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2018 Pyeongchang Olympics

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Researchers look to curling as next sporting frontier for artificial intelligence

Winter Sports May 12, 2020

Researchers look to curling as next sporting frontier for artificial intelligence

A group at Hokkaido University has created an AI capable of analyzing shot options from over 10,000 possibilities.

Joint Korean 2032 Olympic bid faces hurdles of sanctions, cultural differences and state of war

Asia Pacific | ANALYSIS Feb 14, 2019

Joint Korean 2032 Olympic bid faces hurdles of sanctions, cultural differences and state of war

by Joyce Lee and Karolos Grohmann

If North and South Korea succeed in their long-shot bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, any athletic feats may be overshadowed by the political achievements needed to make the games happen. Buoyed by the role the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics played in easing tensions ...

Cheerful personality helps Kaori Sakamoto shine on ice

Figure Skating | ICE TIME Oct 16, 2018

Cheerful personality helps Kaori Sakamoto shine on ice

by Jack Gallagher

Kaori Sakamoto took the skating world by storm last season in her first year as a senior competitor. The 18-year-old finished second at Skate America last November, then took second again at the Japan championships in December to earn one of the two spots for ...

Akita group gives puppy to Olympic champion skater Alina Zagitova

Figure Skating May 26, 2018

Akita group gives puppy to Olympic champion skater Alina Zagitova

Russian Olympic figure skating champion Alina Zagitova received an Akita puppy Saturday from a group preserving the Japanese dog breed at a presentation ceremony in Moscow attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Zagitova plans to name the red-haired female Akita dog Masaru, meaning victory in ...

Huge hometown crowd celebrates Olympic figure skating champ Yuzuru Hanyu in Sendai

Figure Skating Apr 22, 2018

Huge hometown crowd celebrates Olympic figure skating champ Yuzuru Hanyu in Sendai

More than 100,000 people turned out to cheer Yuzuru Hanyu, who won a second consecutive men's figure skating gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, as he paraded through the streets of his hometown of Sendai on Sunday. According to organizers, about 108,000 adoring fans ...

Yuzuru Hanyu to  participate in talk session at  ice show in Tokyo

Figure Skating Mar 15, 2018

Yuzuru Hanyu to participate in talk session at ice show in Tokyo

Reigning Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu will make a much-anticipated appearance before fans at an ice show in Tokyo next month, event organizers said Thursday. Hanyu, who is skipping the March 21-25 world championships in Milan to nurse a right ankle injury, will not perform on ...

Business / Tech Mar 9, 2018

Olympics hack highlights emerging 'false flags' threat: researcher

The "Olympic Destroyer" computer virus used to attack last month's Pyeongchang Winter Games was embedded with forged code to make investigators believe the attack was done by hackers linked to North Korea, Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported Thursday. Discovery of the effort to insert a fake ...

Candeloro feels Hanyu will skate 2-4 more years

Figure Skating | ICE TIME Mar 6, 2018

Candeloro feels Hanyu will skate 2-4 more years

by Jack Gallagher

The big extravaganza in Pyeongchang is over now and what a show it was. In every category, the skating performances were simply amazing. Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno in the men's, Alina Zagitova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Kaetlyn Osmond and Satoko Miyahara in the women's, Aljona Savchenko ...

Putting Japan's Olympic success into words

Language | BILINGUAL Mar 5, 2018

Putting Japan's Olympic success into words

by Yukari Tanaka

Team Japan amassed 13 medals in Pyeongchang, its best ever Winter Games medal haul.

Language | MORNING ENGLISH Mar 5, 2018

Let's discuss the Pyeongchang Olympics

The Pyeongchang Olympics had a bit of everything: political theater, incredible athletic achievements, the wrath of Mother Nature, and more Russians caught doping.

Curling charms flying off shelves at shrine in Olympic bronze medalists' hometown

Olympics / Winter Olympics / Curling Mar 4, 2018

Curling charms flying off shelves at shrine in Olympic bronze medalists' hometown

Miniature curling stone charms have become a sold-out success at a shrine in the hometown of the Japanese women's curling team which won bronze at the recent Pyeongchang Olympics. In addition to being sold, the charms were given to the women who play for the ...

Can Japan's women skaters catch up with Russians?

Figure Skating | ICE TIME Mar 1, 2018

Can Japan's women skaters catch up with Russians?

by Jack Gallagher

In the wake of Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva winning the gold and silver medals in such dominating fashion at the Pyeongchang Games, many are wondering how the Japanese women can close the gap on the powerful Russians going forward. Zagitova, with a score of ...

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