Seventeen-year-old Dusty Henricksen was among six winners on the final day of the Winter X Games, adding the snowboard slopestyle title to the knuckle huck gold medal he had already won in Aspen.
Double Youth Olympic Games champion Eileen Gu has become the first Chinese athlete to win a gold medal at the X Games, winning the women's ski superpipe contest in Aspen.
X Games Aspen 2021 is set to get underway in Colorado in the United States, with the action taking place behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Two-time Olympic gold medallist Jamie Anderson clinched victory in the women’s slopestyle at the International Ski Federation Snowboard World Cup in Laax, while Swede Niklas Mattsson triumphed for the first time in the men’s contest.
Olympic champion Jamie Anderson posted the highest score in the women’s slopestyle semi-finals at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard World Cup in Laax.
Olympic champion Chloe Kim will return to competitive action in the upcoming season after being named in the US Snowboard team.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
Commonwealth Games Federation - Sport Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is the international governing body that oversees the quadrennial Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Youth Games. The CGF is a small passionate team, wholeheartedly committed to its vision, mission and values. Based in our central London headquarters and reporting to the CGF’s Sports Director, this role will play a key role within the team, providing operational and strategic support across all areas of the sport programme, including bespoke projects and events.
Tributes from across sport have been paid following the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99. Philip Barker recalls the Prince's deep connection to sport and his influence on it.
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