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Sapporo may delay Winter Games bid to 2034: Japan Olympic chief

Tokyo (AFP) - Japan could push its Winter Olympics bid back four years to 2034 after corruption scandals related to the Tokyo Games, the country's Olympic chief has warned.

AFP

Sapporo election could restart bid for 2030 Winter Olympics

Sapporo’s bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics has been slowed by fallout from the still-developing corruption scandal around the 2020 Tokyo Games

The Independent UK

Little sign of Olympics in Milan with only 3 years to go

There is little sign the Winter Olympics are coming to Milan in less than three years

The Independent UK

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Why does no one want to host the Winter Olympics?

Reports suggest that the IOC may be forced to consider fixed, rotating hosts with new interest slow

The Independent UK

Olympic champion 'could lose hands' after having both feet amputated due to pneumonia

Ice dancer Roman Kostomarov won a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, but after falling ill has now undergone surgery to have both feet amputated

Daily Mirror

Skier Elena Fanchini dies aged 37 after Winter Olympics ace had career ended by tumour

Skier Elena Fanchini, who represented Italy at three Winter Olympics and six World Championships, has died at the age of just 37 after her career was ended when she was diagnosed with a tumour

Daily Mirror

Skier with frozen penis at Winter Olympics makes spectacular comeback one year on

Flying Finn Remi Lindholm has found top form again one year on from suffering a frozen penis at the 2022 Winter Olympics, strutting his stuff en route to a 15km gold medal in Tampere

Daily Mirror

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Sweden mulling bid for 2030 Winter Olympics

Stockholm (AFP) - After losing out to Milan to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, Sweden is now considering a bid for the 2030 Games, the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) announced on Wednesday.

AFP

Matt Graham finds the right reason to ski after Beijing Winter Olympics heartbreak

Matt Graham's tears in Beijing exposed the brutal reality of top level sport. But despite last year's heartbreak, Graham knows he is still competing for the right reasons, and continuing to challenge for podiums on the World Cup circuit.

ABC News

Duncan Pugh dead: Winter Olympics star dies aged 48 after brain aneurysm

Olympian Duncan Pugh has tragically died at the age of 48 after suffering a brain aneurysm at his home in Perth, leaving wife McKenzie and their two sons "heartbroken and simply lost for words"

Daily Mirror

Inside Dancing On Ice star Christopher Dean's family life and past romances

It's often thought that the skating double act, who scooped gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics, are a couple, but they have actually never been an item.

Daily Record

Wada ‘concern’ as Rusada clears Valieva of wrongdoing over doping scandal

Kamila Valieva, whose positive doping test was the biggest story at the 2022 Winter Olympics, has been cleared by a Russian Anti-Doping Agency tribunal

The Guardian - UK

WADA says Russia found 'no fault' in Valieva doping case

The World Anti-Doping Agency says a Russian tribunal has found figure skater Kamila Valieva bore “no fault or negligence” in a doping case that rocked last year’s Winter Olympics

The Independent UK

Xi Jinping had as bad a year as Vladimir Putin and now China is paying the price

At the start of last year, when Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin for their most sensitive talks in Beijing, they had high hopes for 2022. The Russian president, Western intelligence believes, informed his host of his intentions to imminently attack Ukraine. Xi then asked Putin to wait until after the…

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

From Lionesses joy to Djokovic deportation, the best and worst of 2022 in sport

Matt Fitzpatrick and Ronnie O’Sullivan were also celebrating but Kamila Valieva’s Winter Olympics ordeal left a sour taste in the mouth.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Sapporo to review plans for 2030 Winter Games bid

Sapporo is reconsidering efforts to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, with the city's mayor citing scandals linked to the Tokyo Olympics as a reason for the rethink.

AFP

Sapporo suspends Olympic bid events over Tokyo Games scandal

Tokyo (AFP) - The Japanese city of Sapporo will stop promoting its 2030 Winter Olympics bid and hold a nationwide poll to gauge support after a corruption scandal over last year's Tokyo Games, local officials have announced.

Sports Illustrated

Looking Back on the Year of Sportswashing

Between the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in Qatar and the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, 2022 was the year of reputation laundering through sports.

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The Independent UK

From Lionesses joy to Djokovic deportation, the best and worst of 2022 in sport

Matt Fitzpatrick and Ronnie O’Sullivan were also celebrating but Kamila Valieva’s Winter Olympics ordeal left a sour taste in the mouth

AFP

Tokyo Olympics scandal makes Sapporo bid 'difficult': governor

Tokyo (AFP) - A corruption scandal surrounding last year's Tokyo Games has damaged Japan's bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, a top local official warned.

ABC News

From Rooty Hill and Moscow to the Winter Olympics, Harley and Katya made their mark in figure skating — but then it all fell apart

Harley Windsor and Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya's figure skating pairing provided one of Australia's most unlikely sporting stories — and one of its most tragic.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Hashimoto: Olympic scandals taking tall on Sapporo bid

The Sapporo bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics has been made very difficult by corruption and bid-rigging scandals involving the 2020 Tokyo Games, said House of Councillors lawmaker Seiko Hashimoto, who served as president of the Tokyo Games organizing committee.

Daily Record

Perthshire’s gold medal-winning Olympian Eve Muirhead joins local sporting body's board of directors

The Blair Atholl skip, who won gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics for Team GB, has linked up with Live Active Leisure

Daily Mirror

Female skier races with drawn-on beard in protest against Winter Olympics 2026 decision

Nordic combined has been part of the Olympic Games since 1924 but has never held a women's event and skiers protested the decision to exclude them from the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

The Conversation

FIFA World Cup: With climate change, will there still be a soccer World Cup in 2100?

Many major sports gatherings have been rocked by extreme weather events in recent years. A typhoon forced the postponement of several matches during the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. The air became unbreathable during the 2020 Australian Tennis Open because of bush fires. The Olympic Marathon was relocated further…

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