Reuters Sports News Summary

Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. World body to lift Russia's doping ban

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Friday it would lift the ban on Russian Para athletes by March 15, but only under certain conditions. Russia has been barred from international competitions since August 2016 over allegations of state-sponsored doping similar to the ones that led to the suspension of its athletics federation and anti-doping agency. NHL roundup: Kings end Flyers' streak in shootout

Tyler Toffoli scored in the sixth round of a shootout to lift the visiting Los Angeles Kings past the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Thursday. The first career shootout goal for Toffoli gave the Kings their third win in a row. Austin Wagner and Adrian Kempe each scored in regulation for the Kings. Los Angeles goaltender Jonathan Quick stopped 30 shots through regulation and overtime. Grizzlies offers fond farewell to Gasol

For the first time in his NBA career, the uniform Marc Gasol puts on for his next game will not be the threads of the Memphis Grizzlies. Gasol, informed in January he was on the trading block, was shipped to Toronto at the trade deadline on Thursday. Alpine skiing: Holdener defends women's combined title

Switzerland's Wendy Holdener defended her women's combined title with a strong slalom run at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday. Slovakia's Petra Vlhova took the silver medal, three hundredths of a second slower, with Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel completing the podium. NBA roundup: Westbrook posts eighth straight triple-double

Paul George scored 27 points, and Russell Westbrook recorded his eighth consecutive triple-double as the host Oklahoma City Thunder overwhelmed the Memphis Grizzlies in the second half en route to a 117-95 win Thursday. The win was the Thunder's ninth in 10 games and their fifth consecutive at home. Memphis, playing with a short bench, had its two-game winning streak snapped. Waxed and ready, surfing ready to ride into Tokyo

Like a wave originating thousands of kilometers out in the deep ocean before crashing onto a distant beach, so surfing's inclusion in the Olympic family has had a long fetch. What began with a ripple of interest when Hawaiian surfing icon Duke Kahanamoku first advocated the sport's Olympic inclusion, has become a reality with it debuting in Tokyo next year. Federer chasing titles, not top ranking

Roger Federer is no longer chasing the top ranking and would rather be a contender at Grand Slams than battling Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal to be world number one, the Swiss tennis great said on Friday. The 20-times Grand Slam champion has held back the clock in the twilight of his remarkable career and became the ATP's oldest world number one last year a few weeks after clinching his sixth Australian Open at the age of 36. Olympic spirit back in Sarajevo, bridging ethnic divides

The Olympic spirit is back in Sarajevo after rival Bosnian ethnic elites set aside their differences to host the largest sport event in the country since the 1984 Winter Olympics and war of the 1990s. The Winter European Youth Olympic Festival will open in Sarajevo on Sunday and close a week later in East Sarajevo, a former Serb-run suburb that has become a separate city, in a show of cooperation between the two former foes whose border was a wartime frontline. Ten killed as fire sweeps through Flamengo training center in Rio

A fire swept through the training center and lodgings of Rio de Janeiro soccer club Flamengo on Friday, killing 10 people, including members of the club's youth team, firefighters and news reports said. At least three youths aged 14 and 15 were injured in the blaze. All three were taken to the hospital, one of them reportedly in serious condition. Soccer: French League to pay tribute to Sala with minute's applause

All Ligue 1 and 2 games this weekend will hold a minute's applause before kickoff in memory of former Nantes player Emiliano Sala, whose body has been retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel, the French League said on Friday. Argentine Sala, 28, had been flying from Nantes in western France to Wales on Jan. 21 after signing for Premier League team Cardiff City when the single-engined Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared over the sea.