Two-time Olympic champion Yang Yang has warned that athletes are "responsible" for what they say in press conferences and interviews at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games here.

Games to nations with poor records on human rights.At last year's re-arranged Olympic Games in Tokyo, United

States shot-putter Raven Saunders briefly held her arms above her head in the shape of an X after accepting

The United States Olympic Committee defended Saunders' gesture stating that it did not breach its rules

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet will not attend at the Winter Olympics here after testing positive for coronavirus, it has been announced.

Estanguet attended Tokyo 2020 but will not be at Beijing 2022 ©Getty ImagesSeveral nations have joined an United

States-led diplomatic boycott of the Games, citing concerns over China’s human rights record.France

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been warned attending a dinner with tennis player Peng Shuai during the Beijing 2022 would be an "inappropriate move", with the organisation urged to ensure there is a transparent investigation into her allegations of sexual assault.

promises free and open access to the internet and social media for all participants.For journalists, it states

Nations including Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, New Zealand and the United

States have opted not to send Government officials to the Games.The diplomatic boycott has largely come

official state newspaper China Daily also claimed last week to have spoken to sources that claimed the United

States have sought to "entice" athletes to create disturbances at Beijing 2022 to politicise the Games

Games in biggest city Los Angeles, is sending more athletes to Beijing 2022 than any other state in the United

States.

The Women's Under-19 World Floorball Championship, originally scheduled to take place in New Zealand from May 4 to 8, has been postponed and is expected to be rescheduled in September - but in another country.

coronavirus pandemic.Men's World Floorball Championship qualification tournaments in Europe and the United

States have also been postponed.The second and third European qualifying groups were scheduled to take

French Sports Minister Roxana Mărăcineanu will travel here for 2022 Winter Olympics, although the date of her visit has not yet been announced.

boycott of Beijing 2022 and he will be represented by Sports Minister Roxana Mărăcineanu ©Getty ImagesThe United

States was among the first nations to declare it would stage a diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022, citing

straight Men's Pan American Cup title with victory over Chile in the final in Santiago as Canada beat the United

States to claim the last available place at next year's Hockey World Cup.

Claude Julien has been replaced by Jeremy Colliton as head coach of Canada’s men’s Olympic ice hockey team at Beijing 2022 after fracturing his ribs at a training camp in Switzerland.

travel to the Chinese capital, where they are scheduled to play a pre-Winter Olympics match against the United

States on February 7 at the National Indoor Stadium.Canada, the nine-time Olympic champions, will face

Olympic bronze medallists and reigning world champions Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Nico Porteous have been named as part of New Zealand’s 15-member squad for Beijing 2022.

There will be no New Zealand Government officials here for the Games after joining the United States-led

Jim Forbes, a member of the United States basketball team controversially defeated at the 1972 Olympic

added to the game clock, resulting in the Soviet Union being declared champions and gold medallists.The United

States defeat to the Soviet Union at Munich 1972 was the first time they had not won the Olympic basketball

Asian champion Yoon Hyun-ji was one of three South Korean winners on the final day of the Portugal Grand, while Olympic bronze medallist Jorge Fonseca earned a second gold of the event for the host nation.

Smith III of the United States securing the second against Azerbaijan's Adil Karimli.The Netherlands'

France made it back-to-back team women's sabre victories at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) World Cup in Plovdiv.

Florence Robine (@frobine) January 30, 2022Azerbaijan's route to the final featured 45-39 wins against the United

States and Hungary and a 45-32 victory against Bulgaria.The host nation missed out on a medal after

Germany's Jessica Degenhardt and Cheyenne Rosenthal made history in Winterberg by becoming the first-ever women's doubles luge world champions. 

Romanenko and Pauline Patz were 0.558 back in second place, while Chevonne Forgan and Sophia Kirkby of the United

States completed the podium.Germany claimed three gold medals at in the Junior World Championships.The

Olympic gold medallists Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan of Ireland have been named World Rowing Men's Crew of the Year while China's champion quadruple sculls line-up won the women's title at the 2021 World Rowing Awards.

Sydney 2000 and bronze at Rio 2016 in the double sculls competition.Peter and Dick Dreissigacker of the United

States win the Distinguished Service to International Rowing award.The brothers are said to have "transformed

There was a spot of good news for British curling shortly before the 2006 Winter Olympics - and it was only 82 years late.

doubt about who became the first gold medallist at a Winter Olympic Games.That distinction fell to United

States speed skater Charles Jewtraw, who - to his own considerable surprise - claimed victory in the

He had never competed over 500 metres before as the equivalent distance in the sprint in the United States

Charles Jewtraw of the United States becomes the first Winter Olympic Games champion at Chamonix in 1924