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Sweden’s Elvira Oeberg followed her maiden biathlon World Cup win on Saturday with her second on Sunday as powerful skiing saw her triumph in the first mass start of the season in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand. And there was joy for the home fans as Emilien …

Swedish cross-country duo Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling completed a glorious trip to Dresden with World Cup team sprint victory on Sunday, a day after going one-two in the individual races in the German city. The pair won the combined 7.8-kilometre…

The ice-cold expression on the face of Erling Haaland was a clear summation of Borussia Dortmund’s situation as the one-time title hopefuls reached the Bundesliga winter break with their dreams surely shattered. Saturday’s 3-2 defeat away to Hertha Ber…

Quentin Fillon Maillet thrilled a huge French home crowd with victory in a biathlon pursuit race on Saturday while Sweden’s Elvira Oeberg claimed a first career victory in the women’s race. Fillon Maillet got his second pursuit victory within eight day…

Sweden’s Elvira Oeberg made the most of her fast skiing to claim a first career victory in the biathlon World Cup on Saturday, and her more famous sister Hanna also climbed the podium. Elvira Oeberg, 22, could afford two penalty laps as she dominated a…

American Bryce Bennett claimed his first World Cup skiing career win in a downhill race on Saturday while on the women’s side Italian Sofia Goggia continued her perfect into the season in the speed discipline. The towering Bennett triumphed in Val Gard…

Three-time reigning biathlon World Cup champion Johannes Thingnes Boe claimed his first victory in almost 11 months on Friday when he dominated a sprint race in France. Norway’s Boe shot clean and covered the 10 kilometres in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand in…

Alexander Aamodt Kilde claimed back-to-back victories in the World Cup super-g in Val Gardena on Friday which gave Norway their eighth win the last 10 races in the discipline there. Kilde conquered the Saslong piste in 1 minute 25.91 seconds for his th…

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe is upbeat that Russia’s long suspension in connection with doping practices can be lifted next year. Russia’s federation Rusaf was suspended in 2015 and its clean athletes are only allowed to compete as neutrals …

Europe’s UEFA has complained about a lack of information from the world governing body FIFA on a global football summit which on Monday is to discuss a revision of the international match calendar and a possible biennial World Cup. “There will be 500 p…