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Žan Kranjec wins silver in Olympic men’s giant slalom

Published by The Slovenia Times on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 23:52

Beijing – Slovenia’s Žan Kranjec won silver in the Olympic men’s giant slalom on Sunday, in what is his first Olympic medal and the sixth for Slovenia at the Beijing Olympics. Swiss Marco Odermatt won gold 19 hundredths of a second ahead of Kranjec, with France’s Mathieu Faivre finishing third.

Show based on Slovenian scientist experience played at New York festival

Published by The Slovenia Times on Sun, 11/14/2021 - 00:14

New York – The Cell, a theatre in New York, US, is hosting from Friday to Sunday Science in Theatre Festival, whose artistic director Tjaša Ferme, a Slovenian actress and producer, says brings science out of the closet offering a platform for the general public to get to know it better.

French biathletes win single mixed relay in Pokljuka

Published by The Slovenia Times on Fri, 02/19/2021 - 07:26

Pokljuka – France’s Antonin Guigonnat and Julia Simon are the winners of Thursday’s single mixed relay event as part of the Biathlon World Championships in Slovenia’s Pokljuka. The Slovenian pair of Jakov Fak and Polona Klemenčič were 13th.

The silver medal went to Johannes Thingnes Boe and Tiril Eckhoff of Norway, and Sweden’s Sebastian Samuelsson and Hanna Öberg won bronze.