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Norway to Host 2016 Youth Winter Olympic Games

Norway to Host 2016 Youth Winter Olympic Games

Norway will host the 2016 Youth Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer. The inaugural Youth Winter Olympics will be held in 2012 at Innsbruck in Austria, making the Norwegian event the…

Kevin Rolland Watches With Interest As Ski Half Pipe Introduced to Olympics

Kevin Rolland Watches With Interest As Ski Half Pipe Introduced to Olympics

French freestyle skier, Kevin Rolland, will be watching with interest as the Ski Halfpipe event is introduced to an Olympic event for the first time in January 2012. The Winter…

International Olympic Committee Impressed with Sochi 2014 Progress

International Olympic Committee Impressed with Sochi 2014 Progress

The International Olympic Committee are impressed with the progress being made in preparation for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in 2014. Sixty test events are planned ahead of the…

Munich, Annecy and PyeongChang Bid for 2018 Winter Olympics

Munich, Annecy and PyeongChang Bid for 2018 Winter Olympics

Munich, Annecy and PyeongChang have presented their candidatures for the 2018 Winter Olympics to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. The briefing process will conclude on…

Olympics: Six New Sports to be added to Winter Olympics

Olympics: Six New Sports to be added to Winter Olympics

Six new sports will be eligible for Olympic status in time for the Sochi Games in Russia in 2014. Situated on the border with Georgia near Turkey, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran…

Voting Opens on MINI Snowboarding Award: “Creative Use of Space”

Voting Opens on MINI Snowboarding Award: “Creative Use of Space”

MINI is now inviting snowboarding fans to vote for their favourite snowboarding performance from the Burton Global Open Series at Laax in Switzerland. The female and male winners of the…

New Sports to be Added to Winter Olympics for Sochi 2014

New Sports to be Added to Winter Olympics for Sochi 2014

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee announced on Monday 26th October 2010 that it is looking favourably at the inclusion of the following events in the programme of…

Team GB Kit Launched For Winter Olympics 2010

Team GB Kit Launched For Winter Olympics 2010

The official kit for members of this year’s British Winter Olympics team was this evening unveiled at Somerset House, London.  The names of a further 19 athletes who will be…

British Olympic Association Urges Calm Over Snowsport GB Difficulties

British Olympic Association Urges Calm Over Snowsport GB Difficulties

Reports that the national governing body for Winter sports in the UK is about to go into administration have prompted the British Olympic Association to reassure athletes. Snowsport GB is…

British Short Track Speed Skating Team Announced

British Short Track Speed Skating Team Announced

Team GB will be sending seven short track speed skating athletes to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games in February. The Team GB short track speed skating athletes in Vancouver…