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Day 16: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com20 Feb 2022The top moments from the Beijing Winter Olympics on Sunday.
Day 15: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com19 Feb 2022Speed skating - Swings wins mass start, brings first Belgian Winter gold in 74 years.
Day 14: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com18 Feb 2022Cross-country skier Johaug to call time on Olympic career after Sunday's 30km.
Day 11: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com15 Feb 2022Valieva dominates the ice despite doping scandal
AMAZING images from Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com15 Feb 2022Here are some shots of top-class action from the Winter Games...
Day 10: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com14 Feb 2022No more Games for Americans Hubbell and Donohue
Day 9: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com13 Feb 2022Snow blankets Games, delays Gu's return to competition
Day 8: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com12 Feb 2022All the top action from Day 8 of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Saturday.
Day 7: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com11 Feb 2022Iivo Niskanen put on a brilliant display of cross-country skiing to win gold for Finland at the Beijing Games
Meet This Winter Olympics Sensation
Rediff.com11 Feb 2022Eileen Gu is fast becoming one of China's hottest young stars.
Peng Shuai watches Gu win Chinese gold at Big Air
Rediff.com8 Feb 2022Peng could be seen in the stands wearing a black knit hat with the Olympic rings on them and a black coat with the Chinese flag.
Day 4: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com8 Feb 2022Chen scores world record for massive lead over shocked Hanyu
Day 2: What's hot at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Rediff.com6 Feb 2022Home favourite Su Yiming of China made his Olympic debut on Sunday and received a standing ovation in return.
Beijing Winter Olympics: 55 COVID-19 cases on Feb 2, highest daily tally
Rediff.com3 Feb 2022A total of 55 new COVID-19 infections were found among Olympic Games-related personnel on Feb. 2, the chair of the Beijing 2022 medical expert panel said on Thursday, the highest daily tally so far.
Here's what 2022 holds for sports lovers
Rediff.com31 Dec 2021Mark your calendars! Here's all the lowdown of all the major sporting events coming up in 2022...
Wrestler Vinesh Phogat nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards
Rediff.com17 Jan 2019Ace Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has become the first Indian to receive a nomination in the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards to be held, in Monaco, on February 18.
Norway grounded even after Winter Olympic Games super success
Rediff.com27 Feb 2018Aksel Lund Svindal became the first Norwegian to win the Olympic men's downhill, the blue riband event of the Alpine skiing programme, and Norway took gold in biathlon, ski jumping, speed skating and freestyle skiing.
Day 15: What's hot at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Rediff.com24 Feb 2018Ester Ledecka became the first person in Winter Olympics history to capture gold medals in unrelated events after the Czech won the snowboard parallel giant slalom on Saturday to go with her stunning Alpine skiing super-G gold.
Day 14: What's hot at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Rediff.com23 Feb 2018Russian teenager Alina Zagitova edged compatriot Evgenia Medvedeva with a stunning free skate on Friday that earned the Olympic Athletes from Russia a first gold at the Pyeongchang Games.
Winter Olympics Sidelights: Russian medallist suspected of doping
Rediff.com18 Feb 2018A Russian medallist at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is suspected of having tested positive for a banned substance, a source at the Games said on Sunday, in a potential major blow to Russia's efforts to emerge from a drug-cheating scandal.
Winter Olympics: Czech shredder Ledecka stuns Alpine world with gold
Rediff.com17 Feb 2018The 22-year-old was ranked 43rd in the World Cup standings in Super-G and was thought to have a better chance of gold in the snowboarding events she will also contest in Pyeongchang, an unprecedented doubling up.
Wind, snow and frozen phones: How to survive the coldest Olympics
Rediff.com17 Feb 2018The weather was a bone-chilling, minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit).
Winter Olympics sidelights: No official complaints about high winds
Rediff.com13 Feb 2018The International Ski Federation (FIS) has refuted claims that athletes' complaints had been ignored in the build-up to the controversial women's snowboard slopestyle Olympic final on Monday.
