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The Island Now
April 3, 2018
At the end of every gym class, students answered trivia questions about the Olympics, including current standings and gold medal recipients, and which sports are played in the Winter Games. Physical education teachers tallied the points during each class and added them to the respective countries.
Brit + Co
April 1, 2018
A few months ago, there was little to no demand for home videos from the Shibutani family. Then, the PyeongChang Olympics happened. Interest in early moments between sibling ice dancing pair, Alex Shibutani, 26, and Maia Shibutani, 23, has skyrocketed since the Shibutanis (known lovingly as the ShibÃâà...
KERO 23ABC News
April 1, 2018
Bach said in a statement that he thinks the joint march with North and South Korean athletes at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games "sent a strong message of peace." He said the North's participation in future Olympics can help lead to a peaceful future on the Korean peninsula. The two countries are already onÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 31, 2018
IOC chief says North Korea is committed to Tokyo 2020 Olympic games ... President Thomas Bach met with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Friday and said the North Korean leader is committed to having his country participate in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and the Beijing Winter Games in 2022.
TeamUSA.org
March 30, 2018
Already an X Games champion since the age of 14, Chloe Kim was set to take the world by storm at the Olympic Games. Too young to compete in Sochi, she qualified for the 2018 team at 17. With her win in halfpipe, she is the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal. She is also theÃâà...
TeamUSA.org
March 30, 2018
Winning isn't easy. Eighteen-year-old speedskater Maame Biney learned that when she competed at her first Olympics last month. The first African-American woman to make the short track speedskating team, Biney qualified for two events in PyeongChang: the 500-meter and 1,500-meter. She wasÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
March 20, 2018
At left is a police sketch, based on witness statements, of Eric Robert Rudolph, who bombed the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, as well as a lesbian ... life sentences for the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games and three other bombings, including a bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham,Ãâà...
Monroe County Post
March 20, 2018
The 4-year-olds played hockey, basketball, tumbling and balance beam as they learned about sports, the Olympics and countries of the world. “The children are usually hearing about the Olympics at home,” said teacher Judi Marino, of Greece. “We use that curiosity to get them excited about physicalÃâà...
Jackson Hole News&Guide
March 20, 2018
In February, Downard found himself standing on the Nordic course photographing Jessica Diggins pass her competitors on the final lap of the team sprint to bring home America's first cross-country skiing gold medal. “It was exciting to witness something I had seen my whole life on television and to be thereÃâà...
CANOE
March 20, 2018
Just ask yourself whether city hall's shameless push for the Olympics passes the smell test. First, you're not getting a vote on whether you want the Olympics or not. Coun. Druh Farrell spills the beans Monday. None of the newshounds expect it. Druh says she only found out this past weekend. “Council hasÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 20, 2018
'We could have crumbled': Figure skater Eric Radford celebrates 2 medal Olympics and looks ahead .... He said although this is his last Olympic games, he's excited to embark a new chapter in his life while continuing to stay involved in the world of figure skating. "I'm always going to keep my foot in the doorÃâà...
The Players' Tribune
March 20, 2018
E ver wonder what it's like to be an athlete at the Olympics? How's the food? What are the rooms like in the Olympic Village? How exactly do you stay focused with so much other stuff going on? U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson used her smartphone to go behind the scenes of the PyeongChang Games inÃâà...
NJ.com
March 18, 2018
Groner's finishing time — two hours, 30 minutes and 38 seconds — was 42 minutes faster than her first marathon, just six years earlier. She took about a decade-long break from running starting in 1999. Groner will be older than the typical Olympic competitor when the 2020 Olympics are held in Toyko, butÃâà...
New York Times
March 18, 2018
“I love volleyball, but it is just my job. The day I'm no longer working, I'll still be happy because I am me, Tifanny, the person I always imagined.” TIFANNY ABREU, a top-ranked volleyball player in Brazil who has helped fuel a debate over transgender people in sports. A version of this article appears in printÃâà...
News-Press Now
March 18, 2018
Davidson brought his team to the school as part of the three-on-three basketball competition for the Special Olympics Missouri 2018 State Indoor Games being ... St. Joe Explosions have been training and practicing for the pinnacle of Special Olympics over the last four to six weeks, according to Davidson.
Edmonton Sun
March 18, 2018
BOB STEADWARD OF EDMONTON (LEFT) WITH OLYMPIC ORDER AND March 2/tot CAM TAIT Journal Sports Writer Edmonton Like countless of athletes, Bob Steadward reflected Monday on the medal he received at the Vancouver Olympics. Steadward, the retired U of A professor, was awarded theÃâà...
CNBC
March 18, 2018
Chris Mazdzer of the United States reacts during the Luge Team Relay on day six of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Olympic Sliding Centre ... As he got older, and even after he competed at his first Olympics in 2010, Mazdzer had to work odd jobs throughout the year to make ends meet.
