Tag: Pyeongchang
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Winter Olympics: Russian Olympic Committee reinstated by IOC
Russia was reinstated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday after the remaining tests of the country’s athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were all returned negative. Russians competed as neutrals at the Games after the IOC suspended the country’s Olympic Committee (ROC) in December, saying it had found evidence of an “unprecedented systematic…
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Winter Olympics: 100 volunteers against assigned jobs quit Olympic
The PyeongChang Organising Committee says around 100 volunteers have quit working at the Pyeongchang Olympics because they didn’t like their assigned jobs. Organising committee spokesperson Nancy Park said Monday that the absences didn’t harm the running of the Games. “This is because we selected more than we needed, with 14,000 volunteers in action from 90,000…
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Winter Olympics: Nigerian Adeagbo training ahead of first outing on Friday
Africa’s first female skeleton athlete Simidele Adeagbo says she is training hard ahead of her game at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday. Adeagbo, who is in South Korea alongside the Nigerian bobsled team, took to her Instagram page @simisleighs on Monday to state her level of preparations. “Am training hard and getting ready to…
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Winter Olympics: Japanese Speed skater gets first drugs ban in Pyeongchang
Japanese speed skater Kei Saito has become the first athlete to be excluded from the 2018 Winter Olympics for a doping violation. Saito failed an out-of-competition doping test prior to the Games, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said. The 21-year-old has left the athletes’ Olympic Village voluntarily but insists he is innocent. He tested…
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Organizers confirm Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hit by cyber-attack
Organizers of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have confirmed the games had fallen victim to a cyber-attack during Friday’s opening ceremony, but refused to reveal the source. The organizers confirmed on Sunday that the Games’ systems, including the Internet and television services, were affected by the hack two days ago but said it had not compromised…
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32 Russians to appeal against Olympic exclusion in Pyeongchang
Thirty-two Russian athletes have appealed against their exclusion from this month’s Winter Olympics. They include those who had their life bans lifted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) last week. A hearing is set to take place on Wednesday, two days before the Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has invited 169 Russians…