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Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month, Moscow said on Friday. “We are preparing for an official Russian-Chinese summit,” Russian Foreign Minister Ser…

France took a clear victory in the women’s biathlon relay World Cup in Ruhpolding on Friday but hosts Germany were made to wait further for their first podium of the Olympic season. Favourites France stormed to the win in the 4×6-kilometre race with An…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month, Moscow said on Friday. “We are preparing for an official Russian-Chinese summit,” Russian Foreign Minister Ser…

Poland’s ski jumpers were deal another pre-Olympics blow on Friday when former Four Hills Tournament winner Dawid Kubacki tested positive for the coronavirus. The 31-year-old Kubacki will miss his home World Cup competitions in Zakopane this weekend, a…

Carlo Janka, Switzerland’s former giant slalom world champion and Olympic champion from 2010, will retire from skiing after home downhill races in Wengen this weekend, he said Thursday. The 35-year-old Janka has struggled for fitness in recent seasons,…

A new bid to host the Olympic Games in Germany must mirror the feelings of the country’s population, the new president of the national Olympic body (DOSB) has said. “It is not possible to host the Olympic Games against the will of the people,” Thomas W…

Olympic champion ski jumper Kamil Stoch has picked up an injury around three weeks before the Winter Games and faces a race against time to make the event in Beijing. The 34-year-old Pole will sit out this weekend’s home World Cup jumps in Zakopane hav…

Johannes Thingnes Boe and most other Norwegian men’s biathlon stars will skip this week’s World Cup races in Germany and train for the upcoming Beijing Olympics instead. The Norwegian federation said on Monday that Boe, his brother Tarjei Boe, Sturla H…

More Omicron cases were reported in China on Monday, jangling nerves in a country that is set to host the Olympics in a matter of weeks. The number of cases in the city of Tianjin, which borders Beijing, doubled from 20 to 40, while two new cases were …

More Omicron cases were reported in China on Monday, jangling nerves in a country that is set to host the Olympics in a matter of weeks. The number of cases in the city of Tianjin, which borders Beijing, doubled from 20 to 40, while two new cases were …