Tag: Olympic

TOKYO: Few paid much attention when Mikio Oda won Japan’s first Olympic gold medal — and Asia’s first individual gold medal — way back...

SOCHI: Just days before the start of the Winter Olympics, Olympic chiefs basking in glory over the historic participation of North Korea were abruptly...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO: Mikaela Shiffrin warned she wants to prove that her maiden World Cup downhill win in Lake Louise was no fluke as she...

PYEONGCHANG: Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai could become the first athlete to compete at eight Winter Olympics after being selected for next month's Pyeongchang...

Pyeongchang (South Korea): With little more than 100 days to go before the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, chief organiser Lee Hee-Beom has...

Usain Bolt won a third successive Olympic 200m gold on Thursday to keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented “triple triple” in Rio. The victory...

The war of words between Nick Kyrgios and his national Olympic committee has continued, with the Australian tennis player launching a poll on social...

International Olympic Committee has summoned a meeting of representatives of Pakistan Olympic Association and Pakistan Sports Board on February 15 in Switzerland to discuss...

London’s Olympic champions are celebrating again after being rewarded in the special New Year Honours list, with Bradley Wiggins and Ben Ainslie receiving knighthoods. Wiggins...

Russian weightlifting Olympic champion Arkady Vorobiev has died at the age of 88, the country's Weightlifting Federation said on Monday. "On December 22, the...

At the occasion of Quaid-i-Azam’s birth anniversary, the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) celebrates the momentous moment of birth of the Father of the Nation....

The Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) rejects the premise and the innuendo of the claims of Mr Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan on the Punjab administration’s...

Six sports, including swimming and tennis, have been warned that they will have millions in grassroots funding taken away unless they can show that...

The IOCBSE 0.11 % suspended India's national Olympic committee on Tuesday because of government interference in its election process, two officials with knowledge of...

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is the fittest man alive, according to one magazine. Just months after becoming the most successful Olympic athlete in history,...

London's Olympic Park has taken on the air of a construction site again, with work under way on a 292 million pound transformation before...

Australian swimming boss Kevin Neil vowed an investigation Sunday into reports of pranks, ill-discipline, and an initiation ritual involving sedatives among the London Games...