Dipa Karmakar: Dipa Karmakar ruled out of Commonwealth Games | Commonwealth Games 2018 News

NEW DELHI: India’s top gymnast Dipa Karmakar has been forced out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games owing to the career-threatening knee injury she picked up last year, her coach Bisweshwar Nandi said on Tuesday. “She is not yet ready for a tournament...

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Ice Hockey: Statue of Liberty image cleared for U.S. helmets

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – Two U.S. goaltenders are free to take to the ice on Tuesday with images of the Statue of Liberty on their helmets after a misunderstanding about whether they violated an Olympic ban on political symbols. USA Hockey...

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No final, but huge pride for Iran’s Baher

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Iran’s Samaneh Beyrami Baher may have come dead last in Olympic sprint qualifying, but she crossed the line bursting with pride at being the only female in her country’s cross-country skiing team. Sporting a hijab on a...

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Alpine skiing: Shiffrin won’t give up slalom gold easily

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – American Mikaela Shiffrin will enter the record books if she can win Wednesday’s Olympic women’s slalom event at the Yongpyong Alpine Centre. The dominant figure in the technical events on the women’s World Cup circuit, in which...

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Breaks, lighter schedules can help players improve, says Federer

(Reuters) – Swiss ace Roger Federer believes he has benefited from a lighter schedule and says players should not be afraid of taking breaks from tennis to improve their game. The 36-year-old was sidelined for a significant period in 2016 with a...

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Curling: Russians claim first mixed doubles curling medal

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – The husband and wife team of Aleksandr Krushelnitckiy and Anastasia Bryzgalova claimed the first Olympic medal in curling’s mixed doubles when they won bronze for Olympic Athletes from Russia on Tuesday. The Russian couple sealed an 8-4...

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Alpine skiing: Brilliant Hirscher claims elusive first gold medal

PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) – Marcel Hirscher, the greatest skier of his generation, ended his long wait for an Olympic gold medal when the Austrian claimed top spot in the men’s combined event after a blistering slalom run on Tuesday. Hirscher, who has won...

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North Korean pair eye points not prizes, coach says

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korean pair figure skaters Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik will chase the modest goal of recording a personal best score when they compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics, a coach who works with them said...

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Snowboarding: Big boys through top-quality halfpipe qualifying

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Pre-Olympics favorites including two-time gold medalist Shaun White qualified for the men’s snowboard halfpipe final in a high-scoring, high-flying contest on Tuesday. American White, Australian Scotty James and Sochi silver medalist Ayumu Hirano of Japan set the...

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Hirscher heading for gold in men’s combined

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Austria’s Marcel Hirscher is on the brink of winning an Olympic gold medal in the men’s Alpine combined at the Pyeongchang Winter Games after cementing top spot with the top 30 skiers having completed the race. Hirscher,...

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Hirscher heading for gold in men’s combined

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Austria’s Marcel Hirscher is on the brink of winning an Olympic gold medal in the men’s Alpine combined at the Pyeongchang Winter Games after cementing top spot with the top 30 skiers having completed the race. Hirscher,...

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Snowboarding: No official complaints about high winds – FIS

PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) – The 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. Several athletes, including Austrian Anna Gasser and Norway’s Silje Norendal, complained after...

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Luge: Geisenberger sets gold medal pace as Germany hit back

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – A day after Felix Loch’s shock meltdown, Germany’s peerless luge team got back on track as reigning champion Natalie Geisenberger emerged in the gold medal position after Monday’s opening runs of the women’s singles. Twice champion Loch’s...

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Speed skating: Wust powers to 1,500m gold for record 10th medal

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – Ireen Wust of the Netherlands claimed a record 10th Olympic speed skating medal when she surged to gold in the women’s 1,500 meters at the Gangneung Oval on Monday. Wust, who is also the first Dutch athlete...

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Curling: Steady Swiss sneak past jittery OAR to reach final

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – World champions Switzerland slipped past a jittery Olympic Athletes from Russia team on Monday to join Canada in the final of the mixed doubles curling in the Pyeongchang Winter Games. Trailing 6-5 and down to last rock...

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Ice Hockey: U.S. goalie Zapolski just fine being an unknown

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – U.S. Olympic hockey goaltender Ryan Zapolski is used to being somebody that no one knows. “It’s been that was my whole life, my whole career,” Zapolski told Reuters on Monday following a team news conference. “Nobody knows who...

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Biathlon: Fourcade storms to victory in men’s pursuit

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Martin Fourcade of France stormed to victory in the men’s Olympic 12.5km biathlon pursuit on Monday, surging clear after the third shoot to repeat his success in Sochi four years ago and claim his third Olympic gold...

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Figure skating: Hanyu takes first glides towards gold defense

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – Defending men’s figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu on Monday took several glides towards emulating a 66-year-old record by winning back-to-back Olympic gold medals with his first public appearance since a training injury last November. The wildly popular...

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Olympics: Games organizers throw $2.8 million to fix transport problems

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – The organizers of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics said on Monday they would spend an additional 3 billion won ($2.77 million) in a bid to solve transport problems at the Games. Director General of Transportation for POCOG...

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Organizers get creative as winds threaten day three

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Alpine skiing organizers are trying to be creative to get the Olympic program up and running after the first two days of competition were postponed because of high winds. The men’s downhill and women’s giant slalom have...

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