The Visa U.S. Snowboarding Cup returns to Whiteface Mountain, outside of Lake Placid, for three competitions March 1-3. The lone U.S. World Cup stop for snowboardcross, parallel giant slalom and an exhibition team SBX race - a new event in snowboard competitions, marks the fourth consecutive year of the World Cup tour stopping in New York.
Sport England is giving MPs and Lords the opportunity to spend seven days each with some of the nation’s best known sporting organisations to promote better understanding between the worlds of sport and politics.
Australian Olympic contenders Felicity Abram and Emma Moffatt will headline a quality field in this Saturday’s 2008 Gold Coast Triathlon ITU Oceania Cup Abram will contest her first race since placing second to Emma Snowsill at the Noosa Triathlon on November 4.
The Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team (CPAST) completed the 2007/08 IPC World Cup season by achieving a best-ever Nation’s Cup ranking, finishing second as the season drew to a close today with the cancellation of slalom races in Hackuba, JPN. photo Alpine Canada
There were celebrations for Australia in the first two NSC Squash Satellites of the year at the National Squash Centre at Bukit Jalil in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. photo WISPA
The referee and delegate nominations for the 1/4 final of the Women's European Cup matches. The matches will take place on 8/9 March 2008 (1st leg) and 15/16 March 2008 (2nd leg). photo EHF
The inaugural HSBC Women's Champions celebrated its official launch today at Merlion Park with a special press conference and photo call. photo Getty Images for HSBC
Britain surpassed the highest of expectations on their way to achieving sporting history in Beijing this week in qualifying for every event on the Olympic programme.
Three days of Revolution Tour action wrapped up Sunday with a women's slopestyle competition won by Lynn Neil (Ogden, UT), who also won the Duluth, MN, slopestyle competition of the tour. The men's slopestyle was canceled due to foggy conditions.
The annual Caravan and Boat show was given another dose of glamour when the girls from Team Swift Racing took the decision to formally launch their 2008 team line up at the event. photo Joolze Dymond
After earning her first career World Cup medal on Friday, Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Cedar Springs, Mich.) added a second bronze medal to her collection on Saturday with a third-place finish in the women’s 20-kilometer points race
From breakthrough performances to World Championship medals, they demonstrated not only their current strength in the international peloton, but also the promise of strength for years to come. photo US Cycling
Webcor Builder’s Katheryn Curi Mattis (Mountain View, Calif.) recorded the most significant victory of her career on Sunday with a win in the opening round of the 2008 UCI Women’s Road World Cup.
Denver -- Sink or Swim for the Sioux Falls Roller Dollz March 1st as they take on Rocky Mountain Rollergirls home team: the Sugar Kill Gang @ The Bladium 2400 Central Park Blvd. Stapleton. This the first time these teams go toe stop-2-toe stop.
Stevenson (All Stars Taekwondo Club, Doncaster) beat Nina Solheim of Norway in the final of the -72kg category to clinch gold, her gold was one of three medals which came from female British athletes competing at the event. photo Sarah Stevenson in action (red)
Sally Conway achieved valuable Olympic ranking points in the -70kg weight category when she won silver at the 2008 Hamburg Super World Cup at the weekend – a personal best in her senior career.
Canadian para-alpine skiers clinched two of the six overall World Cup titles today as the IPC World Cup event in Hackuba, JPN finally got underway after two days of cancellations related snow conditions. photos Alpine Canada
Newly-crowned Dutch national squash champion Annelize Naude added a further international title to her portfolio when she beat England's Lauren Siddall in the final of the Women's Internationaux de Creteil at the Centre Marie Therese Eyquem in Creteil, France. photo WISPA
The Independent Women's Football League is pleased to announce the league has partnered with Fanz-TV (a United Multi-Media Investments company) for the 2008 IWFL season.
Elena Dementieva delivered an impressive performance to defeat Patty Schnyder in Monday's opening round. Meeting her for a place in the quarterfinals will be Alona Bondarenko
South Africa and Pakistan have become the final two teams to qualify for the 2009 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup after the completion of the qualifying tournament in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
At 1530 local time (0730 GMT) on Sunday a horn sounded across Fuschan Bay, Qingdao, signalling the start of Race 7 of the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Yacht Race to Hawaii. photo Zoe Williamson/onEdition
Alice McKennis (18; Glenwood Springs, CO; Rowmark Ski Academy) turned in the top U.S. performance Saturday, finishing 19th in super G as the 2007 FIS Alpine Junior World Championships opened in unseasonable 40-degree weather and soft snow.
Larisa Yurkiw (Owen Sound, ON) opened the FIS World Junior Alpine Ski Championships in Formigal, SPA today by finishing the Ladies super G as the top Canadian in 10th place.
RAMSAU, Austria (Feb. 23) - Jessica Jerome (Park City, UT) led three other Americans into the top 20, Saturday, during a ski jumping FIS Continental Cup.