Winter Olympics sidelights: Robots take to the slopes on sidelines of Games
Rediff.com12 Feb 2018The virus had broken out in the lead-up to the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang last Friday and led to some 1,200 security staff being quarantined. Organisers had to call in military personnel to replace them.
US skier at Winter Olympics keeping flag flying for LGBT community
Rediff.com12 Feb 2018The 26-year-old told Reuters on Sunday he was excited about representing the United States as well as the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community at the ongoing Games in South Korea.
This Olympic ski coach's life story akin to a Bollywood flick
Rediff.com11 Feb 2018US Olympic medallist Dawson was born in South Korea's Busan where, at the age of three, he was separated from his mother in a bustling marketplace.
Day 2: What's hot at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Rediff.com10 Feb 2018Sweden's Charlotte Kalla won the first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Saturday after powering away from the field to secure victory in the women's 7.5km + 7.5km skiathlon.
PIX: Ice, Ice baby! 2018 Winter Olympics is here and it's the coldest one yet!
Rediff.com9 Feb 2018And while the mercury hits its lowest, South Korea's Jang Hye-Ji launched the Games on Thursday by sliding the first mixed doubles curling stone in Olympic history down the ice, before about 2,500 spectators at Gangneung Curling Centre, AFP reported.
Indian flag hoisted at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Village
Rediff.com8 Feb 2018Luger Shiva Keshavan, Indian contingent's chef-de-mission Harjinder Singh and the mayor of the Games Village were present during the brief ceremony.
Selfie daredevil dies, but the extreme selfie madness lives on
Rediff.com14 Dec 2017In photos: When people go to the heights of danger for a 'cool' selfie.
Sports Shorts: Advani secures IBSF World Snooker C'ship title
Rediff.com27 Nov 2017A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
More injuries on Extreme Park cross course
Rediff.com16 Feb 2014Two of the first six riders in Sunday's opening snowboard cross seeding run were taken away on stretchers after falling heavily, causing concern a day after Russian freestyle skier Maria Komissarova was seriously injured on the same course.
Russian skier Komissarova 'seriously hurt' in training crash at Sochi Games
Rediff.com15 Feb 2014Russian Skicross racer Maria Komissarova has been seriously hurt in training with doctors making an immediate decision to operate, the Russian Freestyle Federation said.
Sochi Olympics: Warm weather disrupts Winter Games
Rediff.com11 Feb 2014A spell of mild winter weather is disrupting events at the Sochi Olympics and Games organisers are concerned about the outlook with temperatures forecast to rise further this week.
Here's what motivated skier Bilodeau chase his Olympic dreams
Rediff.com11 Feb 2014Alex Bilodeau toiled for fours years to retain his Olympic moguls title on Monday but said that was nothing compared to the struggles of his inspirational brother, who has cerebral palsy.
Sochi Games: Sister-act brings Canada glory in moguls skiing
Rediff.com9 Feb 2014Canadian teenager Justine Dufour-Lapointe roared when it mattered most to claim a shock gold medal and lead her sister Chloe to a family one-two in the moguls freestyle skiing final at the Olympic Games on Saturday.
US Olympic medallist commits suicide in Utah
Rediff.com27 Jul 2011Olympic skier Jeret Peterson has committed suicide in Utah, days after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, the US Ski and Snowboard Association said on Tuesday.
Images: Mountain springers are here to stay
Rediff.com27 Feb 2010Though Mother Nature provided very little help, the Olympics freestyle skiing events established themselves as a real focal point at Cypress Mountain, providing some of the most exciting moments of the Vancouver Games.
Canada break home jinx to clinch gold at Vancouver
Rediff.com15 Feb 2010Canada broke the jinx that has cursed it for three home-turf Olympic Games on Sunday with a gold medal in men's moguls skiing, triggering an outpouring of elation from a country that almost thought it couldn't win.