The past two weeks have been marked by the fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon, South Korea, an event organised by the International Olympic Committee, South Korea. Italy topped the medals table and Antonin Guy and Angel Daleman were crowned King and Queen of the event.

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champion in this discipline (Barbara Petzold at Lake Placid 1980), but in Gangwon they discovered a new

Finland (2): Great performance by Minja Korhonen (nordic combined), new Youth Olympic individual and

New Zealand (2): Luke Harrold (freestyle) won in the halfpipe and was third in the big air; Luci Georgialli

Czech Republic (1): Ilona Plekachova (biathlon) is the new 10 km individual champion and was third in

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-Oceania (2): No. 32 New Zealand and No. 10 Australia.

ninth-placed Czech Republic, 13th-placed Great Britain, Colombia (hosts), 23rd-placed Brazil, 32nd-placed New

Zealand, one team from the Americas and a one wild card.

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Ice hockey took centre stage on Day 12 at Gangwon 2024. Sweden defeated Japan 4-0 in the final and Germany took bronze after beating Switzerland 3-1 in the men's consolation final.

Finley Ives Melville from New Zealand took the silver medal with 92.50 points.

 Group C: New Zealand - China (4-12), Brazil - Turkey (5-10) and Japan - Latvia (6-5).

Germany added a cross-country skiing gold to their medal tally thanks to the performance of Jackob Elias Doche. This boosted their chances of overtaking Italy on the medal tally at Gangwon 2024, after a day without results for the Italians.

 Group C: Japan - New Zealand (11-2), Latvia - Brazil (6-3) and China - Turkey (13-4).

Elsa Taenglander and Kajsa Johansson in the women's competition and Federico Pozzi in the men's secured gold, silver and bronze in the most exciting events on Day 10 of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon. Korea triumphed in figure skating with a spectacular performance by Kim Hiyugyeon.

New Zealand's Yanhao Li took bronze (208.84) and Jacob Sanchez of the USA, who was leading after the

 Group C: Turkey - Japan (5-9), New Zealand - Latvia (4-9) and Brazil - China (3-10).Ice hockey

A brilliant performance by the Dutch in Muscat, Oman, saw them defeat India in the final to add another trophy to their impressive record which includes Olympic gold, senior and junior world titles, world indoor championship gold and the FIH Hockey Pro League title.

 Ukraine were too good for New Zealand in a 6-0 win to claim seventh place, with Karyna Leonova

(11-3), Thailand - Paraguay (5-3), Fiji - Australia (3-8), Namibia - United States (0-2), Ukraine - New

Zealand (6-0), Uruguay - Malaysia (8-4), Poland - South Africa (4-2), Netherlands - India (7-2).

  New Zealand.  United States.  Namibia.  Australia.

Charlie Beatty in freestyle skiing and Eli Bouchard in snowboarding secured two gold medals for the Canadian team on day nine at Gangwon 2024. They dominated Sunday's events. Italy tops the medal table with 10 golds after Flora Tabanelli's second win.

Luke Harrold (New Zealand) took the bronze medal with a score of 172.25.

snowboarding event, scoring 183.25 ahead of Oliver Martin (USA) on 179.50 and Campbell Melvilleives (New

Zealand) on 153.00.

She was followed by Rebecca Flynn (USA) with 153.00 and Lucia Georgalli (New Zealand), who once again

Zealand (6-3), Brazil - Japan (1-11) and Latvia - Czech Republic (5-8).

Day eight of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon produced just six medals, all in freestyle skiing, with the USA the most decorated country and Korea's Yoon Seung Lee the main star.

Finally, the Group C, also saw three games: New Zealand-Brazil (12-5), Latvia-Turkey (10-1) and China-Japan

In the women's competition, only Japan and New Zealand managed to qualify their two athletes, while in

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Italy tops the podium after another day at the Winter Youth Olympic Games. Great Britain's Carrick-Smith misses out on a second gold medal in alpine slalom, while Korea falls in curling but secures a place in the women's ice hockey final.

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 The silver medal went to Lucia Georgalli of New Zealand, who was close behind with 88.25 points

Following last week's pre-Olympic hockey tournaments in Spain, India and Oman, the groups have been drawn for the 12 teams of each gender to compete for gold at Paris 2024.

Group B is made up of Belgium, India, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and Ireland."

Rankings:Men:1 Netherlands2 Belgium3 India4 Germany5 England6 Australia7 Argentina8 Spain9 France10 New

KoreaWomen:1 Natherlands2 Australia3 Argentina4 Belgium5 Germany6 England7 Spain8 India9 Japan10 China11 New

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; São Paulo (Brazil); Edmonton, Vancouver (Canada); Frankfurt (Germany), Athens (Greece), Auckland (New

Zealand), Cape Town, Johannesburg (South Africa), Taipei (Taiwan), Liverpool, London (Great Britain)

A spectacular comeback in the combined slalom saw Carrick-Smith, who is coached by his mother, four-time Olympian Enma Carrick-Anderson, claim Britain's first medal at Gangwon. Hosts Korea narrowly missed out on gold in speedskating.

 The other results in the mixed team events were as follows: -Group A, Session 4: New

Zealand - Nigeria (10-1).

 Japan - New Zealand (6-2). Nigeria - USA (0-2).

Just two more tickets to Paris were up for grabs on the final day of the FIH Hockey 2024 Olympic Qualifiers in Valencia, Spain and Muscat, Oman on Sunday.

In the end, it was New Zealand who beat Pakistan in Muscat and Ireland who defeated Korea in Valencia

FIHMuscatPakistan and New Zealand went were into the third-place play-off with their Paris ambitions

New Zealand looked to be in trouble until deep into the second half when Hugo Inglis levelled the scores

 Speaking after the match an, elated New Zealand captain, Nic Woods, said: "It's really crazy.

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