TEHRAN, January 20 -Olympics organizers and representatives from the two Koreas are to hold a meeting to work out the details of a landmark deal on the participation of Pyongyang in the Winter Games next month.
TEHRAN, January 15 -North and South Korea agreed to hold working talks on Wednesday on the North sending athletes to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, Seoul’s unification ministry said, as months-long tensions over the North’s weapons programs ease.
TEHRAN, December 5 -Russia is widely expected to face punishment over allegations of state-sponsored doping, which it vehemently denies, when the IOC meets Tuesday to decide on the country’s participation in the upcoming Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
TEHRAN, November 28 -The International Olympic Committee has annulled the results of another five Russian participants of the Sochi 2014 Olympics, citing the findings of a disciplinary commission whose work is based on the claims of a disgraced Moscow anti-doping lab chief.
TEHRAN, October 20 - Russia has accused the United States of exerting pressure on Olympics officials to exclude the country from the international sporting event.
INCHEON, South Korea, Sept 20, 2014 (AFP) - Olympic chief Thomas Bach said Saturday he wants to see an even split of female to male athletes at international sporting events after Saudi Arabia brought no women to the Asian Games.