New York Times
March 18, 2018
“Just like any other player, I'd like to go to the Olympics,” Ms. Abreu said in a postgame interview after greeting fans. “But I know it's not going to happen just because I'm getting all this attention. I've got to do my best as a player.” Ms. Abreu says she is trying to limit her media exposure after her success gaveÃâà...
Quartz
March 16, 2018
“But the Olympic games played a major role is showing his 'friendly face' and presenting the country as an open-minded and tolerant one, even as a friendly member with the wider community.” This was quite a feat because only months before the Olympics, the unified forces of Nazi Germany, theÃâà...
The Local France
March 15, 2018
Barely six months after Paris was picked to host the 2024 Olympics and more than six years before those Games are scheduled to open, French budgetary watchdogs are warning of cost overruns. To prevent what one French economist, Wladimir Andreff, called "the curse of the victorious bid" FrenchÃâà...
The Players' Tribune
March 15, 2018
Ever wonder what it's like to be an athlete at the Olympics? How's the food? What are the rooms like in the Olympic Village? How exactly do you stay focused with so much other stuff going on? U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson used her smartphone to go behind the scenes of the PyeongChang Games inÃâà...
Tahoe Daily Tribune
March 15, 2018
A Vail Resorts representative said the firm would be "proud to be a part of hosting a Winter Olympic Games in any one of the three regions of Colorado, Utah or Tahoe." Kelly Ladyga, the vice president of corporate communications, said Vail Resorts will work with Olympic efforts in any of the areas. "We willÃâà...
Citifmonline
March 15, 2018
An Accra High Court has dismissed Accra Great Olympics' request to place an interlocutory injunction on the Ghana Premier League, paving the way for the competition to start this weekend. In presenting their case, Olympics asked for an extension of the injunction period to one month within which the GFAÃâà...
The Stanford Daily
March 15, 2018
It's no secret that Stanford is a breeding ground for Olympic athletes. In fact, the Card has contributed at least one medalist to every Olympic Games that the U.S. has participated in since 1912! That adds up to 270 medals for Stanford and its affiliates alone over the years — 139 gold, 73 silver and 58 bronze!
New York Times
March 13, 2018
Except for bonspiel regulars, curling seems only to break into popular consciousness once every four years, with the arrival of the Winter Olympic Games. This year, the sport that resembles shuffleboard on ice has popped up at a broad array of venues, from urban rooftop bars to remote frozen lakes, givingÃâà...
9NEWS.com
March 10, 2018
And so, one of our arguments is they should only build that train if that's something they need before or after the Olympic games … If you look at the history of bidding cities, those that have done well are those that have many of the venues already in place, so they don't need to take the risk of building newÃâà...
Gauntlet
March 10, 2018
After two full weeks of competition, the 2018 Winter Olympics wrapped up on Feb. 25. The high calibre event attracts spectators of all backgrounds and interests — sports fans or otherwise. While not everyone can relate to the enormous dedication and sacrifice required to become an Olympian, most of usÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 10, 2018
The question of whether Denver should bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics is still officially open, but a group of community activists on Friday launched a formal opposition committee with a catchy name: NOlympics. The group has met informally in recent weeks to strategize while the consideration process isÃâà...
GolfDigest.com
March 10, 2018
We're now nearly two weeks removed from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, and unfortunately, most of the proceedings will be largely forgotten. That could be due to a lackluster showing from America (a distant fourth place in the medal count) or because the Winter games are never on par with theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 10, 2018
Normally, the two events would see a large Russian presence - 232 Russian athletes took part in the 2014 Winter Olympics and 177 in the 2010 Games. But due to repeated doping violations, Russia was banned by the International Olympic Committee. "Clean" Russian athletes were allowed to compete,Ãâà...
NBCNews.com
March 9, 2018
Rippon's infectious personality became such a big part of the Olympics that he was offered a job as an NBC correspondent, which he ultimately declined. For many LGBTQ people, this was perhaps the first time they had seen someone as flamboyant and unabashedly gay as Rippon be accepted to such aÃâà...
CNET
March 9, 2018
Olympic Games hackers tried to frame Russia, North Korea ... The 2018 Winter Olympic Games suffered a cyberattack during its opening ceremony. ... In the malware, which was designed to wreak havoc on the Olympics IT system, there were lines of code that only North Korean hackers had used in theÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 9, 2018
Hannah Brandt, who plays ice hockey for the United States, walks with her sister Marissa Brandt, who plays ice hockey for the Unified Korea team, at the Gangneung Olympic Village before the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 6, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.Brendan SmialowskiÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 7, 2018
Sudbury's Rebecca Johnston is surrounded by Grade 4 students at Algonquin Road Public School as she holds up the silver medal she recently won at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, along with the two golds she claimed in Sochi in 2014 and Vancouver in 2010 as part of Canada's women'sÃâà...
