A prohibited drug was found in the body of Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva, who took 12th place in the two-man competition at the Pyeongchang Olympics, said the head of the Russian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, Alexander Zubkov. The federation’s page on the social network Facebook says that we are talking about...
Russian Alina Zagitova became the winner of the Olympic Games in the women's singles figure skating tournament. The gold medal she won was the first for Olympic athletes from Russia in Pyeongchang - until now the Russians had only silver and bronze medals.…
The world community fears that North Korean athletes who did not win a single medal at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang will face the same fate as the football players in 1966 - a concentration camp. The most notorious case is the North Korean football team that got caught...
Mexican athlete Herman Madrazo, who competed in the 15 km men's cross-country skiing race at the Pyeongchang Olympics, finished last. But this alone is already an achievement. Unlike most Olympic athletes who have been training since childhood, Madrazo first started skiing a little over a year ago, when he was 42 years old. And months later ...
The champion in the women's alpine skiing super-giant at the Pyeongchang Olympics was the Czech two-time world champion in snowboarding 22-year-old Esther Ledecka. She finished the competition with a score of 1 minute 21.11 seconds, one hundredth of a second ahead of the Austrian athlete Anna Veit, writes the Guardian. "I…
Ivanka Trump will lead the presidential delegation to South Korea at the closing ceremony for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games, a White House official told CNN on Monday. The first daughter and senior advisor were asked to attend the closing ceremony with her father, ...
“Clean” Russian athletes may be allowed to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, as independent participants. TASS reports this, citing the press service of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). On Tuesday, a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee was held at…
American swimmer Ryan Lochte has been suspended from the competition for 10 months after an incident at a gas station during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In addition, the athlete was deprived of the $ 100 thousand prize for the gold medal he won at the Games. Lochte himself stated, ...