A leisure centre is offering crash courses for young swimmers as well as rookie lifeguard courses this half term. Sidcup Leisure Centre's intensive, week-long programmes provide a chance for children ...

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Team USA star skier Lindsey Vonn had to be airlifted from a mountain following a crash in a World Cup race, just one week before the Winter Olympics begin in Italy. The Milan Cortina Games commence on ...

Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn’s status for the Winter Olympics is uncertain. While competing in her final downhill event before the upcoming world competition, Vonn crashed on the course and had to be ...

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CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday and was left limping and keeping weight off her left knee — a troublesome ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Livigno: Australian teenager Daisy Thomas has had to withdraw from the women’s slopestyle at the Milano Cortina Olympics after she was ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn’s pursuit of an against-all-odds Olympic medal ended Sunday with a broken left leg following a devastating crash only 13.4 seconds into the downhill final.

A British tourist is stranded in Thailand and pleading for help to pay a £20,000 medical bill after a horrific moped crash left his leg 'hanging off'. Lewis McClelland, 30, is facing the huge cost ...