Norway’s Sturla Holm Lægreid defeated title rival and compatriot Johannes Thingnes Bø in the men’s 12.5-kilometre pursuit event to set up a grandstand finish to this season’s Biathlon World Cup in Östersund in Sweden.
Eva Samková and Alessandro Hämmerle won the season-ending Snowboard Cross World Cup legs in Veysonnaz to win the overall titles.
France’s Alexis Pinturault claimed the men’s overall International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup crown with giant slalom victory in Lenzerheide, while Slovakian Petra Vlhová captured the women’s crystal globe.
Nizhny Tagil will host the penultimate event of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup season.
Canada’s Brendan Mackay and New Zealand’s Nico Porteous led qualification to the men’s halfpipe final at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Freeski and Snowboard World Cup in Aspen.
Training and the provisional competition round for the International Ski Federation (FIS) Nordic Combined World Cup in Klingenthal in Germany have been cancelled due to bad weather.
Italy's Lukas Hofer earned his first Biathlon World Cup victory for more than seven years as Sturla Holm Lægreid of Norway reduced the deficit to compatriot Johannes Thingnes Bø in the race for the overall title in Östersund.
Japan's Rikuto Watanabe and Belgium's Evy Poppe have been crowned snowboard slopestyle world champions after day two of competition at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard Junior World Championships in Krasnoyarsk in Russia.
World champions Norway triumphed in the team parallel event as action finally began at the Alpine Ski World Cup finals following the weather-enforced cancellation of the opening two days in Lenzerheide.
Crystal globes will be on the line when the International Ski Federation's Snowboard Cross World Cup season reaches its conclusion in Veysonnaz tomorrow.
Olympic and world champion Chloe Kim topped the women’s halfpipe qualification standings at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard World Cup in Aspen.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will mark the last involvement of U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s Tiger Shaw in his current position as President and chief executive.
Home athletes completed a golden double on the opening day of the 2021 FIS Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski Junior World Championships in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Norway's Johannes Thingnes Bø and Sturla Holm Lægreid are set to battle it out for the men's overall Biathlon World Cup title at the final event of the season in Östersund this weekend.
Vincent Kriechmayr of Austria has clinched the overall super-G title after racing at the Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in Lenzerheide was cancelled for a second consecutive day due to bad weather.
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.
Commonwealth Games Federation - Sport Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the international governing body that oversees the quadrennial Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGF is a small passionate team, wholeheartedly committed to its vision, mission and values. Based in our central London headquarters and reporting to the CGF’s Sports Director, this role will play a key role within the team, providing operational and strategic support across all areas of the sport programme, including bespoke projects and events.
At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Spyridon Louis won the marathon to become an instant Greek hero. Mike Rowbottom tells the story of how a humble water carrier entered sporting folklore, 125 years on.
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