Retiring Shiva Keshavan aims for last hurrah at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Competing in his sixth and last Winter Olympics, pioneer luger Shiva Keshavan wants to overcome a recent injury and end his international career with a flourish during the Pyeongchang Games, starting this week.
Feb 05, 2018, 15:52 PM IST
IOC says no Winter Olympics for Russians who had life bans Lifted
Fifteen Russian athletes and staff who controversially had their life bans for doping lifted last week will not be invited to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday.
Feb 05, 2018, 11:49 AM IST
Trump speaks to Japan's PM, S Korea's President about North Korea
President Donald Trump spoke with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-In and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the upcoming Winter Olympics and the current situation in the Korean peninsula, the White House said today.
Feb 03, 2018, 06:28 AM IST
Olympics: Court of Arbitration for Sport overturns doping ban of 28 Russian athletes
Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans overturned and their results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi reinstated after their appeals were upheld by sport's highest tribunal on Thursday.
Feb 01, 2018, 22:32 PM IST
Shiva Keshavan gets sponsor for Winter Olympics preparation
Just days before featuring in his sixth Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, India's top luger Shiva Keshavan has got a morale booster as he has got assurance from his sponsors of their continued support that will help him prepare for the Games.
Jan 30, 2018, 16:45 PM IST
Winter Olympics 2018: North, South Korea hockey players team up
Female hockey players from the rival Koreas were paired up with each other today to form their first-ever Olympic squad during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Games, as their countries press ahead with rare reconciliation steps following a period of nuclear tensions.
Jan 25, 2018, 18:33 PM IST
Here’s what happened when Kim Jong Un’s 'girlfriend', once rumoured to be executed, arrived in Seoul
She is one of the most mysterious women in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea.
Jan 23, 2018, 07:59 AM IST
North Korea will send 22 athletes to Olympics in South
North Korea will send 22 athletes to next month`s Winter Games in the South, the International Olympic Committee said Saturday, approving a landmark deal between two nations still officially at war.
Jan 20, 2018, 23:10 PM IST
North Korea urges US, S Korea to permanently stop joint military drills
North Korea on Thursday urged the US and South Korea to permanently stop their joint military exercises.
Jan 18, 2018, 22:42 PM IST
Koreas to march under unified flag at Winter Olympics
The two Koreas have also agreed to hold a joint cultural event at Mount Kumgang on the North Korean east coast before the Winter Games.
Jan 17, 2018, 21:21 PM IST
Skier Aanchal Thakur's brother stranded in Frankfurt, seeks government help to get visa for Olympic qualifiers
Racing against time to qualify for next month's Winter Olympics, alpine skier Himanshu Thakur is stranded at the Frankfurt airport and is awaiting Iranian visa clearance for a qualifying event in Darbandsar.
Jan 14, 2018, 20:51 PM IST
North Korea offers talks with South Korea on Winter Olympics art troupe
North Korea proposed a working-level dialogue on January 15 in Tongilgak, a building controlled by North Kora in the truce village of Panmunjom, to discuss the issue.
Jan 13, 2018, 14:55 PM IST
North Korea's 'army of beauties' all set to invade South for Winter Olympics
North Korea recently agreed to send a delegation of athletes for next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea. With them will be a group of cheerleaders for whom this would be their fourth visit to the neighbouring country.
Jan 11, 2018, 08:28 AM IST
Denuclearisation is path to peace: South Korea`s Moon Jae-In
Delegates from North and South Korea held their first official talks for two years on Tuesday at Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the peninsula.
Jan 10, 2018, 07:25 AM IST
North Korea to participate in Winter Olympics in rival South
Seoul and Olympic organisers have been keen for Pyongyang - which boycotted the 1988 Summer Games in the South Korean capital - to take part in what they repeatedly proclaimed a "peace Olympics"
Jan 09, 2018, 20:03 PM IST
Kim Jong Un changes stand, North Korea to participate in Olympics in rival south
North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South, the rivals said on Tuesday after their first formal talks in more than two years following high tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
Jan 09, 2018, 19:21 PM IST
North Korea 'likely' to join Winter Games, says IOC official
The comments by Chang Ung, Pyongyang's representative to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), come a day after the North and South agreed to hold rare talks next week and follow Seoul and Washington's announcement that they would postpone joint military exercises that rile North Korea.
Jan 06, 2018, 14:55 PM IST
Pyongyang to reopen inter-Korean hotline after Seoul proposes talks
North Korea said Wednesday it will reopen a hotline with the South to discuss attending the Winter Olympics, forging ahead with peace overtures despite taunts from US President Donald Trump who said he has a "much bigger" nuclear button than Kim Jong-Un.
Jan 03, 2018, 11:47 AM IST
#NoRussiaNoGames: Twitter 'bots' boost Russian backlash against Olympic ban
President Vladimir Putin dismissed the IOC`s decision, made on Tuesday, as "orchestrated and politically-motivated".
Dec 09, 2017, 14:28 PM IST
North Korea could deal 'fatal blow' to Olympics: South Korea minister
Unification Minister Cho Myoung-Gyon has said that North Korea could deliver a "fatal blow" to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Nov 30, 2017, 13:17 PM IST
