Winter Sports

Winter Olympian Shiva Keshavan eyes one of two vacant spots in IOC's Athletes' Commission

Keshavan has been approved as one of the 17 candidates to fill in two vacant places of the IOC's Athletes Commission after the world body's executive board meeting in Athens on Saturday.

Marco Odermatt wins grand slalom World Cup, ends 10-year Swiss drought

Odermatt became the first GS winner from Switzerland since Carlo Janka, who was the reigning overall champion when he won in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, in March 2011.

Another test event for Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 called off due to COVID-19

The decision comes just days after luge officials also canceled that sport’s season-ending World Cup and training week on the track built in Yanqing.

'I am not going to leave': Ice skater Vishwaraj Jadeja on pursuing a winter sport amid various challenges

India's top ice skater Vishwaraj Jadeja speaks on challenges of pursuing a winter sport in Netherlands in the last 12 years.

Coronavirus Outbreak: For some bobsled hopefuls, the Olympics may be a click away

USABS already has gotten dozens of serious candidates involved, through Zoom video conferences with coaches and established athletes and past bobsled and skeleton Olympians.

Lone ranger Shiva Keshavan plans to get luge off the blocks in new role

With no fixed tenure, no office space, no staff, and no infrastructure, Shiva Keshavan has a clean, even if scratchy, slate to begin, but then, walking alone has never been a problem for him.

Firstpost Masterclass: Luge legend Shiva Keshavan deconstructs the science, technique, and mindset behind his art

What is luge and what challenges does it entail? How does one slide on ice at 150 kmph and battle G forces at the same time? How to excel in a sport that is measured to one-thousandth of a second? India's lone luge exponent Shiva Keshavan breaks down his sport in this edition of Firstpost Masterclass

Luge racer Shiva Keshavan in talks with a 'couple of state governments' over establishing winter sports academy in India

Shiva Keshavan, the first Indian representative to compete in luge at the Winter Olympics, is aiming to build an academy to nurture talented youngsters and is in talks with a couple of state governments.

Jammu and Kashmir's Gulmarg to host five-day national winter games tournament as part of Khelo India programme

Sports secretary Sarmad Hafeez reviewed arrangements for the winter games with concerned departments and stakeholders, an official spokesman said

Researchers have invented a new device that converts snow into electricity

Generating electricity using snow is now possible using a very tiny device.