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1 month ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
When Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis was just a promising 17-year-old — not yet the athletics superstar he is today — he told Olympics.com that his plan for the future was to “fulfil my legacy as just the best pole vaulter to ever live.”Nine years, two Olympic gold medals, and 11 world records later, can the Swede now say he has achieved that goal?
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1 month ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
Dopo i medagliati Olimpici Lizzie Deignan e Tom Pidcock, la contea dello Yorkshire, nel nord dell'Inghilterra, potrebbe aver prodotto il suo prossimo grande talento del ciclismo. Si chiama Catrin 'Cat' Ferguson, una diciottenne di Skipton che corre su diversi terreni e sta già facendo colpo a livello di élite dopo aver vinto titoli mondiali juniores su strada, pista e ciclocross. Stranamente, la bici non era nemmeno il suo primo sport.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
The cobbled Spring Classics season reaches its climactic finale on 12-13 April with the 2025 Paris-Roubaix Femmes and Paris-Roubaix, the year's third Monument after Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders. The ‘Hell of the North’ is among the toughest races on the road cycling calendar, with the men’s race marking its 122nd edition and the women’s its fifth.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
Die Saison der Frühjahrsklassiker mit Kopfsteinpflaster erreich am 12. und 13. April 2025 mit Paris-Roubaix Femmes und Paris-Roubaix ihren Höhepunkt. Das dritte Straßenradsport-Monument des Jahres ist nach Mailand-San Remo und der Flandern-Rundfahrt gehört zu den härtesten Rennen des Kalenders, wird nicht umsonst "Hölle des Nordens" genannt. Das Rennen der Männer findet bereits zum 122. und das der Frauen zum fünften Mal statt.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
After Olympic medallists Lizzie Deignan and Tom Pidcock, the county of Yorkshire in Northern England may have produced its next big cycling talent. Her name is Catrin 'Cat' Ferguson, an 18-year-old multi-terrain rider from Skipton, who is already making an impact at the elite level after winning world junior titles in road, track, and cyclo-cross. Funnily enough, cycling wasn’t even her first sport.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
Mikaela Shiffrin wrapped up the women's 2024/25 FIS World Cup Alpine Ski campaign with a slalom win at the Finals in Sun Valley (USA) on Thursday (27 March). Despite the warm and rough conditions on the Greyhawk course, the 30-year-old delivered a dominant performance to claim her fourth World Cup victory of the season and extend her record to 101 career wins on the sport's elite tour.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
The 2025 Gent-Wevelgem and Gent-Wevelgem Women highlight the first week of the Belgian road cycling classics season, leading up to the Tour of Flanders on 6 April. Both races will take place on Sunday, 30 March, starting in Ypres and finishing in Wevelgem. The men's event celebrates its 77th edition. The defending champion is Denmark's Mads Pedersen, who last year surged past Mathieu van der Poel in a two-up sprint.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi
When discussing Team USA's impressive success in skiing and snowboarding in recent years, several remarkable female athletes come to mind, from alpine skiing history-maker Mikaela Shiffrin to cross-country star Jessie Diggins and halfpipe double Olympic champion Chloe Kim. But behind the scenes, another brilliant woman has been working to make this happen: Sophie Goldschmidt.
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi |Ed Pearce
“这个赛季的结局再好不过了。”林赛·沃恩在时隔2565天再次登上世界杯领奖台后，满面笑容地对Olympics.com说道。 对于这位美国高山滑雪传奇来说，这是一个充满情感的周末。在爱达荷州阳光谷举行的世界杯总决赛女子超级大回转比赛中获得第二名后，她喜极而泣。 “我一直知道我可以做到，但今天的表现让我对明年充满信心。我还有很多工作要做，但经历了今天之后，我的心态积极了很多。”这位情绪高昂的40岁老将站在“挑战者”赛道附近的露台上对我们说。 “我觉得自己在压力大的时候滑得最好，我真的很想为家人、为主场观众滑出好成绩。”她补充道。 由于大部分世界杯比赛都在欧洲举行，这次的成绩对她而言意义非凡，特别是考虑到距离2026年米兰科尔蒂纳冬奥会不到一年。 “我这一生中很少有机会在美国参加速度项目的比赛，所以我特别想把握住这次机会。我想这也让我更有信心面对科尔蒂纳的比赛，知道自己在压力之下依然能有好表现，我依然有那个实力。当然，我还得完成资格赛，但经历了今天，我对自己的机会真的很乐观。” 林赛·沃恩：起伏的一季 沃恩于去年12月重返滑雪赛场，这是她退役近六年后的首次复出。...
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2 months ago | 
olympics.com | Alessandro Poggi |Ed Pearce
“This season couldn’t have ended any better,” a beaming Lindsey Vonn told Olympics.com after being on a World Cup podium for the first time in 2,565 days. It was an emotional weekend for the US alpine skiing legend, who couldn’t hold back her tears of joy in Sun Valley, Idaho, after her second place in the women's Super-G at the World Cup Finals. “I always knew that I could, but I think that it just gives me a lot of confidence going into next year.
