Tag Archives: Olympic

Wednesday, 28 March 2017 :  McMorris, a bronze medallist in slopestyle at the Sochi Olympics, suffered a fractured jaw and left arm, ruptured spleen, a stable pelvic fracture, rib fractures and a collapsed left lung on Saturday and was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital where he underwent several surgeries. The …

Tuesday, 14 March 2017 :  Each time a new Olympic venue is completed, there is a process of checking its safety and suitability for competition called ‘homologation’, where a select number of athletes are invited to try it out for the first time. Some athletes were selected by random draw …

Tuesday, 21 Feb 2017 :  The petition, organised by political group Momentum Movement, may force a referendum, which Balazs Furjes says would be “too little, too late”. Los Angeles and Paris are the other bidding cities after Hamburg pulled out in 2015 followed by Rome a year later. “This ship …

Saturday, 21 January 2017 Alibaba has entered into a digital partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that will see it customise the Olympic Channel for a Chinese audience. The digital partnership was announced in Davos on 19 January and will run through 2028.  Alibaba will help to develop the …

Saturday, 24 December 2016 TORONTO – Double Olympic champion Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia has died at the age of 72, the International Association of Athletics Federations said on its website (www.iaaf.org) on Friday. Yifter, who had been suffering from respiratory problems, died in Toronto where he had lived since 1998. …

Don’t even try to compete with Usain Bolt on the track or in a rap battle. The Olympic sprint legend took on “The Late Late Show” host James Corden in a lyrical war of words for Wednesday night’s broadcast.   And the insults got real funny, real fast. Corden began brightly by …

Friday, 28 October 2016   Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps, unbeknownst to the world, competed at the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil, quietly wed his fiancée, former Miss California Nicole Johnson, weeks earlier, court records made public on Thursday showed. Phelps and Johnson, both 31, tied the knot in Paradise …

Friday, 19 August 2016 GEORGE TOWN: National shuttler Chan Peng Soon (pic) will receive RM100,000 from the Penang government and another RM50,000 from a shopping mall here for having reached the Olympics badminton mixed doubles final. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng stated in his official Facebook page that Chan’s badminton …

Thursday, 11 August 2016 KUALA LUMPUR: Divers Pandelela Rinong and Cheong Jun Hoong will share the RM600,000 cash incentive and a monthly pension of RM3,000 following their silver medal feat at the Rio Olympic Games here. Under the National Sports Council incentive scheme for Olympics, a gold medal winner received RM1 million and …

Wednesday, 10 August  2016 Michael Phelps captured his 20th Olympic gold medal in devastating fashion, sealing victory with a kiss, before adding a staggering 21st before the night was over. The American on Tuesday crushed rival Chad le Clos to regain his 200 metres butterfly title, celebrating victory in a …