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No 'Plan B' for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, says Bach 05 Feb 2018 - 02:38 pm
A photograph taken on February 5, 2018, shows the North Korean national flag displayed outside their dormitory across three stories at the athletes' village in Gangneung, ahead of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.  AFP / MLADEN ANTONOV
North Korea wins Olympic trip amid discord on nuclear arms 09 Jan 2018 - 10:58 pm
Emery Lehman and Brian Hansen lead a group of skaters in the Men's Mass Start event during the Long Track Speed Skating Olympic Trials at the Pettit National Ice Center on January 7, 2018 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stacy Revere/Getty Images/AFP
Figure skating: Chen signals Olympic intentions with US title 07 Jan 2018 - 09:00 am
Nathan Chen competes in the Men's Free Skate during the 2018 Prudential U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the SAP Center on January 6, 2018 in San Jose, California. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP.
Kim says N.Korea could participate in South's Winter Olympics 01 Jan 2018 - 09:33 am
File Photo: Reuters.
IOC 'confident' Tokyo 2020 venues will be ready on time 11 Dec 2017 - 10:16 am
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike (R) delivers a speech beside State Minister in charge of Tokyo Olympics Shunichi Suzuki (L) during the fifth meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo
Indonesia lifter wins Olympic bronze as rival fails drug test 06 Dec 2017 - 02:17 pm
(FILES) This file picture taken on August 10, 2008 shows Raema Lisa Rumbewas of Indonesia failing a lift in the women's 53 kg group A weightlifting event during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the Beijing University of Aeronatics and Astronautics Gymnas
Russia voices regret at Olympic ban, awaits Putin verdict 06 Dec 2017 - 12:12 pm
Russia's ice hockey forward Ilya Kovalchuk has told TASS news agency that he believes Russian athletes should go to the Olympics. (AFP Photo/Alexander NEMENOV).
Tokyo 2020 to feed IOC food from disaster-hit regions 04 Dec 2017 - 09:46 am
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Russia still 'not compliant' over doping as Olympics loom 16 Nov 2017 - 02:56 pm
Russia's anti-doping agency (RUSADA) director general Yury Ganus attends a press conference in Moscow on November 16, 2017. AFP / Alexander NEMENOV
Olympics: N.Korea attack fears an 'exaggeration', says Games chief 31 Oct 2017 - 09:02 am
In a photo taken on Oct 27, 2017 workers carry materials at the stadium of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018 opening ceremony, in Pyeongchang. (Photo: AFP/ Sebastien Berger).
IOC backs 2018 Games despite tensions 30 Oct 2017 - 01:02 am
The mascot for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Soohorang is seen during the Pyeongchang Winter Festival, near the venue for the opening and closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in this February, 20
2018 Olympic torch ceremony hit by poor weather 24 Oct 2017 - 01:41 pm
Former South Korea footballer Park Ji-sung poses with the Olympic torch with the flame during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Olympics: US interested in Winter Games bid 14 Oct 2017 - 09:51 am
The U.S. Olympic Committee and its CEO, Scott Blackmun, are considering bidding on either the 2026 or 2030 Winter Games. (Maxx Wolfson/Getty Images).
Brazil police arrest Olympic committee chief in vote-buying scandal 06 Oct 2017 - 12:31 am
Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) President Carlos Arthur Nuzman (centre) arrives to Federal Police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil yesterday.
Olympics-AOC will not change with Coates in charge - De Jong 27 Aug 2017 - 08:58 am
John Coates at a 2013 AOC media conference. / Reuters.
Los Angeles City Council urged to approve Games deal 06 Aug 2017 - 12:29 am
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Los Angeles gets Olympics with an 11-year wait – and risks 03 Aug 2017 - 04:11 am
Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti attends the news conference after the voting during the International Olympic Committee (IOC) extraordinary session in Lausanne, Switzerland, in this July 11, 2017 file photo.
Paris Olympics aims to regenerate poor, northeastern suburbs 01 Aug 2017 - 06:56 pm
The entrance of the Paris-Le Bourget Exhibition venue in Le Bourget in this file photo taken on May 15, 2017. AFP / Franck Fife