Namkyu Lim of South Korea narrowly misses the touch pad during the International Luge Federation World Championships team relay event in Koenigssee, Germany, January 31, 2021. /CFP

Gu Ailing (Eileen Gu) of China competes on her way to win the X Games Aspen women's ski slopestyle final at Buttermilk Mountain, Colorado, U.S., January 30, 2021. /CFP

The only funambulist specialized in high altitude tightrope walking in Italy, Andrea Loreni, performs on a steel rope 25 meters above the ground between two towers of a disused factory in Turin, Italy, January 29, 2021. /CFP

France's Renaud Lavillenie competes en route to winning the pole-vault event at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Karlsruhe, Germany, January 29, 2021. /CFP

Prior to the NBA game between Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Clippers, a member of staff walks Happy, a COVID-19 detection dog, past a line of fans. Miami Heat are allowing up to 2,000 fans inside the stadium for the first time since the pandemic, in Miami, U.S., January 28, 2021. /CFP

To mark the one-year countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, ski lovers join an initiative to ski around a giant Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games banner in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, January 27, 2021. /CFP

India's top female badminton player Pusarla V. Sindhu attempts a shot during the Badminton World Federation World Tour Finals match in Nonthaburi, Thailand, January 27, 2021. /CFP

Cars speed by in front of a mural painted in tribute to Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant after their deaths one year ago, Los Angeles, U.S., January 26, 2021. /CFP

To prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Florian Wellbrock, a member of the German national team and 2019 World Champion over 1500 meters freestyle and 10 kilometers open water swimming, swims in a flow passage during a technique analysis session at the Institute for Applied Training Science, Leipzig, Germany, January 26, 2021. /CFP