5 h. ago Reigning Olympic ski champion Michelle Gisin airlifted after downhill crash in training

Michelle Gisin is the third Swiss reigning Olympic champion to crash in practice in recent weeks

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13 h. ago Verona's ancient Roman arena gets a modern facelift for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games

Verona's ancient Roman Arena is getting a modern facelift for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games

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22 h. ago NHL warns top players will not show up for Winter Olympics if venue is unsafe

Construction delays have beset ice hockey arena in Milan‘If the ice isn’t ready, we’re not going,’ warns NHL deputyThe NHL says it is “disappointing” that the main ice hockey venue for the Winter Olympics will not be ready until the new year – and warned that its top players will not show up unless the ice is shown to be safe.The men’s and women’s tournaments are expected to be among the highlights of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games with the NHL stars showing up for the first time since 2014. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Lindsey Vonn eyes Winter Olympics glory after gaining 12 pounds of muscle at 41

Lindsey Vonn is aiming for more Winter Olympics glory at the age of 41

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24 h. ago 2026 Winter Games ticket sales update as Olympic chief hopes for torch relay boost amid ‘trailing’ admission

The Winter Olympics get underway in less than two months, with the Paralympics following in March

Sport

27 h. ago Himalayan mountaineering instructor quits job to chase Olympic dream

She recently won India’s first international medal in women’s cross-country skiing

Sport

29 h. ago Russian and Belarusian skiers to compete in Winter Olympics qualifying events amid war in Ukraine

Skiers from Russia and Belarus have been given the green light to compete in qualifying events for February’s Winter Games

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29 h. ago Meet the Team GB figure skating star using Spice Girls setlist to fire her to Winter Olympic glory

Torvill and Dean were the last British pairing to earn a Winter Olympic medal in the sport, at Lillehammer 1994, but Lilah Fear and her skating partner Lewis Gibson have been hotly tipped to end the drought at Milano-Cortina in February

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30 h. ago Dundee figure skater Luke Digby relishing Winter Olympic dream after booking place in Milano

The 24-year-old has been announced as part of the British figure skating team for the upcoming Olympic Games in February, alongside his skating partner Anastasia Vaipan-Law

Politics

30 h. ago Meet the Dundee figure skater hoping to propel the sport onto the map at Milano

The 26-year-old and partner Luke Digby will make their Winter Olympic debut next February

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5 d. ago First look revealed for Team USA’s Ralph Lauren kit for the Olympics

US stars will be wearing Ralph Lauren kit at the Winter Games next year

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6 d. ago Former Olympic athlete coughing up blood after landlord 'left him living with black mould for years'

Marcus Adam is one of just 128 athletes in history to have competed in both the Winter and Summer Olympics

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8 d. ago 'World's sexiest footballer' Alisha Lehmann lands shock new role after topless snap

Alisha Lehmann has been handed a surprising new role at the Winter Olympics alongside former Manchester United star Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Juventus icon Ciro Ferrara

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9 d. ago Russia claims its blanket ban on competing at the Winter Olympics has been overturned

Russia claimed the ban had been overturned on Tuesday

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1 week ago Mikaela Shiffrin maintains perfect start to Olympic season with third slalom win

The American extended her record number of World Cup victories to 104 and slalom wins to 67

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1 week ago Scottish skater breaks British record held by Torvill and Dean with eighth championship win

The duo are to compete for a medal at this year’s Winter Olympics

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1 week ago The Scottish skater who has broken the British record held by Torvill and Dean

The duo are to compete for a medal at this year’s Winter Olympics

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1 week ago ‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu

As the first part of his acclaimed Blinding trilogy is released in the UK, the novelist talks about communism, Vladimir Nabokov – and those Nobel rumoursIn 2014, when he was travelling around the US on a book tour, Mircea Cărtărescu was able to fulfil the dream of a lifetime: a tour of Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection. Cărtărescu is a great admirer of the Russian-American author, and shares with him a literary career that bridges the western and eastern cultural spheres – as well as a history of being mooted as the next Nobel literature laureate but never having won it.Above all, the Romanian poet and novelist shares Nabokov’s fascination with butterflies. As a child, he harboured dreams of becoming a lepidopterist. On a visit to Harvard, Cărtărescu was allowed access to Nabokov’s former office and marvelled at specimens the St Petersburg-born author had collected. “His most important scientific work was about butterflies’ sexual organs, and I saw these very tiny vials w...

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1 week ago Organisers admit ‘no plan B’ for Winter Olympics ice hockey if new venue not ready

Work on the venue of one of the Winter Games’ flagship sports is running seriously behind schedule

Politics

1 week ago Russian and Belarusian figure skaters get IOC approval for Winter Olympics

Three Russian and Belarusian skaters have been granted neutral status for the Milan-Cortina Games

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