(L to R) Florence Masnada and Edgar Grospiron met with Gwladys Nocera at the Evian Masters golf tournament on 24th July 2010 / A. Carraz - Annecy 2018LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
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(L to R) Florence Masnada and Edgar Grospiron met with Gwladys Nocera at the Evian Masters golf tournament on 24th July 2010 / A. Carraz - Annecy 2018LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin lost an appeal Friday of a decision stripping him of his 2008 Olympic silver medal for doping. He could now be suspended by cycling’s governing body and stripped of other race results.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the International Olympic Committee was right to disqualify Rebellin after he tested positive for the banned blood-boosting drug CERA.
(Center) Nawal El Moutawakel chairing the Rio 2106 evaluation visit (L to R) Craig Reedie, Jacqueline Barrett, Nawal El Moutawakel and Gilbert Felli / Rio 2016
Fifty year homage to the 1960 Olympics / Image: CONI
ITTIGEN, Switzerland (AP)—Switzerland’s Olympic committee says the country is capable of hosting the 2022 Winter Games and will form a strategy to present a bid to the International Olympic Committee.
The Swiss Olympic body said Friday that a report it commissioned concludes that the Alpine nation could proceed with a bid.
ITTIGEN, SWITZERLAND(AP) —Switzerland’s Olympic committee says the country is capable of hosting the 2022 Winter Games and will form a strategy to present a bid to the International Olympic Committee.
The Swiss Olympic body said Friday that a report it commissioned concludes that the Alpine nation could proceed with a bid.
CANMORE, Alta. ' Win an Olympic gold medal as an American, an Australian, an European or an Asian and there's a very good chance you'll be set for life financially.
Yet, it's only a handful of highly decorated and visible Canadian amateur athletes who will be able to cash on their Olympic successes. But the latest group of medallists from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics say that while it still takes a lot of knocking, there are more opportunities now than ever before.
Happy man: UEFA's French president Michel Platini / Fotosports.comKEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications