Updated - Alpine Skiing World Cup: Hirscher wins slalom to lock up record 7th overall title Sunday, 4 March 2018, 15:33 Last update: about 10 years ago Marcel Hirscher won the penultimate men's World Cup slalom Sunday to secure his seventh straight overall championship. The two-time Olympic champion from Austria stretched his lead over his only...
Updated - Alpine Skiing World Cup: Federica Brignone wins combined event, Holdener takes globe Sunday, 4 March 2018, 14:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Federica Brignone edged Olympic champion Michelle Gisin to win the last women's World Cup Alpine combined event of the season on Sunday. Ranked fifth after the super-G portion, the Italian posted...
Updated - Roger Bannister, first to run mile in under 4 minutes, dies at the age of 88 Sunday, 4 March 2018, 13:14 Last update: about 10 years ago Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88. Bannister's family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the English...
Updated - World Athletics Indoor Championships: Coleman wins 60m in world indoors record time Sunday, 4 March 2018, 09:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Tomas Walsh of New Zealand threw a world indoors athletics championship record to win the shot put on Saturday. Not content with 22.13 meters with his first shot, defending champion Walsh threw a...
Boxing: Kovalev stops Mikhalkin to defend light heavyweight title Sunday, 4 March 2018, 09:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Back on track after two straight powerful performances, Sergey Kovalev looks ready for a bigger test. He wasn't interested in talking about another fight with Andre Ward. How about a match...
Alpine Skiing World Cup: Hirscher locks up World Cup GS title with race to spare Saturday, 3 March 2018, 14:33 Last update: about 10 years ago Marcel Hirscher locked up the men's World Cup giant slalom title with a race to spare on Saturday. The Olympic GS champion from Austria dominated the penultimate event of the season, giving him...
[Updated] Alpine Skiing World Cup: Weirather leads race to super-G title with one race remaining Saturday, 3 March 2018, 12:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Tina Weirather won a women's World Cup super-G on Saturday to go top of the discipline standings with one race remaining. The Olympic bronze medalist from Liechtenstein overtook Lara Gut, who...
[Updated] Sailing: Maltese Musketeer lead protagonists in Act 2 of the Sports Boat Class Saturday, 3 March 2018, 11:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Act 2 of the Sports Boat Class took place on the last weekend of February. The Sports Boat Class aims to take crews in various locations around the islands. True to their word this time crews...
[Updated] World Athletics Indoor Championships: Cuban is youngest male field event winner Saturday, 3 March 2018, 11:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Katarina Johnson-Thompson claimed her first global title in the pentathlon at the world indoor athletics championships on Friday. Johnson-Thompson led the standings going into the final event and...
World Championships Track Cycling: Vogel wins record-tying 11th women's world cycling title Saturday, 3 March 2018, 11:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Kristina Vogel of Germany won a record-tying 11th women's world cycling title when she took out the individual sprint at the track world championships on Friday. Vogel, Olympic champion in the...