Nao Kodaira, a former Olympic speed skater champion from Japan, said on Tuesday that she will retire from the sport in October after a farewell event in her birthplace of Nagano. In Pyeongchang four years ago, the 35-year-old earned Olympic gold in the women’s 500 metres and silver in the 1,000 metres. In Pyeongchang 2010, … Read more
US freestyle skier Colby Stevenson said Tuesday he wants to put his traumatic past behind him as he goes for Olympic glory in Beijing, having survived a near-fatal car crash six years ago. On Wednesday, the 24-year-old qualified fifth for the men’s freeski Big Air final and reflected on a watershed moment in his short … Read more
Norway’s cross-country ski squad has been winning a huge haul of medals at one Game after another and with Beijing Winter Olympics just started, Norwegians are expected to again top the medals table. Norway has hosted the Games on two occasions including the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. … Read more
TOKYO: Only four months have passed since Japan’s Ayumu Hirano competed at the Tokyo Games, now he is gearing up for another crack at Olympic gold — this time on Beijing’s snow in February. Hirano took part in the park competition as skateboarding made its Olympic debut this summer, missing out on the eight-man final … Read more
PARIS: Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group’s role as a “worldwide partner” of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has sparked a behind-the-scenes battle to prevent it from hosting and accessing sensitive data. “There is a fight,” Guillaume Poupard, director general of the National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) said earlier, before adding that it … Read more
