Tag: Winter Olympics
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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 cyber-attack: Security researchers uncovers malware
Some security researchers in the United States have been reported to have uncovered the malware that struck the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Organizers of the Winter Olympics on Sunday confirmed the games fell victim to a cyber-attack during the opening ceremony of the games on Friday, but refused to reveal the source. Researchers with cybersecurity firms…
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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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Winter Olympics: Buhari charges Team Nigeria to go for Gold
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday extended his best wishes to Team Nigeria as they begin their representation of the country in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President commended the women’s bobsleigh team made up of Seun Adigun,…