Tag: Olympics

MOSCOW: The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has confirmed on Saturday that Russian players will be performing at the 2018 Olympic Games in South...

  PYONGYANG: North Korea has said it will reopen a telephone hotline to South Korea, to facilitate talks on its possible participation in the Winter...

SEOUL: South Korea on Tuesday offered talks with North Korea amid a standoff over its weapons programs, a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi while addressing the closing ceremony of the Second Quaid-e-Azam Inter Provincial Games held in Islamabad on Friday directed...

TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 organisers Friday unveiled a "significant" cut in their budget for hosting the games, as the city comes under pressure to keep...

ISLAMABAD: In a new diplomatic overture for peace and harmony, a senior diplomat of South Korea has urged North Korean leadership to send their team...

US skiing star Lindsey Vonn said Thursday she would not go to the White House for a post-Winter Olympics reception, aligning herself with other...

IOC medical chief says there will be a lot more in coming two or three months SEOUL: More than 20,000 doping tests will have been conducted...

North Korea could deliver a "fatal blow" to the 2018 Winter Olympics if it launches a missile or stages another provocation before the event,...

A flame from the 1964 Tokyo Olympic torch that was supposed to be kept alight eternally actually went out four years ago, it emerged...

LIMA: Three days ahead of a vote expected to make Paris the host of the Olympics for the first time in 100 years, officials...

South Korea's Jin Jong-oh shot his way back from near elimination to win the men's 50 metre pistol event on Wednesday and become the...

Michael Phelps capped an explosive evening of record-breaking and barely concealed needle the other day by bagging an astonishing 19th Olympic gold medal in...

Pakistan shooter Minhal Sohail on Saturday failed to qualify for the main round of 10 metre Rifle Shooting event during the ongoing Rio Olympics. Needing...

Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) President Brig. (R) M. Khalid Sajjad Khokhar on Friday acknowledged the team's failure to reach the Olympic Games this year...

Former Olympian Muhammad Ashiq looks daily at the trophies he won in a successful cycling career for Pakistan, decades ago. “Perhaps most people think...

Andy Murray has revealed the secret behind the personalised notes that fuelled his Wimbledon triumph and will inspire his bid for more Olympic glory. Murray...