Winter X Games on, but without fans
The 2021 version of the Winter X Games promises lots of flipping and spinning, not so much singing and dancing.
ESPN announced Tuesday that the first major action-sports contest since the COVID -19 pandemic started forcing major cancellations will take place during its usual slot in Aspen, Colo., from Jan. 29-31, but will be closed off to fans.
Among those expected to compete are Chloe Kim, Mark Mcmorris and David Wise, all of whom have missed several events since cancellations scrubbed the late-winter calendar earlier in 2020. They now find themselves facing an uncertain international schedule with only 14 months to get ready for the Beijing Olympics.
Colleges: A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement between Brown University and student-athletes who had chal lenged the Ivy League school’s decision to drop several women’s varsity sports. U.S. District Judge John Mcconnell Jr. signed off on the agreement, ending more than two decades of legal battles centering on gender discrimination in collegiate athletics. The settlement originally announced in September restores the women’s equestrian and women’s fencing teams to varsity status, and calls for an end to a 1998 legal agreement ensuring gender equity in varsity sports at Brown on Aug. 31, 2024. It stemmed from a legal challenge in June to the Providence, R.I. school’s decision to reduce several women’s varsity sports teams to club status. Several men’s sports were also reduced to club status, although some were later restored.
Track and field: The governing body of track and field banned Ahmad Al Kamali, the president of the United Arab Emirates track federation, for six months for giving out watches to prospective voters during his bid for the World Athletics Council vice presidency.