festival is underway in Sarajevo and East Sarajevo and exciting new young talent is sure to catch the eye. But, for every Ester Ledecká who emerges, there will be plenty of others for whom this will be the pinnacle of their careers. Mike Rowbottom asks whether we are asking too much, too young from some athletes.
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