USA bobsleigh veteran Meyers Taylor wins elusive gold
American bobsleigher Elana Meyers Taylor finally struck Olympic gold at the age of 41 in the Milan-Cortina Games on Monday.
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Miura and Kihara snatch Olympic pairs gold for Japan
Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara pulled out the best performance of their careers to move from fifth overnight to grab Olympic figure skating pairs gold on Monday.
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Gu pipped to gold again as Meillard extends Swiss ski dominance at Olympics
China's freestyle skiing superstar Eileen Gu was beaten to gold for the second time at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday after Loic Meillard extended Switzerland's domination of the men's alpine skiing.
Read moreCanada's Oldham beats defending champion Gu to freeski big air gold
Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham won the Olympic women's big air final on Monday, denying defending champion Eileen Gu a first gold of the Milan-Cortina Games.
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Barca suffer title defence blow in Girona derby defeat
Spanish champions Barcelona fell to a damaging 2-1 defeat at Girona on Monday to leave them trailing Real Madrid by two points at the top of La Liga.
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Brentford edge out sixth-tier Macclesfield in FA Cup
Brentford avoided a huge FA Cup shock with a 1-0 win at sixth-tier Macclesfield on Monday but needed a late own goal to beat a side 116 places below them in the English football pyramid.
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Canada's Oldham wins Olympic freeski big air final, denying Gu gold
Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham won the women's Olympic big air final on Monday, denying defending champion Eileen Gu a first gold of the Milan-Cortina Games.
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France loosens rules on allowing farmers to shoot wolves
The French government said Monday it would authorise the shooting of wolves that attack livestock even outside protected enclosures, a policy shift welcomed by farmers, a powerful and increasingly disgruntled constituency.
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USA thrash Sweden to reach Olympic women's ice hockey final
The USA glided into the final of the women's ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics with a 5-0 win against Sweden on Monday.
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Russian poisonings aim to kill -- and send a message
Polonium, Novichok and now dart frog poison: the finding that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed with a rare toxin has revived the spectre of Moscow's use of poisons against opponents -- a hallmark of its secret services, according to experts.
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