A total of 93 athletes across the men's and women's downhill divisions will get the inaugural International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Junior World Ski Championships underway in Panorama in Canada.

How bent is boxing? Those who watched the recent BBC Panorama programme, graphically headlined Boxing and the Mob must have thought the old noble art - if it was ever thus - was being dragged back into the dark days, like those across the Atlantic from the 20s into the mid-60s, when the fight game was run and ruled by Mafioso characters whose surnames invariably ended in vowels.

Czech Republic’s Patrik Hetmer, who won giant slalom bronze at this year’s International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing World Championships in Panorama, Canada, has revealed he is aiming to qualify for the marathon at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.