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One down, five to go - it’s not over yet! Hopes running high at the Freestyling Skiing World Championships with Aleksandra Król our No.1

The ten day championship (February 1-10) at Deer Valley and Park City in the US features snowboardcross, skicross and parallel snowboard racing, with neck-bending turns and aerial evolutions. /PAP/EPA

Despite an early loss, Aleksandra is leading the charge at the 10-day-championship in the US. It will also feature one of the most successful comebacks in Polish sport with the return of Karolina Riemen-Żerebecka.

Pole Europe's candidate for World Anti-Doping Agency head

Polish Sport and Tourism Minister Witold Bańka was elected on Wednesday as Europe's candidate for the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

‘I’m off!’ Veteran swimmer says NO to coaching Malaysian squad over Israeli visa row

Bartosz Kizierowski, who represented Poland four times at the Olympics, said he had turned down the offer and that there was no room for discrimination in sport, following Malaysia’s refusal to issue visas for Israeli athletes.

Thank God its Piątek! Krzysztof ‘The Pistol’ scores twice in spectacular 2-0 opener for AC Milan

Both goals from striker Krzysztof Piątek, whose surname means Friday, came in the first half. The first an angled shot into the corner of the net after a long pass had put him through the defence, while for the second he split two defenders with a stunning shot that sent the home crowd wild.

Battling storms, loneliness and CANCER, 52 years ago this week Leonid Teliga became first Pole to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe in boat

Setting sail from Casablanca on 25 January 1967, when he arrived in Dakar 165 days later, he had broken the world record for an uninterrupted solo ocean-going journey.

Racing champ Kubica says F1 comeback is like ‘debuting anew’ as he poses for selfie with new sponsors Orlen

F1 ace tells fans he is “ready” as Orlen boss says two-year sponsorship deal “makes business sense and will have business effects.”

Adam ‘Babyface’ Kownacki pummels his way to victory in just FOUR minutes at New York boxing gala

Kownacki unleashed a barrage of 35 punches per minute, battering 37-year-old Gerald Washington into submission.

Back of the net! Striker Piątek signs to AC Milan for record 35 million euros

The move from Genoa to AC Milan is a huge leap for the lad from Dzierżoniów in south-west Poland, who up until last year was playing in the Polish league.

Bad weather forces Iceboat comp to move over 100 boats from Estonia to Poland by ROAD in just 24 hours

Strong winds, heavy snow and huge snowdrifts have left organisers no choice but to move the event to Poland where conditions are better.

Grandad who has 11 full Ironman Triathlons and 24-hour marathons under his belt now plans to be Ironman WORLD CHAMPION

Marek Musiał, who repairs broken pianos for a living, trains for 3-6 hours a day and has already taken part in three Ironman World Championships.

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Top 5 articles:

  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Oldest bones ever found in Poland dating back 115,000 years belonged to Neanderthal child whose fingers were ‘chewed by a giant bird’
  • Polish women among the most entrepreneurial in EU
  • Lost village 2,000 years old found hidden in dense ‘virgin’ forest
  • Hollywoods’s first femme fatale would be 122 today. And she was Polish!

Events

  • 26/10 - 17/03 Stunning ‘never-before-seen’ art goes on show at Independence exhibition
  • 27/10 - 17/03 Exhibition "Young Poland. Polish Fin de Siecle Art "
  • 15/01 - 05/05 Exhibition commemorating Stanisław Wyspiański
  • 19/02 The Berlin Philharmonic to perform in Poland in February
  • 03/07 ‘Vocal countertenor sensation’ Philippe Jaroussky is to perform in Poland in 2019.

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Silent witness: The incredible tale of a 60s supermodel, a German aristocrat, a plot to kill Hitler and a crumbling 300-year-old palace

Behind the walls of this dilapidated old palace in a remote corner of Poland, lies one of the lesser-known intrigues of the 20th century. Left to ruin after WWII, the race is now on to save Sztynort palace. TFN’s Kirsty Hardial and Dagmara Leszkowicz go on the trail of the place that time forgot.

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