Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

Russia's Nadezhda Sergeyeva kicked out of Winter Olympics for doping

Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeyeva has been banned from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics after failing a doping test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Saturday.

Feb 24, 2018, 14:09 PM IST

Russian curler stripped of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics medal for doping

"The athlete has admitted the anti-doping rule violation; he is disqualified from the mixed doubles curling event," CAS said in a statement.

Feb 22, 2018, 19:50 PM IST

Gold for Chloe Kim and Marcel Hirscher as first doping case rocks Pyeongchang Olympics

Japan's short-track speed skater Kei Saito, 21, was at the centre of the first doping scandal in Pyeongchang after testing positive for a banned diuretic.

Feb 13, 2018, 23:29 PM IST

Be my Olympic Valentine - Pyeongchang becomes dating hotspot

Competitors and support staff have put their profiles on dating/hook-up app Tinder, along with visiting journalists and many others in South Korea for the Olympics.

Feb 13, 2018, 17:19 PM IST

Shiva Keshavan retires from luge with 34th-place finish in Winter Olympics

India's winter sports poster boy Shiva Keshavan on Sunday brought the curtain down on a two-decade international career with a 34th-place finish in the men's luge singles event of the Winter Olympics here.

Feb 11, 2018, 20:41 PM IST

Korean unity, historic handshake at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opening ceremony

The two Koreas marched together and South Korea's president shared a historic handshake with Kim Jong Un's sister.

Feb 09, 2018, 20:12 PM IST

At Pyeongchang Winter Olympics' reception, a hopeful dessert and a hasty exit

At an Olympic dinner reception designed to break the ice between two nations still technically at war, the dessert said it all. Dark chocolate tempered in the shape of barbed wire lay over a map of the Korean peninsula rendered in thin blue chocolate, a representation of the heavily militarised border that separates Games host South Korea and its old enemy in the North.

Feb 09, 2018, 20:05 PM IST

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics: 47 dope-tainted Russian athletes lose appeal to participate

Forty-seven Russians implicated in doping lost a last-minute court bid to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday, just hours before the opening ceremony.

Feb 09, 2018, 14:06 PM IST

Norway Winter Olympics team accidentally orders 15,000 eggs in Pyeongchang

Egg sandwiches. Bacon and eggs. Egg salad. Eggs on toast. Scrambled eggs, or fried. After taking receipt of 15,000 eggs instead of the 1,500 they wanted, Norway's team at this month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics may have a pretty limited menu.

Feb 09, 2018, 13:55 PM IST

Indian flag raised at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Village

A day before the beginning of the Winter Olympics, the Indian flag was raised at the Games Village at a formal team welcome ceremony. Luger Shiva Keshavan, Indian contingent's chef-de-mission Harjinder Singh and the mayor of the Games Village were present during the brief ceremony.

Feb 09, 2018, 13:49 PM IST

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

Seoul, Pyongyang agree to hold high-level talks

North Korea notified that it has accepted South Korea's latest offer for talks on January 9.

Jan 05, 2018, 08:53 AM IST

Olympics: International Olympic Committee will see more than 20,000 drugs tests in Pyeongchang lead-up

Russia has been in the spotlight since a report by a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission in 2015 found evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia and accused it of systematically violating anti-doping regulations.

Dec 05, 2017, 19:24 PM IST

2018 Winter Games can `unite` South Korea, says IOC boss Thomas Bach

Bach said he had been assured of cross-party support for the event after the impeachment of president Park Geun-Hye in a corruption scandal.

Mar 15, 2017, 18:44 PM IST