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Oksana Masters could have easily missed the Lillehammer 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships after testing positive for COVID-19 on New Year’s Eve. Instead, as soon as the tests came back negative, the USA sit skier packed her bags and rushed to join the world’s best athletes on the starting line in Norway.  That effort has now yielded her career’s ...

PULLY, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Executive Board approved the provisional international events calendar for 2022. The calendar includes four baseball events, four softball events and the inaugural Baseball5 World Cup. “After the historic year of 2021, which featured baseball and softball’s successful Olympic return and the U-23 Baseball World Cup and U-18 Women’s Softball World Cup, we’re looking ...

Dunith Wellalage was again the star for Sri Lanka as he took a five-fer and scored 52 to guide his side to a four-wicket victory over Australia in the ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup. The Lions came out on top in the tussle between the two unbeaten teams in Group D, with no Australian able to match Wellalage ...

It has been five years since Great Britain’s Millie Knight and her guide Brett Wild have stood on top of the podium at a World Championships. In that time, Knight has struggled with a serious concussion and back injury, took time off from the sport and had plenty of doubts about whether to continue competing. But in Monday’s super combined ...

LAHORE (Jan 18, 2022): Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Noor ul Amin Mengal called on Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti at the National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday. Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti and Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Noor ul Amin Mengal exchanged views regarding promotion of sports ...

LAHORE (Jan 18, 2022): Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti in a statement on Tuesday has expressed his satisfaction on the overwhelming participation of thousands of male and female athletes from across the province in the trials of 73rd Punjab Games. It is pertinent to note here that 73rd Punjab Games will be organized under the ...

LAHORE (Jan 18, 2022): Director General Sports Punjab Javed Chohan said that the massive participation of male and female athletes in 73rd Punjab Games trials is a good omen for the future of sports culture in Punjab; he said this in a statement on Monday. Director General Sports Punjab Javed Chohan said over 30 thousand male and female athletes belonging ...

There is something about the biathlon middle distance race that makes Belarus’ Yury Holub invincible.  The 2018 Paralympic and 2019 world champion in the men’s vision impaired event kept a tight hold of his crown during the second day of biathlon racing at the Lillehammer 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships.    Even falling on one of the descents did ...

The Para ice hockey competition schedule has been set for the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, with 20 games to be played within a nine-day span. All games will be played at the National Indoor Stadium. The eight participating teams will be separated into two groups, with Group A featuring the top-four ranked teams in the world and Group B ...

Austria’s Markus Salcher regained his downhill crown on the opening day of Para alpine racing at the Lillehammer 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships after falling one spot short of that goal three years ago. Skiing third in the men’s standing class, the downhill champion from the 2013 and 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships recorded a blazing run of ...