Alpine skier Ilka Štuhec and snowboarder Žan Košir will be Slovenia's flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games on 4 February, the Slovenian Olympic Committee said on Monday.
Slovenia's Anže Lanišek scored two second place finishes in the men's Ski Jumping World Cup event in Germany's Titisee-Neustadt on Saturday and Sunday, with German Karl Geiger outclassing him both times. This was the third podium finish for the 25-year-old in a row in the current season and the 11th career podium finish.
Slovenia's Anže Lanišek won second place in the men's Ski Jumping World Cup event in Germany's Titisee-Neustadt on Saturday, finishing behind Karl Geiger of Germany and ahead of Germany's Markus Eisenbichler.
Ljubomir Vranješ has been sacked as the head coach of the national handball team after Slovenia failed to make it past the preliminary round at the European Handball Championship.
Many Slovenian cities and towns are twinned with cities all over China, with the oldest link being between Ljubljana and Chengdu, lasting over 40 years, and the most recent one being the twinning of Kranj and Zhangjiakou, one of the host cities of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in China.
Slovenia will be fielding a total of 41 athletes at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, a group featuring a number of established Olympians as well as some potential dark horses. Based on the season so far, the women's and men's ski jumping teams are seen as having the best chance of winning an Olympic medal.
The Slovenian men's handball team lost 32:33 to Montenegro to end their European Championship campaign in the group stage in Hungary's Debrecen on Monday, placing third in Group A.