Daniela Iraschko of Austria won her second straight women's World Cup ski jump title Sunday. The
world champion, who also placed first in a shortened event Saturday,
earned 238.4 points to beat World Cup leader Sarah Hendrickson of the
United States by 5.2 points.
Maxim Vylegzhanin led a Russian 1-2 sweep in a cross-country World Cup
skiathlon race Sunday for his first victory of the season, while Therese
Johaug secured her first individual win of the year in the women's
race.
Norway's Emil Hegle Svendsen raced past Andreas Birnbacher of Germany in
the finishing stretch to win the men's 15-kilometer mass start in front
of a cheering home crowd at a biathlon World Cup event on Sunday.
Cycling teams at the Tour of Qatar welcomed the end of a U.S. federal
investigation into Lance Armstrong, saying Sunday they were hopeful the
seven-time Tour de France champion could finally move on with his life.
Julia Mancuso won a super-G on Sunday for her first World Cup victory of
the season, while fellow American Lindsey Vonn skied off the course and
did not finish.
Taekwondo is a traditional Korean martial art, which means “the way of kicking and punching”. The origin of the art of Taekkyon (“foot-hand”) dates back to Korea’s Three-Kingdom era (c.50 BC).
The evolution of taekwondo has made today’s version of the sport a lower limb kicking ballet. Although practitioners are allowed to use their fists to beat the competitor, attacks are mainly by kicking, taekwondo’s trademark.
It was only in the 20th. C, however, that this format became the most popular martial art in Korea.
Together with Judo, Wrestling, Boxing and Taekwondo represent martial arts in the Olympic Movement. This week Rio 2016™ is paying homage to some of the most traditional sports in the Olympic programme.
Wrestling, divided into Men’s and Women’s Freestyle and Men’s Greco-Roman, is known as one of the world’s oldest competitive sports, as much as Athletics.
The Rio 2016™ Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games has completed the interview stage of the phase three in the international contest for the selection of the Rio 2016™ Olympic Games golf course design.
Rio 2016™ was extremely pleased with the high quality of the eight proposals submitted.
The contest winner and the design will be announced in March upon the visit of the International Olympic Committee to Rio de Janeiro for the fifth Rio 2016™ project review meeting.
The wrestling tradition in Azerbaijan, multi-medallist in boxing and Freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines since its independence from Soviet Union, in 1991, started its expansion. Since Beijing 2008, the glow of the new Olympic champion made the population wear kimonos and turn its eyes to Elnur Mammadli’s Judo, who instantly became a star with the achievement.
His gold medal in the 66-73kg category and the bronze medal of Movlud Miraliyev (90-100kg) were Azerbaijan first podiums in the sport.