At Innsbruck 1976, 19-year-old Priestner opened up her Olympic ... General Manager at the Calgary 1988 Olympic Oval from 1986-96. Priestner carried the Olympic Flame (with alpine skier Ken Read) into ...

A bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to award Congressional Gold Medals to the "Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team that defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union ...

After first stepping into the limelight, aged 16, at the Winter Youth Olympic Games 2012 in Innsbruck – where she was victorious – Jacqueline Lölling became European and world champion six years later ...

Sure enough, new head coach Emma Hayes led the USWNT to the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, returning them to the top of the podium for the first time since 2012 and securing redemption ...

Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance, as well as a team event. Figure skating was part of the inaugural Winter Youth Olympics, held in January 2012 in ...

The first recorded competitive canoe sprint race took place at the British Royal Canoe Club in 1869. Canoe and kayak races feature on the Olympic Games programme, each with its own specific rules.

The highly-anticipated and the fastest form of the game, Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is back to entertain one and all with the 2024 edition set to run from November 1 to November 3 at the Tin Kwong Road ...

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Speeches ensue. On Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony.

The much anticipated fastest format of cricket made it's return as 12 teams, including India, Pakistan, Australia, England and South Africa, do battle for the trophy in Hong Kong Sixes 2024, which ...

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