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Livigno: The biggest challenge Indra Brown had to face when she made her World Cup debut in December wasn’t the 22-foot halfpipe she had to negotiate, nor the field of elite talent she had to battle against.

Indra Brown (right) wins bronze in her first world cup start. Eileen Gu (centre) won gold. Credit: Getty

By finishing third at the Secret Garden Resort in China in her first start, becoming the youngest Australian snow sport medallist, Brown was handed a bottle of bubbly to celebrate, as is customary. The problem was she was 15 years old, and had no idea how to open it.

'Champagne moment, adorable': Free skiing's $30m megastar lifts lid on her kind podium gesture for Aussie prodigy Indra Brown

The 22-year-old American-born Chinese two-time Olympic gold medallist often talks about having "the weight of two countries on my back" but she has a constantly sunny disposition.

She is still very young, yet speaks eloquently about being dragged into geopolitical conflict due to her decision as a teenager to compete for China despite having a deep appreciation for all the things growing up in the US gave her.

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Gu is already one of the greatest free skiers of all-time and is fiercely competitive, yet she puts her biggest disappointments behind her with grace and humility then speaks to the hungry media for hours after competitions.

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February 17, 2026
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Is Russia competing at the Milano Cortina Olympics?

The Russian Olympic Committee competed in Beijing, but has not been permitted to since. (Getty Images: picture alliance/Robert Michael)

Another Olympic Games. Another festival of sport without Russia or Belarus.

As was the case in Paris two years ago, there will be no sign of the Russian or Belarusian flag, name or colours at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

But there will be a handful of athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports competing in northern Italy.

Russia was banned from the Olympics in October 2023, 20 months after the invasion of Ukraine that took place in the days after the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Winter Olympics 2026: Russian athletes linked to pro-war activity

Savelii Korostelev, Kseniia Korzhova and Petr Gumennik are set to compete as neutral athletes at the Milan-Cortina Games

Several Russian athletes approved to compete as neutrals at the Winter Olympics have links to activity supporting the war in Ukraine, according to evidence seen by BBC Sport.

The International Olympic Committee has cleared 13 competitors, external from Russia to participate as Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) in Milan-Cortina.

Their eligibility was assessed by a three-person IOC panel, external, with athletes deemed ineligible if they were found to have actively supported the war, including through social media activity or participation in pro-war events.

However, material shared with the BBC by the Molfar Intelligence Institute, external and investigative journalist Artem Khudolieiev raises questions over whether some of those approved meet the IOC's broadly-framed criteria.

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What country is AIN in the Olympics, and why can't Russia compete as ROC in the 2026 Winter Games?

As the 2026 Winter Olympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony, at least a dozen athletes will represent AIN.

The three-letter acronym isn't an abbreviation of a country delegation — its athletes are tied to Russia, whose nation's flag will not be present following a series of doping scandals and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

AIN athletes will also include competitors from Belarus, which was banned as a country in Paris 2024 over its involvement in the war.

AIN is an acronym of the French term "Athlètes Individuels Neutres," meaning "Individual Neutral Athletes." French is one of the two official languages of the Olympic Games, along with English.

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February 7, 2026
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Who is competing in the 2026 United Cup? In which group will their country be competing and where?

View below the full list of groups, countries and players for the mixed-teams event, which will be played across Perth and Sydney from 2-11 January.

The players shown are for illustrative purposes only. Qualification and participation subject to ATP rules.

Players may withdraw due to injury, illness or other grounds. Photographs courtesy of Getty Images and ATP tournament.

Australia tennis schedule: Osaka vs. Sakkari headlines opening day at United Cup

And just like that, the 2026 tennis season is here, with action beginning Friday in Perth as Spain faces Argentina to open the United Cup before Maria Sakkari meets Naomi Osaka in the marquee evening matchup between Greece and Japan.

If it’s a new year dawning Down Under, you can be sure it’s time for those irresistible images of tennis players snapping selfies with all manner of indigenous marsupials.

In Perth, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu cavorted with the quokkas — in terms of pure, unadulterated cuteness, perhaps the most underrated of the marsupials — on Rottnest Island.

“It’s amazing to see a quokka for the first time,” Raducanu said. “I wish I could have stayed longer.”

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January 3, 2026
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Who is competing in the 2026 United Cup? In which group will their country be competing and where?

View below the full list of groups, countries and players for the mixed-teams event, which will be played across Perth and Sydney from 2-11 January.

The players shown are for illustrative purposes only. Qualification and participation subject to ATP rules.

Players may withdraw due to injury, illness or other grounds. Photographs courtesy of Getty Images and ATP tournament.

Australia tennis schedule: Osaka vs. Sakkari headlines opening day at United Cup

And just like that, the 2026 tennis season is here, with action beginning Friday in Perth as Spain faces Argentina to open the United Cup before Maria Sakkari meets Naomi Osaka in the marquee evening matchup between Greece and Japan.

If it’s a new year dawning Down Under, you can be sure it’s time for those irresistible images of tennis players snapping selfies with all manner of indigenous marsupials.

In Perth, Naomi Osaka and Emma Raducanu cavorted with the quokkas — in terms of pure, unadulterated cuteness, perhaps the most underrated of the marsupials — on Rottnest Island.

“It’s amazing to see a quokka for the first time,” Raducanu said. “I wish I could have stayed longer.”

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United We Start: What to watch for at the season-opening United Cup

Iga Swiatek readies for her first shot at the career Slam in Australia, as Coco Gauff brings a retooled serve to a U.S. title defense.

📲🖥️ Bookmark for 2026: Stream the United Cup on the Tennis Channel App!

For the fourth year, tennis kicks off its 11-month schedule with the United Cup in Australia. The event began, in 2023, as a hopeful model of gender unity, in a sport that hasn’t had a ton of it over the decades. Since then, it has established itself as a table-setting tournament that balances camaraderie with competition and showcases both tours in one place.

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