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Elin Schagerström the Queen of Lenzerheide

  • FISU Section Pages

Elin Schagerström, a 23-year-old student at Luleå University of Technology, was the biggest star at the 2024 FISU World University Championship Ski Orienteering by winning the gold medal in the sprint, the pursuit, the middle distance and the sprint relay together with Jonatan Ståhl!

 While athletes from nations such as Japan and China made huge technical and tactical strides over


Several tasks completed during the Zagreb Open

  • Wrestling

The Zagreb Open was the first major tournament of Olympic wrestling in 2024. Athletes came to Croatia to complete various tasks at the beginning of the Olympic year.

 With these three gold medals, Ukraine overtook China to win the team event in women's freestyle


Pre-Olympic hockey tournaments kick off in three different countries

  • Olympics

Hockey's final ticket to Paris 2024 will take place in three different countries from 13 January. Spain will host one men's and one women's group, while Oman and India will host the remaining qualifying matches.

The five women's teams that have already qualified are Australia, the Netherlands, China, Argentina,

 In the women's competition, the qualified teams are Australia, the Netherlands, China, Argentina

 In Muscat we have Chile, Great Britain, China, Pakistan, Malaysia, Germany, Canada and New Zealand


Former Chinese football coach admits bribery and match-fixing

  • Football

Li Tie, the former Everton player and coach of the Chinese national football team, has been under investigation for "serious violations of the law". He'd been under suspicion until last Tuesday, when he confessed in a documentary aired by state broadcaster CCTV.

GETTY IMAGESLi Tie resigned from his post after China failed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

 Li was in charge of Hebei China Fortune and Wuhan Zall, the team he was coaching when he allegedly


FBPR appoints General Manager, Edwin Rodriguez heading to Premier 12

  • Baseball and Softball Section Pages

Baseball agent Edwin Rodriguez has been designated by the Puerto Rican Baseball Federation (FBPR) as general manager of the national team for Premier 12.

The competition will be played in two groups of six teams each in Taipei, China, and America, while Japan


Vietnamese taekwondo in focus for Olympic qualifiers

  • Taekwondo

The Vietnamese taekwondo team has been on a long journey of training and competition to get in shape for one of the most important competitions of the year - the Paris 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournament, reports Lao Dong.

nbsp;The team will then return to Vietnam to focus on the Olympic qualifiers, which will be held in China


Indian Olympic Association appoints Raghuram Iyer as CEO

  • Olympics

Iyer takes up the role after a thorough selection process by the IOA Nominating Committee, having previously served as Chief Executive Officer of teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Indian Super League (ISL).

If successful, India will become the fourth Asian country to host the Games, along with China, Japan


Olympic year kicks off with key qualifiers

  • Olympics

January 2024 begins with a flurry of sporting activity in the run-up to Paris 2024. The thirty-third Olympic Games of the modern era, with more than 10,000 athletes, will begin in the Paris region on 26 July.

Australia, Netherlands, India, Argentina, and South Africa) and five women's teams (Australia, Netherlands, China

celebrate their win at the men's final hockey match between India and Japan during the 2022 Asian Games in China


International Hockey Federation celebrates its centenary

  • Hockey

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) celebrates its centenary on 7 January in Lausanne, Switzerland, although the sport has a much longer history, with Olympic participation dating back to London 1908.

the latest format, Hockey5s, was added to the programme at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China


WFDF 2023 Asia Oceanic Team Disc Golf Championships concludes with Taiwan on top

  • World Flying Disc Federation

The last tournament of 2023 and the first tournament of 2024 concluded with the local team from Taiwan clinching the title at the WFDF 2023 Asia Oceanic Team Disc Golf Championships.

end of the WFDF 2023 Asia Oceanic Team Disc Golf Championships held in Chinese Taipei, Republic of China

/t.co/RDEQyXJ2Ia pic.twitter.com/4qE5TA4NvI— WFDF (@WorldFlyingDisc) January 2, 2024In addition to China


Steady growth for baseball and softball on social media

  • Baseball and Softball

2023 was a significant year for the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) in terms of tournaments played and the power gained through new technology and social media.

by 13% in 2023 to exceed 110,000.Japan's Miu Goto, in the softball women's final between Japan and China


Flying Disc: Olympic Games are part of our strategic plan

  • The Big Read

WFDF President, American Robert "Nob" Rauch, sat down for an exclusive interview with InsideTheGames to talk about the success of 2023 and his future goals, including being an Olympian at the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane. 

January 2024, with 43 players, 75 participants, five countries (Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Thialand and China


Yargelis Savigne, Olympic bronze 15 years on

  • Olympics

The Cuban triple jumper has received the bronze medal she was due at Beijing 2008 after it emerged that her rivals who overtook her had done so illegally, using banned substances.

Yargelis Savigne after it was discovered that two athletes who outperformed her at the Olympic Games in China

disqualified them after confirming the use of banned substances and cheating to reach the Olympic podium in China


February to April: Three months to qualify for Paris 2024 in taekwondo

  • Taekwondo

December was an important month for the World Taekwondo, as six athletes from each of the eight weight categories booked their places for Paris 2024.

quotas to the NOCs on 11 January, but the Olympic rankings will not change until then Turkey and China

Sofia, Bulgaria, will host the European Qualifiers from 8-10 March.A week after that, Tai'an City in China