Organizers and IOC made many mistakes in planning and staging of Pyeongchang Games
Parting thoughts and parting shots from Pyeongchang: • It was terrible to see Gangneung Ice Arena with so many empty seats at the start of the figure skating events each morning. Very bad optics for the skaters and TV viewers around the world. All of the ...
Francesco Friedrich's four-man German bobsleigh team won gold on Sunday with their victory at the Olympic Sliding Centre completing Germany's sweep of the bobsleigh gold medals. The German unit, piloted by the powerfully built multiple world champion Friedrich, finished with a combined time of three ...
The Pyeongchang Olympics have had a bit of everything since Yuna Kim ignited the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony on Feb. 9. Political theater, incredible athletic achievements, the wrath of Mother Nature, and more Russians caught doping. The first week was significantly overshadowed by ...
The International Olympic Committee dashed Russian athletes' hopes of marching behind their national flag at the Pyeongchang Games on Sunday, deciding against immediately lifting Russia's Olympic suspension after fresh doping violations. Russians have been competing as Olympic Athletes from Russia, with the nation's Olympic ...
South Korea's 'Garlic Girls' fall short in bid for gold as Sweden claims curling title
The South Korean women's curling team ended their fairy tale campaign at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with a silver medal, falling to heavyweight Sweden 8-3 in Sunday's final. Riding a wave of popularity that swelled as the games progressed, the "Garlic Girls," as they are ...
Nana Takagi emerges from sister's shadow with gold medal in mass start
Miho Takagi arrived in South Korea amid much media hype about her chances for gold in women’s speedskating at the Pyeongchang Winter Games. But it was her elder sister Nana who stole the headlines on Saturday night when she won the inaugural women's mass start ...
It was a day of big firsts. Finland picked up its first gold of the games, and Nana Takagi become the only woman to get two speedskating golds at Pyeonchang, but perhaps the most historic first was Czech snow star Ester Ledecka taking golds ...
Japan women's curling squad triumphs over Great Britain in bronze-medal match
Japan's incredible run in women's curling culminated in a 5-3 win Saturday over Great Britain in the Pyeongchang Olympics bronze-medal match. With this win, Japanese skip Satsuki Fujisawa and her squad capped a tournament that saw them beat Sweden — the gold medalist in 2010 ...
Nana Takagi zooms to gold in women's mass start final
Japan's Nana Takagi won the gold medal in the women's mass start final at Gangneung Oval on Saturday night. The gold was the second here for Takagi, who also picked up one in Japan's victory in the team pursuit on Wednesday night. She is the only ...
American skip John Shuster produced a masterstroke to earn a rare five-pointer as the United States beat Sweden 10-7 to win its first ever Olympic men's curling title on Saturday. With U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka among the crowd, Shuster all but wrapped up ...
Canadian ski cross athlete David Duncan has been charged with stealing a car in the early hours of Saturday morning, South Korean police said. A police official in charge of international crime at Gangwon Provincial Police Agency said the athlete, his wife and manager had ...
A second Russian athlete failed a doping test at the Pyeongchang Games, a day before the IOC's executive board is to decide whether to reinstate the country for Sunday's closing ceremony. Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov told The Associated Press on Friday that a ...