IPWatchdog.com
March 7, 2018
Rule 40 is a provision in the Olympic charter that prohibits athletes and coaches from allowing their names or images to be used in unofficial advertising during the Olympic Games that creates any association (direct or indirect) between the advertiser and the Olympics. “The purpose of Rule 40 is to preventÃâà...
Deadspin
March 7, 2018
Those anxious weeks and months leading up to the Pyeongchang Olympics seem so long ago, now. With the games themselves just recently in the past, it's easy to forget the questions that so defined those days. In bars and around water coolers, out loud to friends and family and in an echoing loop in ourÃâà...
Mashable
March 6, 2018
What better way to celebrate Shaun White's gold medal Olympic victory win than treating it like a video game competition? Dylan Tate gave a nostalgic Super Mario twist to Shaun White's last run at the Winter Olympics. The snowboarder not only ended up with a gold medal, but also with tons and tons ofÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 6, 2018
Kim Jong-un's efforts during the 2018 Olympics meet two of these three criteria. Pyongyang's willingness to increase cooperation with Seoul during the 2018 Winter Olympics is based on North Korea's need for aid and sanctions relief as well as the perception that tension exists between South KoreanÃâà...
Variety
March 6, 2018
Broadcast reality shows reaped the rewards of NBC's Olympics coverage in the delayed viewing ratings for Week 21 of the 2017-2018 broadcast season, which began on Feb. 12. With most scripted broadcast shows taking the week off due to NBC's primetime Olympics coverage, original installments ofÃâà...
Study Breaks
March 6, 2018
In a Winter Olympics that witnessed many new beginnings and outstanding firsts, people continued to be surprised when figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu stepped out onto the ice on Saturday, Feb. 17 and made yet another record into the history book of the Winter Olympic Games. Established in ChamonixÃâà...
The Hill
March 6, 2018
The Olympics are sporting competitions, however, they have always been much more than just sports. The 2018 Winter Olympics ended and there are other valuable lessons to be learned by the next hosts. First, no Olympic games have been profitable since 1960, and the 2018 PyeongChang OlympicsÃâà...
Finger Lakes Times
March 5, 2018
He was adopted by an American couple in Vail and went on to win the bronze medal in freestyle mogul skiing in the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics. That performance made him a hero in South Korea and spawned a reunion with his birth parents, which became the subject of the documentary “Lost and Found.
The Brown and White
March 5, 2018
While Americans continue to excel abroad among the world's most premier competitors, stateside interest in the Olympic Games has declined. According to USA Today, NBC's viewership for the 2018 Winter Olympics dropped 17 percent from the 2014 games in Sochi. In 2002, the Winter OlympicÃâà...
SB Nation
March 5, 2018
Jones' enthusiasm about the Olympics has become legendary ever since she began following in-depth during Rio 2016. That came to new levels this year when she flew out to South Korea to see things first-hand, where she fell in love with bobsledders' thighs, and hockey in particular. She even brought aÃâà...
EW.com (blog)
March 5, 2018
Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the subject of Icarus, was one of the whistleblowers who came forward about Russian athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to compete in the Olympic Games. Fogel's documentary helped shed a spotlight on the subject, and the country was subsequently banned fromÃâà...
Duke Chronicle
March 5, 2018
The Olympics are to the U.S. like men's basketball is to Duke. For most of the year, we all mill about our own daily lives and run around campus in our own bubbles. But like tour guides suggest to all million of these Blue Devil Day prospective students on their campus tours, Duke basketball is the unifyingÃâà...
Variety
March 5, 2018
The Pyeongchang Olympics were a ratings winner in host country South Korea, where far more viewers tuned in to the Winter Games compared to the number who watched the Sochi Olympics in 2014. The Pyeongchang Games were the first Olympics held in South Korea in 30 years, since the SummerÃâà...
The Detroit News
March 5, 2018
The road to speedskating glory in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing starts in places like the Royal Oak-based Wolverine Sports Club. It's a niche sport, with only about 3,000 participants nationwide, said Wolverine Club coach Dave Rondot — but in the wake of this year's Winter Olympics in South Korea,Ãâà...
The Denver Post
March 4, 2018
The group is one of many considering the prospects for the Olympic Games, which will also be determined by whether the United States wants to enter a bid. The metro and mountain “Sharing the Gold” advisory committees will pass their recommendations to the community and civic engagementÃâà...
Lifehacker
March 3, 2018
So, you're super stoked that Team USA won the gold medal for curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and now you want more curling. Well, guess what? People get their sweep on year -round. Here's where you can read up on curling news and watch competitions whenever you like. Article previewÃâà...
