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The organizer of the eighth Asian Winter Games (AWG) in Sapporo said Thursday that the APA hotel designated to host athletes during the games has started to remove controversial books from its guestrooms.
Delegation of Chinese mainland Olympians arrived in Macao Monday afternoon, embarking a four-day visit here.
China’s Olympic medallists touched down at Hong Kong International Airport just before noon on Saturday, marking the start of a highly anticipated three-day visit to the city.
The decision to ban Russian athletes from the Rio Paralympics over allegations of a doping program in Russia is "cynical," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.
Two U.S. Olympic swimmers flew home from Brazil on Thursday after a local crowd jeered them, calling them "liars" and "fakes", and police accused them of fabricating a story about being robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Games.
The ongoing Rio Olympic Games is probably the most relaxed games ever for China. Chinese audiences are decreasingly seeing medals as the paramount goal, and underperforming athletes are calmer when they end up with unsatisfying results. But in a country where athletes are funded by the government, whether athletes should simply enjoy participation remains controversial.
A terrifyingly fast Hungarian swimmer wins three gold medals but sees her coach praised as being "the man behind the performance". A Mexican gymnast is criticized for having a man's body. Australian champions are referred to as "girls" by their own country.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday urged athletes to come forward and report any harassment case in the wake of sexual assault allegations in the athletes village at the Rio Olympic Games.
Russia will have the cleanest team at the Rio Olympics after IOC announced that 271 of its athletes have been allowed to participate in the Games, according to the country's Olympic committee president.
Athletes and officials prepare for traditional flag-raising ceremony at Olympic Village
The world seems to have forgotten the deafening sounds of gun fire that rocks Juba streets as it focuses its attention on the Rio Olympic Games. It has left many dispute and homeless. These refugees have run away from war, literally running for their lives.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says medals won at Rio 2016 will be devalued by the banning of Russian competitors.
Health experts in Brazil have a word of advice for the Olympic marathon swimmers, sailors and windsurfers competing in Rio de Janeiro’s picture-postcard waters next month: Keep your mouth closed.
Russian athletes on Thursday (July 21) reacted with a mixture of anger and despair after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dashed their dreams of competing at the Rio Olympics by rejecting an appeal against a ban for doping.
Athletes from Kenya and Russia who want to compete at the Rio Olympic Games have less than two weeks to convince the International Association of AthleticsFederations that they are innocent of doping.
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