Category: Winter Olympics

Winter Olympics

Golden day for Canada at Winter Paralympics

A hat-trick of gold medals propelled Canada from sixth to third in the Beijing Winter Paralympics medals table on Monday, as hosts China extended their streak...

Football
/ 4 months ago

Sporting sanctions can land significant blow on Putin, say experts

Russia hosting the 2018 World Cup, the scandal-plagued 2014 Winter Olympics and Gazprom’s sponsorship of the Champions League were powerful tools...

By AFP
Winter Olympics
/ 4 months ago

After Beijing Winter Olympics, China eyes World Cup goal

After staging both a Summer and now a Winter Olympics, there is one major international sports event left for China to...

By AFP
Winter Olympics
/ 4 months ago

Beijing Olympics closes after golden moments and doping storm

The Beijing Winter Olympics have closed with IOC chief Thomas Bach hailing a smoothly run event and a “safe Games” in...

By AFP
Winter Olympics
/ 4 months ago

Beijing Olympics closes after sporting drama, doping and golden Gu

A Beijing Winter Olympics which saw sporting drama and milestones but was tarnished by a Russian doping scandal ended on Sunday...

By AFP
Sports Law
/ 4 months ago

The Olympic Winter Games figure skating doping fiasco

Russia has yet again found itself at the centre of another doping allegation during an Olympic Games, this time during the...

By Dr Robert Dingli
Winter Olympics
/ 4 months ago

Figure skating body to vote on raising minimum competition age

Figure skating’s governing body will vote later this year on a proposal to raise the minimum age for senior competitions to...

By AFP
Winter Olympics
/ 4 months ago

Watch: IOC’s Bach says Valieva’s coach ‘chilling’ after Olympic collapse

IOC president Thomas Bach said Friday it was “chilling” to see how distraught Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was treated by...

By AFP
Winter Olympics
/ 5 months ago

Broken Valieva falls out of medal places as team-mate wins gold

Teenager Kamila Valieva finished fourth in the women’s figure skating at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday as a doping scandal engulfing...

By AFP
Olympic Games
/ 5 months ago

Valieva fourth in Olympic skating as doping scandal takes toll

Kamila Valieva finished fourth in the Olympic women’s figure skating final on Thursday after her error-strewn performance handed Russian teammate Anna...

By AFP