France's Tess Ledeux and the United States' Colby Stevenson have claimed their first slopestyle International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski World Cup titles at the final competition of the season in Silvaplana in Switzerland.
Sofia Nadyrshina and Iaroslav Stepanko won the mixed team parallel giant slalom snowboard gold medal as the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski Junior World Championships in Krasnoyarsk concluded with yet more Russian success.
It was another golden day for Russia at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski Junior World Championships in Krasnoyarsk, with Daria Melchakova, Vsevolod Martynov and Sofia Nadyrshina all victorious.
Switzerland's Mathilde Gremaud topped women's qualification at the final leg of the slopestyle International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski World Cup in Silvaplana.
The United States' Colby Stevenson and France's Tess Ledeux head into the final leg of the 2020-2021 slopestyle season in the lead with both looking to win their first International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle Ski World Cup titles in the discipline.
Russian Ksenia Orlova and Czech Republic’s Matěj Švancer claimed their second gold medals of this year’s Freestyle Ski Junior World Championships after winning the respective women’s and men’s freeski Big Air competitions in Krasnoyarsk.
Viktoriia Lazarenko, representing the Russian Ski Federation, won gold in the dual moguls at the Freestyle Ski Junior World Championships in Krasnoyarsk, with Japan’s Haruka Nakao taking silver.
Russia’s Ksenia Orlova and the Czech Republic's Matej Svancer won respective women's and men's freeski slopestyle gold at the Freestyle Ski Junior World Championships in Krasnoyarsk, having topped the previous day’s qualifying.
American Colby Stevenson secured his first International Ski Federation Freestyle World Cup victory in more than four years by winning the slopestyle event in Aspen.
The Russian Ski Federation's (RSF) Ksenia Orlova and the Czech Republic's Matej Svancer finished top of qualifying in the women's and men's freeski slopestyle, respectively, at the Freestyle Ski Junior World Championships in Krasnoyarsk in Russia.
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.
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.
Oliwer Magnusson and Tess Ledeux topped freeski Big Air qualifying at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Aspen in the United States.
Olympic silver medallist Matt Graham secured the men’s overall International Ski Federation (FIS) Moguls World Cup title after the final leg of the season was cancelled due to bad weather.
Chinese teenage sensation Eileen Gu claimed her second gold medal of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Aspen after victory in the women’s ski slopestyle.
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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