#TrackAndField very odd doping case listed in the AIU March list this week. Hungarian racewalker Viktória Madarász has had 2 months of results in 2017 voided, 3 months in 2021 and 3 months in 2024 are also disqualified. She's also banned until December 2029. No reason given. ???
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...
@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
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
@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...
