Empathy, yes, but Tokyo pulling off its Games in a pandemic this summer would create more certainty that Beijing s 2022 Winter Games will go ahead six months later. It is like a test event for our Olympics, Kripps said. You can really confidently go into the Beijing Games if you had the Tokyo Games executed, and hopefully everything goes really well.
Beijing s Winter Olympics open exactly one year from Thursday, Feb. 4, 2022, followed by the Paralympic Winter Games a month later.
Beijing has more time for the world to tame the virus, or to adopt Tokyo s adaptations if it can t. I just hope for a normal Olympic Games, said two-time Olympic moguls champion Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que.
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Mikael Kingsbury, of Canada, competes during the qualifications for men s skiing moguls at the world championships Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, in Park City, Utah. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Rick Bowmer January 28, 2021 - 7:24 AM
CALGARY - A place that gives Mikael Kingsbury confidence is doing it again, but for different reasons.
The reigning men s Olympic and world moguls champion from Deux-Montagnes, Que., is fine-turning his comeback from back fractures in Calgary ahead of his planned return to competition next week.
Kingsbury has won World Cup gold in Calgary nine times over the last decade, and placed second the lone time he didn t.
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Mikael Kingsbury, of Canada, front, races in the finals against Benjamin Cavet, of France, during the World Cup men s freestyle dual moguls skiing event Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Park City, Utah. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Jeff Swinger January 07, 2021 - 10:49 AM
Calgary is making a pitch to be the host city of the world freestyle ski and snowboard championships next month if public health authorities approve it.
Calgary would be a substitute site. The world championships scheduled Feb. 18-28 in China were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The international governing body of skiing and snowboard has Calgary tentatively scheduled as host of the world championship Feb. 24 to March 11, but the federal, provincial and municipal governments have yet to give the green light.
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