Month: February 2018
Rowing: Robbie Manson wins, Mahe Drysdale suffers at New Zealand championships
Robbie Manson has defended his national rowing championships title in the single sculls.He won today’s final by 3.41s from double sculls world champion John Storey, with Ireland’s Paul O’Donovan a further 1.03s back in third.Mahe…
Gregor Paul: How World Rugby conspired against the All Blacks
Naturally, the notion there could be a World Rugby conspiracy to end or limit the All Blacks’ dominance has to be laughed out of town.What paranoid nonsense. What patent madcap scepticism that the governing body would be feeling…
South Korea’s Yun Sung-bin demolishes competition to win skeleton gold
Yun Sung-bin left no doubt. It’s his track. It’s his gold medal.The most decisive Olympic skeleton champion ever is a 23-year-old who had no idea …
Who to watch on Saturday, Day 9 of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
9:05 a.m. Curling, women’s preliminary round: Entering the fourth day of the preliminary round, Japan will face China and the Olympic Athletes from Russia. Japan, …
Switzerland bests Japan’s men’s curling team
Japan fell to its second defeat in a row, a 6-5 loss to Switzerland, in men’s curling at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday.Switzerland took …
