Winter Olympic sports

Nineteen-year-old alpine ski champion Matilde Lorenzi, a member of the Italian army’s sports division, passed away from injuries sustained during a training accident, the Italian Ministry of Defense announced.

The tragedy occurred in the ski resort of Borovets - The unfortunate Greek was skiing with three other friends - The skiers were off the slope

Ljubljana – As many as 318 accidents were formally reported from Slovenian ski resorts in the 2020/2021 season, involving 322 skiers and snowboarders, according to data posted on the website of the Interior Ministry. 53% of all injured persons were men.

As the cold winter conditions continue to affect Turkey, national figure skating athlete İklim Şentunalı has shown a breathtaking performance on the frozen surface of Lake Çıldır located in the country's northeast.

A winter sports center in Turkey's eastern Erzincan province has become a favorite with local and foreign tourists for its natural trail runs.

The Mount Ergan Winter Sports and Nature Tourism Center offers over 17 kilometers of ski trails which also allow skiing at night.

If the lockdown is extended, physical education teachers and sports professionals will have to put to use all their creativity skills and imagination and think of exercise games for children, said for Horizont Before Noon radio show Joanna Dochevska, Chair of the Management Board of the Association for the Development of Bulgarian Sport.

The lights of the Christmas tree will shine in Plovdiv tonight. For the first time there will be no ceremony to avoid gathering of people.

A Turkish man spends his time under lockdown by sharing visual materials on social media that shed light on the history of ice skating and which he has archived for 64 years.

Fehmi Tekelioğlu's love affair with ice skating started with a frozen pond at a park in the Turkish capital 64 years ago. The year was 1956 and he was 9 years old.

A district municipality in Istanbul has opened an ice rink to provide its fellow citizens skating courses free of charge.