Winter Olympics
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Anaïs Caradeux likes a challenge. After spending her childhood in Guadeloupe, she moved to the Alps, took up skiing and took on a hazardous Olympic sport
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Sochi has been stripped of next year’s bobsleigh and skeleton world championships in the wake of the second McLaren report into state-sponsored doping in Russia
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After the damning second part of Richard McLaren’s report into Russia’s state doping programme, what now for world sport
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Vitaly Mutko, the Russian deputy prime minister and former sports minister, has admitted: ‘The IOC has now decided to retest all the samples; let them retest’
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The IOC statement about Richard McLaren’s report referred to a ‘fundamental attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games’ but it contained no contrition or apology
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The sprinter hopes to win medals at both winter and summer Olympics, while James Dasaolu and Perri Shakes-Drayon are among those to lose their funding from British Athletics
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Drugs scandals and Rio’s haphazard preparations have dominated the headlines but the most worrying sign for Thomas Bach and co has barely been reported – does anyone really want to host the Games any more?
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In the latest in his series of great moments in Australian sport, David Squires looks at the speed skater’s famous win at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, warned the Olympic movement could ‘wind up on the edge of schism’ after damning report on state-sponsored Russian doping
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Russia could be banned from competing at the Rio Olympics after a damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency lifted the lid on a state-sponsored doping cover-up
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A devastating and damning report into Russian sport has found that the country’s government, security services and sporting authorities colluded to hide widespread doping across ‘a vast majority’ of winter and summer sports
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A report by an independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency confirms evidence of widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian athletes at the Sochi Olympics
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Russian doctors and athletes worked together to evade drug tests at the Sochi Olympics, passing containers of urine through a hole in the wall to replace tainted samples, the New York Times has reported
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Wada has opened an investigation into allegations of Russian doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
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When learning to ski in the Italian Alps, Michael ‘Eddie the Eagle’ Edwards had no idea it would lead to Olympic stardom – or a new Hollywood biopic
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Taron Egerton stars as the bespectacled Olympian in this weirdly mythologised, heavily fictionalised story of Team GB’s only ski-jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics
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As a new biopic reassesses the legacy of Britain’s most famous ski jumper, Michael Edwards talks about the slippery slope to the Olympics, snobbery in the skiing world and how he went from earning £65,000 a day to bankruptcy
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New Zealand teenage sensation Lydia Ko is in the spotlight at the year’s first LPGA major, Real seek revenge and Eddie the Eagle flies again
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Australian actor will also produce film about Harding’s 1994 battle with rival Nancy Kerrigan, which attracted some of the highest US TV viewing figures in Winter Olympics history
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The Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, opened on Friday. We round up the best pictures from the opening weekend
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Skier who upset his European rivals and became a household name in the US as the first American to win an Olympic gold in alpine skiing
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Household names and raft of youngsters are enjoying huge success in skiing and sliding this winter – and it bodes well for Pyeongchang in 2018
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Winter Olympic gold is the target for Britain’s brightest snowboarder, Katie Ormerod, who is still the only woman to complete the backside double-cork 1080
Nathan Chen tops Olympic champion to take lead at Four Continents