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