By Nick ButlerPoland made swift amends for the embarrassment of a record defeat at the International

The European side conceded a record 15 times against South Korea yesterday but bounced back well today

round-robin style tournament on Saturday (March 21), meaning it is likely to be a gold medal match in all

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win to stay top of Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships B-PoolMarch 2015: Sweden record opening day

triumph at home ice sledge hockey championshipsMarch 2015: Medals unveiled for IPC Ice Sledge Hockey

By Michael PavittInternational Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey World Championship B-Pool hosts Sweden enjoyed a fine start in front of their home fans in Östersund, as they earned a dominant victory over Poland.

into an early 3-0 advantage after the first period, with Niklas Rakos, Rasmus Lundgren and Peter Ojala all

in quick succession, and before the first period was over Peter Stit fired into the British net to all

be promoted to Pool-A for 2017 ©Getty ImagesThe Slovakian side showed no mercy, scoring three more times

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Would Button have just swept past them in the qualifying stakes if he had, after all, decided to give

switch of sports ultimately proved unsuccessful ©AFP/Getty ImagesA total of 82 athletes have won Olympic medals

athletes who have successfully switched in more recent years, Canadian Clara Hughes won two bronze medals

Although a strong time for an average person, for someone who won seven times what's generally seen as

Lance Armstrong proved good, but still 40 minutes off world record pace, when he focused on marathon

By Michael PavittBritain's Lizzy Yarnold has completed a career Grand Slam after winning skeleton gold at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) World Championships in Winterberg, Germany.

fastest time.As a consequence Yarnold's lead increased to 0.49 and as the Briton had set the fastest times

looked likely to let her lead slip.She duly sealed the world title in style, breaking her own track record

crowd with silver ©Bongarts/Getty Images"It has been a lot of hard work and it's been a struggle at times

It's all I ever wanted."

track that saw her become German champion earlier this year.Canada's Vathje was able to round off the medals

By Mike RowbottomHistory favours the hosts as the German track at Winterberg prepares to hold the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation's (FIBT) World Championships for the fourth time from tomorrow until March 8. But history may yet be made by three Olympic champions from Great Britain, Russia and Canada - respectively Lizzy Yarnold, Alexander Tretiakov and Kaillie Humphries - if their outstanding form holds over the next fortnight.Every competition held during the three previous Championships at this unique Bobbahn venue has resulted in a gold medal for Germany - and in the most recent hosting, 2003, in gold, silver and...

initially competed for East Germany, is one of only two competitors to have won World Championship gold medals

Axel Jungk.Tretiakov, meanwhile, will enter competition with the knowledge that he holds the course record

since Jill Bakken's win in 2001.But Humphries, who has been working hard in a Munich training camp all

But for us it is all about the trajectory towards 2018 [Pyeongchang Olympics] and the World Championships

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By Emily GoddardLouis Martin, Great Britain's most successful weightlifter and former British Weight Lifting President, has died at the age of 78.

The Jamaican-born athlete, who represented his birth country at the 1958 Commonwealth Games, won medals

bronze at Rome 1960 and silver at Tokyo 1964.Martin also won the World Weight Lifting Championships four times

between 1959 and 1965, was a double world record holder, four-time European champion and a three-time

Louis had an exceptional record over a decade which is unlikely to be surpassed in the future."

and was an inspiration for an entire generation of British weightlifters and will be sadly missed by all

By Mike RowbottomThe film critics have not been universally kind to Unbroken, Angelina Jolie's World War Two epic, which has recently opened in the United States and United Kingdom. It will not matter. Millions will watch this largely faithful, entirely well-meaning take on the extraordinary life of 1936 Olympian Louis Silvie "Louie" Zamperini, who died on July 2 this year aged 97.It is a measure of Zamperini's life that being an Olympian was one of the lesser parts of it. The main features, so far as Unbroken is concerned, are his subsequent War exploits, which include ditching into the Pacific...

