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HIDALGO SAYS PARIS 2024 REMAINS ON TRACK DESPITE Hidalgo says Paris 2024 remains on track despite challenges of COVID-19. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has said organisers are on track with preparations for the FOUR CANDIDATES CONFIRMED FOR FIS PRESIDENCY CONTEST The International Ski Federation has confirmed the four candidates bidding to succeed longstanding head Gian-Franco Kasper as President during its virtual Congress next month. WHY I BELIEVE THE TOKYO OLYMPICS MUST GO AHEAD, VIRUS OR Alan Hubbard: Why I believe the Tokyo Olympics must go ahead, virus or no virus. If there is a God, then He - or She - surely will make a divine intervention to ensure that the delayed Tokyo 2020

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wanting the

HIDALGO SAYS PARIS 2024 REMAINS ON TRACK DESPITE Hidalgo says Paris 2024 remains on track despite challenges of COVID-19. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has said organisers are on track with preparations for the FOUR CANDIDATES CONFIRMED FOR FIS PRESIDENCY CONTEST The International Ski Federation has confirmed the four candidates bidding to succeed longstanding head Gian-Franco Kasper as President during its virtual Congress next month. WHY I BELIEVE THE TOKYO OLYMPICS MUST GO AHEAD, VIRUS OR Alan Hubbard: Why I believe the Tokyo Olympics must go ahead, virus or no virus. If there is a God, then He - or She - surely will make a divine intervention to ensure that the delayed Tokyo 2020 FIS RELEASES DRAFT PLANS FOR 2021-2022 CROSS-COUNTRY WORLD The International Ski Federation (FIS) is planning to stage the 2021-2022 Cross-Country World Cup campaign in five blocks with the

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Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed ROME TO HOST 2021 STREET SKATEBOARDING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Rome has been chosen to host the Street Skateboarding World Championships, which will act as a qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The event is set to IOC GUIDELINES ON TRANSGENDER ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY REMAIN Existing International Olympic Committee guidelines on the eligibility of transgender athletes will remain in place for Tokyo 2020, amid an ongoing consultation process. ANTI-DOPING CLAIMED TO COST SPORT $300 MILLION EACH YEAR Figures compiled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) claim the total sporting spending on anti-doping amounts to $300 million (£242 million/€279 million) each year. ALABAMA, STATE HOSTING 2022 WORLD GAMES, PASSES ANTI Alabama, state hosting Birmingham 2022 World Games, passes anti-transgender sports bill. Alabama, the state due to host the World Games in Birmingham next year, has passed a bill banning ZAGITOVA OMITTED FROM RUSSIAN FIGURE SKATING TEAM FOR Olympic champion Alina Zagitova and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva have not been included in the Russian Figure Skating Federation's (RFSF) national team for SPORT’S NEW NORMAL As the world of sport ponders on how best to return to action when the coronavirus crisis allows, there is a common requirement - maintaining the safety and health of participants and spectators. NO COMBINED EVENTS IN FIS WORLD CUP SCHEDULE FOR 2021-2022 For the second successive season there will be no combined events on the International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup

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Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed MORE ATHLETES CLAIM THEY CONTRACTED COVID-19 AT MILITARY More athletes have revealed that they fell ill during the Military World Games in October when the Chinese city of Wuhan hosted the event months before the COVID-19 outbreak. ROME TO HOST 2021 STREET SKATEBOARDING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Rome has been chosen to host the Street Skateboarding World Championships, which will act as a qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The event is set to IIHF REVEALS NEUTRAL ROC KIT FOR UPCOMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The International Ice Hockey Federation has revealed new uniforms for the "neutral" Russian national team that will compete at upcoming World Championships and the WHY I BELIEVE THE TOKYO OLYMPICS MUST GO AHEAD, VIRUS OR It is imperative that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games go ahead as a panacea to the gloom and doom that has enveloped us all thanks to COVID-19, writes Alan Hubbard. CHANGES ANNOUNCED TO BIGGEST CURLING TEAMS IN CANADA Canada's top curling sides have announced line up changes for the 2020/21 campaign after the curling season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic. SOUTH AFRICA VARSITY SPORT SUSPENDED UNTIL 2021 DUE TO Authorities in South Africa has announced that all Varsity Sport events, the top level of university competition in the country, has been suspended until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. USA CURLING REVEALS BEIJING 2022 QUALIFICATION PROCESS Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London

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Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed MORE ATHLETES CLAIM THEY CONTRACTED COVID-19 AT MILITARY More athletes have revealed that they fell ill during the Military World Games in October when the Chinese city of Wuhan hosted the event months before the COVID-19 outbreak. ROME TO HOST 2021 STREET SKATEBOARDING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Rome has been chosen to host the Street Skateboarding World Championships, which will act as a qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The event is set to IIHF REVEALS NEUTRAL ROC KIT FOR UPCOMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The International Ice Hockey Federation has revealed new uniforms for the "neutral" Russian national team that will compete at upcoming World Championships and the WHY I BELIEVE THE TOKYO OLYMPICS MUST GO AHEAD, VIRUS OR It is imperative that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games go ahead as a panacea to the gloom and doom that has enveloped us all thanks to COVID-19, writes Alan Hubbard. CHANGES ANNOUNCED TO BIGGEST CURLING TEAMS IN CANADA Canada's top curling sides have announced line up changes for the 2020/21 campaign after the curling season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic. SOUTH AFRICA VARSITY SPORT SUSPENDED UNTIL 2021 DUE TO Authorities in South Africa has announced that all Varsity Sport events, the top level of university competition in the country, has been suspended until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. USA CURLING REVEALS BEIJING 2022 QUALIFICATION PROCESS Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London

2012 at

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Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed PNGOC THROWS SUPPORT BEHIND WEIGHTLIFTER TOUA The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee has insisted history-making weightlifter Dika Toua remains in its Olympic plans and has offered the athlete support, after

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------------------------- Jon Bon Jovi will record a charity single to support the Invictus Games Foundation on February 28, it has been announced. The American singer-songwriter, who fronts the band Bon Jovi, will join members of the Invictus Games Choir to record the single in Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios. The studios in London were made famous by the Beatles, who recorded 11 out of their 13 albums there. Bon Jovi released the single _Unbroken_ last year with the aim of highlighting veterans who are living with post-traumatic stress

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The single is set to feature on the forthcoming album Bon Jovi 2020. The charity version of the single with the Invictus Games Choir will be released in March, which will be in aid of the Invictus Games

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The Invictus Games Choir, managed and delivered by Help for Heroes, is made up of wounded, injured and sick veterans and serving personnel from all branches and different ranks of the UK Armed Forces. It is hoped the choir helps aid their recovery. Prince Harry, the founder of the Invictus Games, is due to attend the recording on Friday (February 28). The Duke of Sussex will talk to Jon Bon Jovi about the single, before watching him perform with the choir. Both Prince Harry and Jon Bon Jovi will meet with members of the choir and competitors from previous Invictus Games, who have been invited to

the event.

The first edition of the Invictus Games took place in London during 2014, with the event aimed at supporting injured, wounded or sick members of the armed forces. Orlando held the event in 2016, before Toronto and Sydney staged the 2017 and 2018 editions. The fifth Invictus Games is due take place in The Hague in May this year, followed by Düsseldorf in 2022. A group of 18 countries participated at the last edition of the event, including Australia, Britain, United States, Afghanistan and Iraq. Archery, athletics, indoor rowing, powerlifting, road cycling, sailing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis featured on the sport

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Prince Harry, who will step down from Royal duties on March 31, serves at the Patron of the Invictus Games.

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CORONAVIRUS

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