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Alpine skiing: Picassos, slip crew ensure tip-top slopes

February 14, 2013 15:31
Thousands watch live or on television when Ted Ligety or Lindsey Vonn race down icy slopes at over 100kph, but without perfect courses -- and the preparation that goes into that -- there can be no competition. Gone are the days when champions like Toni Sailer or Jean-Claude Killy bumped along irregular courses in top-level competitions.

Olympics: Wrestling out of Olympic programme for 2020 - IOC

February 12, 2013 09:30
Wrestling, an Olympic sport since the first Games in ancient Greece, looks set to be dropped, after the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday voted to remove it from the programme for 2020. The decision, taken by the 15 members of the IOC executive board in Lausanne, Switzerland, leaves the sport grappling against seven other disciplines for inclusion at the Games, the location of which will be decided later this year. "It's a real shock. Wrestling was not on the radar," an IOC source told AFP.

Alpine skiing: World Ski Championships 2013 race schedule

February 3, 2013 10:30
The race schedule for the February 4-17 World Ski Championships (all times GMT): Feb 4: opening ceremony Feb 5: super-G, women 1000 Feb 6: super-G, men 1000; downhill training, women 1230 Feb 7: downhill training, men 0900; downhill training, women 1130 Feb 8: super combined, women 0900, 1330; downhill training, men 1130 Feb 9: downhill, men 1000; downhill training, women 1230 Feb 10: downhill, women 1000; super combined downhill training, men 1230 Feb 11: super combined, men 1100, 1715 Feb 12: team event, 1600

Gymnastics: Spanish coach suspended over 'bad treatment'

February 2, 2013 16:45
Spain's artistic gymnastics coach, Jesus Carballo Garcia, has been suspended following allegations from a former gymnast over "bad treatment" when she was under his guidance during the 1980s. The decision was taken after an investigation carried out by the Superior Council of Sports (CSD), ruled that Garcia would be refused entry to the team's training centre after an unnamed gymnast went to the Spanish authorities with her complaints.

Skeleton: Britain's Rudman races to skeleton world title

February 1, 2013 23:30
Shelley Rudman became the first British woman to win the skeleton world title on Friday, when she raced to a convincing victory at St Moritz, Switzerland, ahead of Noelle Pikus-Pace of the USA and Canada's Sarah Reid. The 31-year-old, Wiltshire native set the pace with two blistering heats before comfortably protecting her lead in the third and fourth runs to finish 0.57secs ahead of 2007 world champion, Pikus-Pace while Reid was a distant 1.41secs adrift.

Snowboarding linked to injury rate rise on slopes: study

January 20, 2013 20:31
Jan 21 (Reuters) - Allowing snowboarders to hit the slopes at one U.S. ski resort led to a small rise in the number of overall injuries, a trend in line with findings at ski areas elsewhere, according to a U.S. report. Injuries rose by 13 percent in the two years after snowboarders were permitted at the Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico, compared to the two years before, according to the report in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Badminton-Malaysia's Nadzmi confirms running for BWF top post

January 17, 2013 03:15
Jan 17 (Reuters) - Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) President Nadzmi Mohd Salleh has confirmed he will run for the top job at the sport's world governing body at its May elections. Current Badminton World Federation (BWF) President Kang Young-joong of South Korea said last month he would step down from the role in May after eight years at the helm. China head coach Li Yongbo recently declared his support for Nadzmi while Indonesian Justian Suhandinata has already made clear his intentions to run for the post.

Bobsleigh-Pickering swaps track for ice in shot at Winter Games

January 11, 2013 08:15
LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Former British sprinter Craig Pickering is set to make his bobsleigh debut on Saturday as he starts his bid to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Pickering will compete as a brakeman in the two-man bob at the World Cup in Konigssee, Germany having pushed a bobsleigh on ice for the first time this week. The 26-year-old missed the London Olympics last year following back surgery and has switched his attention to bobsleigh after losing his UK Athletics funding in October.
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