International Surfing Association (ISA) President Fernando Aguerre has described the potential for Para surfing to make its Paralympic debut at Los Angeles 2028 as a "match made in heaven".

Los Angeles is set to host the Paralympic Games for the first time in 2028, with New York City in the United

States and Stoke Mandeville in Britain staging separate competitions when the Californian city held

The top qualifiers Andri Ragettli and Tess Ledeux triumphed in the men's and women's slopestyle finals respectively at the Freeski World Cup in Font Romeu.

place, and moved him top of the slopestyle standings for the season on 114 points, three clear of the United

States' Alex Hall who did not compete in the French resort.Barclay has 102 points for the season, just

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) trio of Ivan Golubkov, Vladislav Lekomtsev and Vera Khlyzova were winners again in biathlon on the fourth day of the World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer to take their second golds in the sport.

finishing in a time of 36:44.7.Natalia Kocherova of the RPC took the silver and Oksana Masters of the United

States claimed the bronze.Liudmyla Liashenko was the top Ukrainian in the women's standing middle race

Kim Kalicki was crowned European champion and Elana Meyers Taylor sealed the overall title during the final two-woman race of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup season in Swiss city St Moritz.

themselves in winning position but a fourth-fastest second run saw them drop outside the medal places.The United

States' Meyers Taylor, with Kaysha Love, came fifth but captured the overall title with 1505 points

Former overall crystal globe winner Federica Brignone won the super-G race in Zauchensee to record her second victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup season.

Brignone.Slovakia's Petra Vlhová was 18th and has cut the gap to overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin of the United

States to 37 points.Shiffrin skipped this weekend's action.Speed events are on the schedule again next

Shane Doan has been appointed general manager of Canada's men's ice hockey team for next month's Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, with Claude Julien head coach.

Germany in their first Beijing 2022 match on February 10 at the Wukesong Arena.Hosts China and the United

States are also in the Canada's group.The men's tournament is due to conclude on February 20, the final

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has formally selected its first athletes for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, mixed doubles curlers Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill.

Olympic champions Canada and world champions Scotland.Australia's campaign is due to begin against the United

States on February 2, two days before the Opening Ceremony.

The sporting year of 2022 seems destined to be defined by events which will bring both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA under intense scrutiny over their relationships with host nations.

Pressure groups have since then renewed calls for United Nations secretary general António Guterres to

that the Nazis persecuted opponents and victimised the Jewish population which prompted calls in the United

States and elsewhere for a boycott.Even earlier, sporting bodies had forged an enduring Faustian pact

said that Italian commentators were instructed not to mention the lack of spectators.Italy beat the United

States 7-1, defeated Spain after a replay and overcame Austria 1-0 in the semi-finals.Mussolini was

has criticised the politicisation of the Olympic Games as an increasing number of countries join a United

States-led diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022.

Reigning world and Olympic champion Chloe Kim won the women’s snowboard halfpipe final at Laax in Switzerland on her return to the World Cup circuit.

Mountain.Second place went to Jan Scherrer of Switzerland with a score of 90.00, while Shaun White of the United

States, a three-time Olympic men’s halfpipe champion, finished in third place on 84.00.In the overall

Netherlands, who sits on 126 points.The men’s snowboard slopestyle was won by Sean Fitzsimons of the United

States with a score of 80.91.Sochi 2014 silver medallist Ståale Stanbech was close behind in second

France's Tess Ledeux comfortably topped women's slopestyle qualification at her home Freeski World Cup in Font Romeu, with the season's frontrunners absent.

Sildaru has won both slopestyle World Cups so far this season, but is not competing in Font Romeu.The United

States' Maggie Voisin, Britain's Kirsty Muir and overall World Cup leader Eileen Gu of China are also

International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup in the two-man bobsleigh while the United

States' Elana Meyers Taylor finished as champion of the women's Monobob World Series in St.

Alphonso Davies is set to miss three upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers for Canada due to signs of mild myocarditis after contracting COVID-19.

Soccer confirmed that Davies will miss the away match at Honduras and the home fixture against the United

States at the end of January, as well as the trip to El Salvador in February.His club team - German

Brandon Lowery, who played a pivotal part in Olympic preparations for the nation, has been named the new interim chief executive of USA Surfing, taking over temporarily from the outgoing Greg Cruse.

Carissa Moore became the United States' first Olympic gold medallist in surfing ©Getty ImagesLowery is

Nine of the 18 surfers on the women's World Surf League Championship Tour are from the United States,

Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami secured her second win of the season - and first since recovering from contracting COVID-19 - as she claimed victory in today's downhill at the Alpine Ski World Cup in Zauchensee.

Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States, who opted to skip the World Cup at Zauchensee, remains the overall