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Latvian Television (LTV) and Latvian Radio (LR) have sent their reporters to Paris to cover the Olympic Games, which start on Friday, July 26.
Daugava Stadium's reconstructed central sports ground has been put into operation and is open to everyone as of July 22, the Ministry of Education and Science said.
The World Rally Championship (WRC) stage has concluded in Latvia. The leading local crew Mārtiņš Sesks/Renārs Francis finished in 7th place, having dropped out of the top three in the final metres of the rally due to technical problems.
After Saturday's stages in the World Rally Championship in Latvia, local pairing Mārtiņš Sesks and Renārs Francis (M-Sport Ford) are in third place.
Latvian rally driver Mārtiņš Sesks recorded his first ever stage win in the World Rally Championship (WRC) July 19 – appropriately enough on home soil.
From July 18 to 21, Latvia will host for the first time in its history rally drivers of the highest caliber, who will compete in stages in Rīga, Liepāja, Tukums, Talsi, Kuldīga, and South Kurzeme in the World Rally Championship (WRC).
The trucks and trailers of the World Rally Championship (WRC) arrive in Latvia this week for a stage of the major motorsport series. From July 18 to 21, Latvia will host a round of the WRC for the first time ever.
Flagbearers of the Latvian delegation at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics will be 3X3 basketball player Nauris Miezis and beach volleyball player Tīna Laura Graudiņa, the Latvian Olympic Committee announced July 15.
Latvia will be represented by 29 athletes at the Paris Olympics, the Latvian Olympic Committee (LOK) announced on Monday, July 8.
The basketball players of the Latvian national team lost 69:94 to the Brazilian national team in the final of the qualification tournament of the Olympic Games in Rīga on Sunday, July 7.
In the Paris Olympics qualification tournament, the Latvian men's national basketball team lost 80:89 to the Philippines in the last game of the group round on Wednesday in Riga.
Latvia managed a good basketball win over Georgia July 2, with head coach Luca Banchi particularly impressed by the home crowd's support in a match that forms part of the qualification tournament for the Paris Olympics.
Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued an open invitation to members of the public who might be interested in participating in a 12 kilometer fun run with a NATO theme.
Latvian basketball star Kristaps Porziņģis added another trophy to his cabinet and a feather to his cap June 17 by becoming the first Latvian ever to win an NBA crown in the United States.
Production is under way on a new documentary film about the best-known Latvian alpinist in the global mountaineering community – Teodors Ķirsis and his legendary team who conquered the world's highest peaks after the restoration of the country's independence.
Žanuels Skopenko, former striker of Valmiera football club and Latvian U-19 national indoor football team, has died at the age of 24, the Latvian Football Federation (LFF) reports. Latvian Television reported on June 6 that Skopenko was stabbed in the Netherlands and later died in hospital.
On Tuesday, June 4, Raimonds Lazdiņš, the former vice-president of the Latvian Handball Federation, took office as President of the Latvian Olympic Committee (LOK).
The World Ice Hockey Championship continues on Thursday with the quarter-finals, but the Latvian national team returned home late on Wednesday night after finishing the tournament in the group round in the Czech Republic.
The Latvian national ice hockey team lost 3:6 to the USA in the last game of the group round in Ostrava on Tuesday and lost their chance to qualify for the quarter-finals of the World Championship. The Latvian national team finished the championship in 9th place.
Tuesday, May 21 is another red-letter day in Latvian hockey history with a game versus the United States set to decide if the national team is homeward bound or will stay in the Czech Republic for the knockout stages of the IIHF World Championships.
Large parts of Latvia will grind to a halt again Tuesday with the country's ice hockey team taking on the United States at the IIHF World Championships in the Czech Republic.
The Latvian national ice hockey team defeated Slovakia 3:2 in the last but one match of the group round on Sunday to keep their hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the World Championship alive.
The Latvian national ice hockey team will play their penultimate game in the group stages of the IIHF world championship on Sunday evening against Slovakia, wth a win a must to stand a chance of progressing to the latter stages of the tournament.
Sunday May 19 sees the Rīga Marathon, half-marathon and 5-kilometer distances all taking place in the Latvian capital.
The Latvian national ice hockey team lost 2:7 against Sweden on Saturday in Ostrava in their fifth game in the World Championship.
More than 33,000 runners will take part in the "Rimi" Riga Marathon this weekend, and the World Running Championships, which were held in Rīga last year, play a significant role in the increase in the number of participants, Aigars Nords, the head of the event's organizing team, told Latvian Television on Friday.
The Latvian national ice hockey team painfully lost to Germany (8:1) on Wednesday in Ostrava in their fourth game in the World Championship.
On May 18 and 19, the most ambitious grassroots sports event in the Baltics, the Rimi Riga Marathon, will bring together more than 30,000 running enthusiasts from almost 100 countries, including top-ranking professionals
The Latvian national ice hockey team beat Kazakhstan (2:0) on Tuesday in Ostrava, winning their third game in the World Championship.
The Latvian national ice hockey team beat France 3:2 in extra time on Sunday in Ostrava, winning their second game in the World Championship.
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