Zamperini set an interscholastic mile world record of 4min 21.20sec which stood for 20 years, winning

including co-favourite Norm Bright collapse, Zamperini produced a sprint finish to tie with the US record

And all the food was free.

Zamperini's room-mates during those Games was the sprinter and long jumper who left them with four gold medals

 and the Los Angeles Times, and he was given a hero's welcome upon his return stateside."

SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, but compatriot Artem Ivanov stole the headlines in a world record

"It demands complete concentration at all times, the slightest mistake and you might be punished," said

event.Action will also conclude in chess, Go and xiangqi, with Russia looking to extend their lead on the medals

By Philip BarkerThe International Olympic Committee's (IOC) 127th Session will be the third time the Olympic family has gathered in Monaco, the smallest member of the Olympic Movement to host a full meeting of the IOC. This "Extraordinary" session at the Grimaldi Forum is for members to vote on President Thomas Bach's blueprint for the Olympic Movement  "Agenda 2020". Now, though, the troubled trail towards the Winter Olympics of 2022 seems certain to cast a long shadow. Stockholm were the first to withdraw followed by the Polish city of Krakow and Lviv in Ukraine. Oslo went through to the Candidate...

In those days, all IOC members were asked to pay a subscription.

He was the first member ever to be expelled from the IOC, a record he held until the 2002 Winter Olympic

Most controversial of all, Palestine was also given provisional membership.

"Times are changing.

When a drugs violation has been proved, the medals will be redistributed in a much more public ceremony

its way to genteel marginalisation in a world it once dominated.Yes, Britain's Sydney 2000 Olympic medals

the mind-boggling cultural transition such a move implies.UK Olympic bids prior to London 2012 were all

I remember being surprised when someone I slightly knew took me aside and told me, very much on the record

not because I get a kick out of Britannia ascendant; I really don't.But I think as islanders, it is all

serve as IAAF President, Lord Burghley.Hmm, I wonder...David Owen worked for 20 years for the Financial Times

After narrowly missing out on the medals at Muscat 2010 and Haiyang 2012, she won a superb silver this

Competing against older people there was not a challenge because I knew them all anyway.

It's been a fun journey and I am improving all the time."

We want her to train only six times a week but she often tries to on the seventh as well."

French star Clementine Lucine and 18-year-old tricks world record holder from the United States, Erika

He had all the moves and did himself and his country proud.

minute documentary filmed on four continents, featured footage of China's multiple champion and world record

That has all changed.

session and every contest on the path to the Olympic podium.Om Yun-Chol, who lifted more than three times

I will protect my gold medals."

"It would be great for our sport, and great for all sport."

By Brian Oliver at the Baluan Sholak Sports Palace in AlmatyThe awesome Tatiana Kashirina of Russia set five world records on her way to victory in the women's super-heavyweight category on another remarkable day at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships here.

Pulsabsakul of Thailand, and beat three of her 11 rivals by 100kg or more.In a great day for Russia they won all

total, with his team mate Alexey Lovchev taking the clean-and-jerk gold despite having failed with all

three snatch attempts.The spread of medals on the final day left North Korea top of the medals table

140kg, which would have been enough for gold, Kashirina went in at 145kg, then broke her own world record

lifting 155kg.That huge lead meant the contest was over already - the only question was, how many more times

By Daniel EtchellsCanada's three-time Paralympic medallist Josh Dueck has announced his retirement from Alpine skiing.

The 33-year-old won gold and silver medals at Sochi 2014, adding to the silver he won at Vancouver 2010

, and as a spokesperson in sharing his story with so many audiences, Josh is truly a role model for all

The life of a ski racer is extremely fun, totally exhilarating and pretty scary at times," Dueck wrote

list for adventurer of the yearAugust 2010: Canadian Paralympic medallist sets sights on new world record

tweet issued by British Olympian 1500 metres runner Andy Baddeley, and re-tweeted by world marathon record

Medals, moments and money are STOLEN from clean athletes.

systematically since the beginning of the 1970s.The 800-page "Doping in Germany from 1950 to today" - not all

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