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            <title><![CDATA[Sweden Keeps Olympic Medal After Court Rejects Doping Appeal]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Doping-convicted biathlete Jevgenij Ustjugov has had his appeal rejected by the highest court in Switzerland. Thus, Sweden gets to keep its relay medals at the Olympic Games and World Championship.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 11:26:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump and Putin Discuss Immediate Ceasefire Talks]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[USA's President Donald Trump describes the phone call with Russia's leader Vladimir Putin as "very good". "Russia and Ukraine will immediately initiate negotiations towards a ceasefire and, what is more important, an END to the war", writes Trump on Truth Social.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 15:02:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Olympic Gold Medalist Ida Ingemarsdotter Joins Swedish Ski Team as Coach]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[With the Olympic Games in Milano and Cortina as the season's major goals, the national cross-country team is sharpening its operations. The World Championship gold team on the women's side remains intact – with the former Olympic gold medalist Ida Ingemarsdotter as a replacement for the dismissed coach Andreas Domeij.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 11:08:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biathlon Chief's Corruption Appeal Begins in Norway Court]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[One year ago, Anders Besseberg was sentenced to prison for gross corruption, despite his denial. Now it's time for the former chairman of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) to have his appeal tried.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:45:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russian Skier Loses Sochi Medals for Doping, Modin Moves Up]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Russian biathlete and cross-country skier Nikolaj Poluchin – a former competitor to Zebastian Modin – is being stripped of three individual medals from the Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014 after violating anti-doping rules.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:48:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[List of Five Other Swedish Relay Achievements]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is something special about relays – not least when the gold goes to Sweden. Here are five other classic blue-yellow triumphs on the ski tracks.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:18:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sundling's feat behind new World Championship gold: "Cannonball"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It was set for a Norwegian relay gold. Then Jonna Sundling stepped into action – and delivered a finish that will go down in skiing history. Sweden's ladies won the World Championship relay in Trondheim.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:36:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Olympic Games for Swedish Snowboard Star]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:11:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Erik Karlsson's bitterness: "Never again"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In two consecutive Olympic Games, NHL has abstained from participating. This makes star defenseman Erik Karlsson feel bitter. Hopefully, it will never happen again for the sake of the younger ones, says the Pittsburgh player ahead of NHL's Olympic comeback.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:11:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin: Angela, forgive me for the dog]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin extends an olive branch to his old antagonist Angela Merkel and apologizes for having brought a dog to their meeting in 2007.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:08:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin offers African countries "total support"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia's president Vladimir Putin promises African countries "total support" at a meeting in Russian Sochi over the weekend.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:30:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Praises Russia – Turns Its Back on France]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia has invited to a high-level meeting with several African countries. The goal is to expand cooperation and the response is positive – at least from one military junta.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:30:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin: Trump is a brave man]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia's president Vladimir Putin congratulates Donald Trump on his victory in the presidential election. This despite Russia previously saying that it was something one shouldn't do since the USA is "a hostile country".]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:08:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Noble was celebrated in his return to Vancouver]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Alexander Edler was hailed one last time when he returned to Vancouver, the NHL club where he played the majority of his career. I am very proud of the tribute, said Edler in a TV interview with Sportsnet during the first intermission.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:53:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin is said to have demolished the Sochi Palace – out of fear]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia's President Vladimir Putin has not visited his residence in Sochi since March. He is too afraid of being hit by a Ukrainian drone, according to an investigation by Russian independent Project.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:15:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Noble Ends Career – in Vancouver]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[He didn't play at all last season. But now, hockey defender Alexander Edler gets a one-day contract with Vancouver to be officially farewell.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:01:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[They will be Swedish flag bearers: "Incredibly proud"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The rider Peder Fredricson and the sailor Josefin Olsson will be Sweden's flag bearers at the OS opening ceremony in Paris. I am incredibly proud and honored. The OS has always been a very great inspiration for me, says Fredricson.]]></description>
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