ahead to one of the big events of 2022, the winter olympics in beijing, with former ski racer chemmy alcottus her tips for team gb. hello, and welcome along to sportsday. we're ending the year with yet another game of football called off due to covid. the latest fixture to fall is sunday's match between southampton and newcastle at st mary's. eddie howe�*s side are unable to fulfil the fixture because of covid cases and injuries in the sqaud. their match at everton on thursday had already been postponed because of the issues, issues that many football clubs across the leagues have been facing all month. ourfootball reporter simon stone has more. this had been kind of flagged up by eddie howell earlier this week when he suggested that newcastle were struggling for players after the united game. they had a midweek match called off and i think it was just a matter of time in the premier league agreeing to end a request from newcastle. so that brings to 17 now games that have been called off across six match rounds going back into the middle of december. the premier league obviously are trying