Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi has said Lausanne 2020 provided an opportunity to educate and empower young people, as the one-year anniversary of the Winter Youth Olympic Games was marked.
The Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games earned the accolade of "Best Winter Sports Competition 2019-2020" at the Winter Sports TOPS Awards in Beijing.
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) issued a one game suspension to two Swiss players for violent conduct during the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.
Organisers of the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympics have been sharing their operations expertise with their counterparts at Lucerne 2021, who are preparing to host the next Winter World University Games.
Lausanne 2020 has projected an operating surplus of CHF400,000 (£340,000/$422,000/€377,000) from this year's Winter Youth Olympic Games after revealing the financial results of the event.
Stadiums which hosted matches in the football tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are among the sports facilities set to be used to help the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have claimed that Lausanne 2020 received record digital coverage compared to the previous two editions of the Winter Youth Olympics.
Winter Youth Olympic Games champion Yuma Kagiyama leads the men's competition at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn.
A crowdfunding page has been set up to raise money to help the figure skater who suffered life threatening injuries in a fall in a dress rehearsal for the Opening Ceremony of last month's Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne.
Recent gold medallists at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games are set to compete at the International Skating Union Short Track World Junior Championships in the Italian town of Bormio.
Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Acting President Robin Mitchell has praised Lausanne 2020 for delivering an "outstanding" Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Virginie Faivre claimed dreams had "come true" at the Winter Youth Olympic Games and hoped Patrick Baumann would be proud of Lausanne 2020 as the event concluded here today.
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Russia sent a warning of the strength-in-depth in their junior ranks, easing to victory over the United States to secure the men's ice hockey gold medal at Lausanne 2020.
China's Eileen Gu held her nerve to secure victory in a thrilling women's freestyle skiing big air competition - and clinch her second Lausanne 2020 gold medal in Leysin.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
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As the International Ice Hockey Federation prepares to decide whether Belarus remains a co-host of its World Championship later this year, Philip Barker recalls other occasions where human rights has been a key topic in the build-up to a country staging a major sports event.
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