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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

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"

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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…

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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 Independent UK

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.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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.

Sports Illustrated

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 Independent UK

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.

ABC News

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.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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

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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…

Reuters

Greek court acquits activists over 2021 protest against Beijing Olympics

A Greek court has acquitted three activists detained in October 2021 after unfurling banners at the Athens Acropolis opposing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, their lawyer and activists said on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on why we’re paying a high price to host the World Cup

There is little evidence to back up claims that international sporting events do anything to discourage human rights abuses

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The Conversation

In a year of sporting mega-events, the Brisbane Olympics can learn a lot from the ones that fail their host cities

In a year of major sporting events – the Commonwealth Games, the FIFA World Cup, cricket’s T20 World Cup, the Winter Olympics – conversations on greening such events are more essential than ever. While the Brisbane Olympics are a decade away, lessons from events like these need to be applied…

Daily Mirror

Eve Muirhead announces retirement after skippering Team GB to Winter Olympics gold

At the age of 32, curling great Eve Muirhead has decided to announce her retirement from the sport after achieving "everything she dreamt of" including winning Olympic gold in Beijing earlier this year

The Independent UK

Adele Nicoll hoping to complete unique double at Commonwealth Games

The Welsh shot putter was part of the Great Britain bobsleigh team at the Winter Olympics

Daily Mirror

Kamila Valieva saga at Winter Olympics forces figure skating rule change

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, 15, is still under investigation after failing a doping test in an explosive saga which tainted the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

The Independent UK

Sapporo rejects holding referendum over bidding for Olympics

Japan’s northern city of Sapporo has rejected holding a referendum to give voters a choice over bidding for the 2030 Winter Olympics

Tribune News Service

Lessons learned from an analyst’s journey into COVID-Zero China

Wenting Shen usually travels to China annually as part of her job as an analyst and portfolio manager at investment company Harding Loevner, but the country’s strict “COVID Zero” policies and this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing made it almost impossible to book a flight.

Daily Record

Inspiring Perthshire people named on Queen's Birthday Honours list led by curling legend Eve Muirhead

The Perthshire skip, honoured with an OBE, and Olympic team-mate Mili Smith, awarded an MBE, were joined by many other delighted recipients

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