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Four years after the death of Georgia’s Nodar Kumaritashvili at Vancouver, Olympic lugers begin their Sochi campaigns Wednesday desperate to move on from the...
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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged that Russia would prove a hospitable host of the Winter Olympic Games which open in three days in...
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US telecoms giant AT&T came out Tuesday against Russia’s anti-gay law, as activists ramped up a global campaign for Olympic sponsors to follow suit...
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Two Austrian athletes taking part in the Winter Olympics have been threatened with kidnap, the country’s interior ministry said Tuesday, with local media citing...
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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took senior members of the IOC to meet leopards that are to be re-introduced in the Sochi region, in...
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Kim Yu-Na, Sara Takanashi and Mikaela Shiffrin have the task of dragging the Winter Olympics out of Sochi’s Black Sea bubble and transforming a...
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Stray dogs settle in the morning sun, the smells of nearby boiled corn on the cob and wood-grilled lamb skewers waft upwards, and the...
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The organisers of Sochi Olympics on Sunday raced to finish all the hotels for the start of the Games in less than a week,...
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Nepal’s 44-year-old cross country skier Dachhiri Sherpa predicts he will finish last at the Olympics, but he’s used to such under-achievement. The 44-year-old finished...
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Women outnumber men for the first time in Japan’s Winter Olympic team as the country sends a record number of athletes to Sochi, hoping...