Nordic skiers will have their final chance to compete before the World Para Nordic Skiing Championships at the World Cup event this weekend in Östersund.
Paralympic champion Oksana Masters won two national titles at the 2019 US Paralympics Nordic Nationals in Vermont.
A new Para-skiing event debuted today at the Vuokatti Nordic World Cup in Finland, with Benjamin Daviet taking the first gold in biathlon class start.
Oleksandra Kononova secured her second biathlon gold at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti.
Norway’s 17-year-old Vilda Nilsen earned her third cross-country gold medal in three races at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland on a day of sprint events.
Ukraine celebrated double gold on the first day of biathlon competition at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland.
Canada’s Brian McKeever maintained his unbeaten run in the vision impaired cross-country short race on the second day of competition at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland.
Norway had a golden double on the opening day of the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland as Birgit Skarstein and Vilde Nilsen both earned victories on a day of middle-distance cross-country racing.
The Para Nordic skiing season will get underway tomorrow with a World Cup event in the Finnish resort of Vuokatti.
Retail company Canadian Tire has been named as the official partner of the 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships which will take place in the Canadian city of Prince George in February.
A competition for Nordic skiers with intellectual impairments will be held in collaboration with World Para Nordic Skiing and the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) in December.
Paralympic cross-country skier Birgit Skarstein has helped share her expertise with Chinese athletes preparing for their home Games at Beijing 2022.
Ukrainian Para Nordic skier Natalia Rubanovska has been stripped of three World Cup medals and given a two-year suspension after she tested positive for a banned substance.
Fraser the Moose has been revealed as the mascot for the 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships as organisers unveiled the design of medals for next year’s event.
South Korea's Para ice hockey star Jung Seung-hwan is switching to Nordic skiing after helping his country win a bronze medal at this year's Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, it has been revealed.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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The coronavrius pandemic has had a profound impact on sport, but many elite athletes have also made their impact felt during the health crisis, working on the medical frontline and in some cases sacrificing their chances of sporting success for the good of public health. Mike Rowbottom reports.
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