SEOUL: South Korea plans to propose a joint hosting of the 2032 Summer Olympics with North Korea at next week’s summit in Pyongyang, sports minister Do Jong-hwan said Wednesday, according to a Yonhap…
Tennis champion Sania Mirza believes that pregnancy won’t end her career and she aims to resume her game after the birth of her baby. Mirza says that she wants to set an…
BERLIN: IOC chief Thomas Bach insisted Thursday that violent computer games would never be part of the Olympics as he faces growing pressure to allow eSports into the Olympic movement. Bach said…
PYONGYANG: Kim Jong Un is committed to sending North Korean teams to the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, IOC Chief Thomas Bach said Saturday after a rare meeting with the leader of the…
ISLAMABAD: The federal police Olympics were inaugurated Monday at a ceremony held at Police Line Headquarters. Deputy Inspector General Headquarters NasiPoliceood Satti inaugurated the police Olympics. Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Farrukh Rashid,…
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea: Krushelnitsky, who won bronze with his wife in the mixed doubles at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday, is suspected of testing positive for meldonium. Traces of meldonium, a heart…
GANGNEUNG: The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has cancelled plans for a mobile prayer room in Gangneung for tourists at the 2018 Winter Olympics after strong opposition by anti-Muslim campaigners, the city tourism department’s chief…
SEOUL/PYEONGCHANG: US Vice President Mike Pence made only a brief appearance at a reception marking the start of the Winter Olympics on Friday, avoiding a potentially awkward encounter with the ceremonial leader…
SEOUL: Elite downhill racers will strap on their skis at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics aware of the risks but sometimes in denial about the real dangers despite two deaths in the run-up…
SEOUL: A North Korean ferry is set to arrive in South Korea on Tuesday carrying a 140-strong orchestra to perform at the Winter Olympics this week, taking advantage of a rare sanctions…
VATICAN CITY: Some go for gold. Others go for God. For the first time, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has invited the Vatican to send a delegation to its general meeting next…
SEOUL: North Korea has warned if the United States goes ahead with delayed military exercises with South Korea after the Winter Olympics it will not “sit idle”, the North’s foreign minister said…
NUKUʻALOFA: Pita Taufatofua captured global attention as Tonga’s oiled and topless flagbearer at the Rio Olympics, but he says things didn’t get really weird until he decided to qualify for the Winter…
SEOUL: In tropical Malaysia and Singapore, Winter Olympics medals are rarer than snowflakes – but a dedicated group of athletes is hoping to change that as they make their countries’ debut Games…
SEOUL: Female hockey players from the rival Koreas were paired up with each other Thursday to form their first-ever Olympic squad during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Games, as their countries press ahead…
CHICAGO: John Geddert — the coach of the US women’s 2012 London Olympics gold medal team — has been suspended by USA Gymnastics pending completion of an investigation by the sport governing…
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he would attend the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea next month, after reports he would not attend due to a dispute over “comfort…
