Hilary Evans

Will the IOC remove bobsleigh, luge and skeleton from the Olympic programme? Imagine if that were to happen at the next IOC session in June. Rumors to that effect are currently circulating within the Olympic family. In one fell swoop, Germany would lose 73 percent of all Olymp...

Will the IOC remove bobsleigh, luge and skeleton from the Olympic programme?
Rumors to that effect are circulating within the Olympic family. In one fell swoop, Germany would lose 73% of all Olympic medals, for which hundreds of millions of euros are paid.
www.sportandpolitics.de/streicht-das...

My wife and daughters left behind a legacy of love, John Hunt tells BBC The racing commentator, speaking for the first time since the murder of his wife and two daughters, says their love has helped sustain him through grief.

@thekenchilds.com The guy who commentated on the sliding for the BBC in the UK... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apologies to everyone who expected some sharp comments on what's happened at Milan-Cortina but I've had a population explosion at the lambing sheds over the past few week or two. Being a sheep farmer does not mix with the Winter Olympics

Really happy you weren't there when The Who played at Charlton Athletic's football stadium

We can make up any name for a freestyle skiing trick and it will still stand more authentic than its' real name...

@thekenchilds.com #MilanoCortinaOlympic2026 Mia Brookes goes for gold in snowboarding tonight. Her preparation?
"I just listen to music and try and block out all the noise that's going on around me. Heavy metal music: Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, stuff like that. A bit of Judas Priest as well."

#MilanCortina2026
Speed skating champion Francesca Lollobrigida is the great-great grandniece of movie star Gina Lollobrigida.
4th place finisher Joy Beune of the Netherlands posed naked for Playboy in 2024

YouTube video by Sports Illustrated Previewing Every 2026 Winter Olympic Sport

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZc...

@thekenchilds.com Mr Brightside goes up the charts this week as it nears 9 and a half years in the Top 100...

Exactly 10 years ago, Sky Comedy in the UK showed it on a loop for 24 hours

I think the USA-Denmark ice hockey team will not be a fun occasion

Just a little reminder that if you want to check Olympic history and results during the upcoming Winter Olympics then www.Olympedia.org is the place to go

Happy 97th birthday to Vanja Blomberg, the oldest living Swedish Olympic champion and Olympic gymnastics medalist! Blomberg won her prize as a member of the Swedish gymnastics portable apparatus team at the 1952 Helsinki Games, where she was also fourth in the team all-around.

If only everyone was as enthusiastic about his sport as Ken then the world would be a much better place

Exclusive pictures of the Vatican City bobsleigh team hard in training for Milan-Cortina

#Olympics OTD in 1924, curling made its Olympic debut as Sweden beat France 18-10

Gathering momentum

Nearly time...

@andymitchellmedia.bsky.social Andy, sorry to bother but I've found an account of Tom Lavery, the South African hurdler escaping from German custody in WW2, We have him born at "Crowden Beatcross" in December 1911. Any chance that could be a mixed up version of Cowdenbeath?

A quick Olympics thread! 🥇🧵

1️⃣ Thanks to everyone who checked out my OKC 2028 story yesterday. This was a long time in the making and it was fun to see it out in the world.

Do we need to reduce the John Player League to 20/20 format?

Thanks Mitch

Although if you didn't have the money for the gas...

@thekenchilds.com How to get your sled up the mountain in 1924

If I pretended I don't come from a weird ass country, I would be a liar

Devil's Dyke, Sussex - Wikipedia

Devil's Dyke is named after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%2...

Sports de neige et de glace : organe portant les bulletins officiels de la Fédération française de sports d'hiver... Sports de neige et de glace : organe portant les bulletins officiels de la Fédération française de sports d'hiver... -- 1924-02-14 -- fascicules

@thekenchilds.com gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
French report on 4 man bob at the 1st Winter Olympics

Oldest Olympians is saddened to learn that Paddy Kenny, born August 17, 1934, who represented Ireland in the bantamweight boxing tournament at the 1960 Rome Games, died February 1 at the age of 90.

funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/kenny...

Бронза Рима жива! Первому призёру Игр в прыжках в воду из СССР исполнилось 100 лет Старейшая обладательница олимпийской медали празднует юбилей.

Happy 100th birthday to Ninel Krutova, the oldest living Olympic medalist for the Soviet Union! Krutova represented her country in three editions of the Games, 1952-1960, winning bronze on the platform at the last edition.

www.sovsport.ru/sportstory/a...