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Making love last! After one year of dating, Shaun White and Nina Dobrev’s relationship is stronger than ever — from managing long-distance schedules, renovating their home and more romantic milestones.

CL has shed some light on her hiatus from music, admitting that it was “the hardest thing” she has had to do.The musician recently spoke to W Magazine about how her break from music, which she took following her solo performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics, had been both rewarding and challenging for her.“I was working since, I don’t know, 15 or something, constantly,” CL noted, referencing her time as a 2NE1 member since the group’s debut in 2009 and the beginning of her solo career in 2013.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Northern Italian city of Turin will host the upcoming 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2022, Italian state broadcaster RAI has revealed.Turin — which hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics and will be hosting the upcoming Nitto ATP Tennis finals in November — beat out Milan and Rome, among other Italian cities, in the bid to be chosen by the European Broadcasting Union as the first Italian city to host Eurovision after more than 30 years.

It’s almost here! The 2022 Beijing Olympics are set to begin in February, just six months after the Tokyo Games concluded.

UPDATE: Chinese citizens will be the only ones permitted to buy tickets to the upcoming Winter Olympics, according to a ruling today by the International Olympic Committee.

All athletes must be vaccinated against Covid-19 to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Wednesday.

All but a handful of ads on next February’s Super Bowl on NBC have been sold, fetching as much as $6.5 million for 30 seconds, according to the latest report from NBCUniversal ad execs.

Christopher Dean has taken to Twitter to share a very rare family photo with fans. The Dancing on Ice judge - who won gold with Jayne Torvill at the 1984 Winter Olympics - posted a snapshot showing him with his youngest son, Sam."Birthday boy.

Using his time to make a difference! Gus Kenworthy has been known as both an athlete and an activist ever since the world first met him.

Jacques Rogge was the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013.During his youth, Rogge was an athlete in his home country of Belgium. He was a national champion in rugby as well as a sailor, who represented Belgium in sailing the Summer Olympics of 1968, 1972, and 1976.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have officially closed!

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Lu Chuan will be the lead director of the opening ceremony for the upcoming 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou city, an international sports spectacle taking place months after the Beijing Winter Olympics.Held every four years, the games will occur from Sept. 10 to 25 in the verdant capital of Zhejiang province, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.

Rebecca Davis editorLast month, to fete the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party, China broadcast a propaganda megashow convened at Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Throughout the massive two-hour spectacle, Olympic themes intertwined with political imagery to depict the party as a benevolent, beloved world leader.

The summer and winter Olympic games usually have two years in between as a break, however, this year is different.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese TikTok rival Kuaishou has sub-licensed the rights to the two next Olympic Games from state broadcaster CCTV, making it the first short video and livestreaming platform globally to become an official broadcaster of the Olympics.The deal comes a few weeks after Chinese tech giant Tencent also struck a deal with CCTV for official streaming rights.Kuaishou secured the short-form rights to both the upcoming Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in a deal

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorPicture Tree Intl. has acquired the rights to “Chasing the Line,” which follows the fortunes of downhill skiing legend Franz Klammer during the 1976 Winter Olympics.

said earlier this month the games should be canceled due to the very real risk of causing a new COVID-19 outbreak. And a Reuters poll found that 70% of Japanese companies agree.

The 2022 Academy Awards have a new date!

If you were hoping the Oscars might be returning to an earlier date next year you can probably blame the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl for making you wait, but we’ll get to that.

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday confirmed that it is weighing the possibility of a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics, set to be held in Beijing, China.

Bibian Mentel was a snowboarder who won three gold medals at the Paralympic Winter Games after losing part of her leg to cancer.Mentel was a Dutch snowboarding champion before her illness, winning the national championship six times. She was preparing to compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City when she injured her ankle.

direct to your inboxHost Phillip Schofield made a blunder in last night's Dancing on Ice final as he got the name of one of the pro-skaters mixed up.Former Coronation Street star Faye Brookes and radio DJ Sonny Jay were the final two in the ITV skating show.They were tasked with performing the iconic Bolero, Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill's Winter Olympics winning skate. Following Sonny's performance, Phillip asked how they felt performing the final dance of the series.

direct to your inboxThis year's dramatic series of Dancing on Ice ended in victory for Capital Radio DJ Sonny Jay.Sonny and his professional skating partner Angela Egan lifted the trophy after a final showdown with former Coronation Street star Faye Brookes and her partner Matt Evers.The pairs recreated Jayne Torville and Christopher Dean's legendary Bolero routine which won gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Mark Pavelich was an NHL player who was a star of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, who beat the Soviet Union in an upset known as the “Miracle on Ice.”Pavelich played college hockey at the University of Minnesota Duluth before being selected for the U.S.

direct to your inboxThey brought home an Olympic gold medal 37 years ago, and ice skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are continuing to won audiences today on Dancing On Ice.But Jayne, 56, and Christopher, 62, are aware it won’t be long before the pair will have to hang up their skates for good.The pair became instant icons when they won gold at the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVLolo Jones certainly knows how to make lemonade out of lemons.The former Olympian was deep into training for the 2020 Olympics, “in one of my best physical shapes,” she tells Variety, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and those games got postponed. Rather than fall behind in her regimen, she pivoted to focus on training to be a part of the United States’ bobsled team at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Champion ice-dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue and violinist Lara St. John are among 114 athletes, artists, scholars and community leaders named to the Order of Canada on Friday.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAngela Ruggiero, a sports-business entrepreneur and a four-time Olympic ice-hockey player, will join the board of directors of TheScore, the mobile-focused sports-media company that has placed emphasis on both sports content and sports betting.Ruggiero is CEO and co-founder of Sports Innovation Lab, a market-research firm and a medal winner in four successive Winter Olympics as a member of theUnited States Women’s National Ice Hockey Team.  In 2015 she became

Every four years at the Winter Olympics, everybody pretends that they're experts in figure skating, befouling Twitter with gripes that a skater who did a clean routine (usually an American, if we're being honest) lost to somebody who fell down twice — ignoring that said skater (usually a Russian) did like 17 quadruple jumps or something.

Reese Witherspoon and Billie Eilish, to head up their graphic design.The list of 26 athletes and entertainers who have designed logos for LA28 includes a few more logical choices, like Olympians Adam Rippon and Gabby Douglas and actual artists like Alex Israel. (If you count tattoo artists in the latter category, there’s also the celebrity-beloved Dr.

Please please PLEASE take a moment and listen to the new Jessie Ware album, if you haven’t yet! We would not steer you in the wrong direction!

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “The Bachelor” franchise has had 40 seasons of its two flagship dating shows and spawned a number of spinoffs from “Bachelor in Paradise” to the raunchier “Bachelor Pad” to a romantic singing competition show and even a Winter Olympics-inspired series. All of those shows have one thing in common, which is the cast members are typically in their 20s.

#RIP https://t.co/EuNhIJBqwSAt the time I met Alex Pullin I must admit I had no idea who he was . I was sitting next to him in airport .

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior Correspondent“The Bachelor” franchise has had 40 seasons of its two flagship dating shows and spawned a number of spinoffs from “Bachelor in Paradise” to the raunchier “Bachelor Pad” to a romantic singing competition show and even a Winter Olympics-inspired series. All of those shows have one thing in common, which is the cast members are typically in their 20s.

Not holding back. Matt Lauer fired back at Ronan Farrow in a lengthy op-ed after his reporting on the former Today anchor’s alleged sexual misconduct was questioned by The New York Times.

No summer romance! The Bachelor: Summer Games has been canceled by ABC, Us Weekly can confirm.