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Double racing again as IBSF women’s monobob tour reaches La Plagne

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

La Plagne will play host this weekend to the penultimate event in the season’s women’s monobob competition, which is due to make its Olympic debut at Beijing in 2022.

scheduled to conclude where it began, in Lake Placid, on April 3.As with the previous stop in Park City, United

States last month, La Plagne will feature races on successive days.Karlien Sleper of The Netherlands


McMorris seeking to break White’s X Games medal record in Norway

  • Non-Olympic Sports

Canada's Mark McMorris will seek to make sporting history at the Winter X Games that start in Norway’s Hafjell Resort tomorrow by beating the record of 18 winter discipline medals he currently shares with Shaun White.

back-to-back Olympic gold medallist Jamie Anderson, who won the women's snowboard slopestyle for the United

States in Aspen, is back against the two rivals who took silver and bronze behind her - Canada's Laurie

Japan's Kokomo Murase respectively.Colby Stevenson, who won the men's ski slopestyle title for the United

States in Aspen, will be hoping to repeat the trick on Sunday against a field that includes Aspen bronze

States, who took bronze behind winner Kelly Sildaru of Estonia and Switzerland’s Olympic slopestyle



Downhill skiers first to go at FIS Junior World Championships in Narvik

  • Alpine Skiing

A total of around 600 athletes will be involved in the Alpine Junior Ski Championships at Narvik in Norway, where full competition will start tomorrow.

/t.co/YwOpGMdGFq— Ski Austria Alpin Herren (@SkiAustria_Men) March 5, 2020They were followed by the United

States, on two golds and two silvers, and Norway, with one gold, three silvers and a bronze.


Double points and overall titles up for grabs at ISU Speed Skating World Cup final

  • Speed Skating

Overall titles will be at stake when the International Skating Union Speed Skating World Cup season concludes in Heerenveen in The Netherlands.

contention in the 1,000m distance as she sits second on the overall standings behind Brittany Bowe of the United

States, who will hope to end her recent run of disappointing results.Skaters from the Netherlands will


FIG World Cup in Doha to held behind closed doors and athletes subject to travel restrictions

  • Gymnastics

This month's International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) World Cup in Doha in Qatar will go ahead, but it is to be held behind closed doors due to coronavirus fears.

way of earning an Olympic berth.Earlier this week, Russian gymnasts pulled out of World Cups in the United

States and Japan because of concerns over COVID-19.The All-Around World Cup in Tokyo, which begins on


FIS announces cancellation of Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup season finale in Špindlerův Mlýn

  • Snowboard

The last slopestyle event of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard World Cup season, due to take place in Špindlerův Mlýn later this month, has been cancelled due to restrictions imposed by the Czech Government over concerns regarding coronavirus.

the men’s standings with 1,616.40 points, with New Zealand’s Tiarn Collins second on 1,340 and the United

States' Dusty Henricksen third on 1,290.In the women’s standings, Britain’s Katie Ormerod leads the


Blitzboks on a high as World Rugby Sevens Series arrives in Vancouver

  • Rugby Sevens

South Africa, winners of the last World Rugby Sevens Series event, will seek to close the gap even further on overall leaders New Zealand in Vancouver this weekend as the sixth of the 10 scheduled Sevens Series events takes place.

are drawn in Pool C and will face Ireland, Spain and Kenya, while Pool D consists of Australia, the United

States, Samoa and Scotland.Play will be split across two days, with all pool games taking place tomorrow


Coronavirus finally cancels Asian Weightlifting Championships

  • Weightlifting

of coronavirus, with the Asian Championships in April cancelled and a qualifying competition in the United

States this weekend taking place behind closed doors.

been closed for weeks and travel between cities is restricted.The Rogue Weightlifting Challenge in the United

States, which forms part of The Arnold multi-sport festival in Columbus of Ohio, goes ahead as planned


Paris to host opening leg of FINA Artistic Swimming World Series

  • Artistic Swimming

French capital Paris is set to host the season-opener of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Artistic Swimming World Series, with competition beginning tomorrow.

 Athletes from Spain, Ukraine, France, Greece and the United States are expected to impress, but

in Greece, Hungarian capital Budapest, Kazan in Russia, Spainish capital Madrid and Rochester in the United

States.



Canadian hopefuls prepared for Pan American Championships test ahead of Olympic qualifier

  • Wrestling

Canada’s Amar Dhesi and Jasmit Phulka will seek to impress in front of a home crowd at the Pan American Wrestling Championships, with the four-day event set to begin tomorrow in Ottawa.

s wrestling events at the continental event.The hosts will expect to face competition from a strong United

States’ team in women’s competitions.United States' Adeline Gray is among the international stars set


Los Angeles Marathon to go ahead as planned despite coronavirus fears

  • Athletics

Organisers of this weekend's Los Angeles Marathon have announced that the race will go ahead as planned, despite fears over the coronavirus outbreak.

now been more than 96,000 cases of coronavirus around the world, and more than 3,300 deaths.In the United

States, 160 people have been infected while 11 have died.Some schools in the country have been closed


National Collegiate Athletic Association form coronavirus advisory panel

  • Universiade

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has formed a coronavirus advisory panel to keep its members updated on the outbreak.

Hainline will lead the coronavirus advisory panel ©NCAA"We are actively monitoring COVID-19 in the United

States and will make recommendations on competition based on the evolving medical protocols established

than 96,000 cases of coronavirus, or COVID-19, around the world, and more than 3,300 deaths.In the United

States, 160 people have been infected while 11 have died.