Olympics Features

PyeongChang signs off the applicant file as next step along road to 2018

Yang-Ho Cho: proud of what is being achieved / Fotosports.com SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications PYEONGCHANG, Mar 10: PyeongChang’s 2018 bid team has put the finishing touches to the Applicant File to be despatched to the International Olympic Committee in pursuit of host rights to the Winter Games. A ... read more

posted March 10th 2010.

NEIL WILSON: Vancouver sends snow-free message to the IOC on Winter Games hosting

THE NEIL WILSON COLUMN - An authoritative, exclusive new series only from Sports Features Communications LONDON, Mar 10: Anja  Paerson’s 2010 Winter Olympics may be remembered more for her spectacular crash at the final jump of the women’s downhill that ... read more

posted March 9th 2010.

Sport and tourism - the twin powers unleashed by latest WOA-UNWTO ST-EP forum

Tracy Mattes, Dick Fosbury, Dho Young Shim, General Palenfo, Rick Antonson / Image: WOA WOA  / Sports Features Communications VANCOUVER, Mar 9: On the evening of February 14, as the world focused on the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the World Olympians Association (WOA) took a break from the action and shifted the spotlight to ... read more

posted March 9th 2010.

Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk joins Champions for Peace to reach out to thousands of youth

Alexandra Kosteniuk started playing chess at the age of five years / Image: Peace and Sport SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications MONACO, Mar. 5: The Peace and Sport organization’s “Champions for Peace” elite group of athletes has just gained the support of Alexandra Kosteniuk the women’s world chess superstar. Chess idol, Kosteniuk, joins the ranks ... read more

posted March 5th 2010.

Double honors for Triathlon as Les McDonald receives Olympic Order

Les McDonald and IOC President  Dr Jacques Rogge / Image: IOC/Richard Juilliart SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications VANCOUVER, Mar 2: Founding president Les McDonald was awarded the Olympic Order in commemoration for his nineteen year leadership of the International Triathlon Union. He is widely merited with the inclusion of triathlon on ... read more

posted March 2nd 2010.

JOHN GOODBODY: Positive sign at last in battle to catch the HGH dope cheats

THE JOHN GOODBODY COLUMN - An authoritative, exclusive new series only from Sports Features Communications LONDON, Mar 01: Rugby League never usually makes headlines across the world rather than just in its heartlands of the east coast of Australia and ... read more

posted March 2nd 2010.

Munich 2018 buoyant with 30 medals and TV ratings soaring

Over 100,000 people enjoyed the German Friendly Fan Fest in Vancouver / Image: Frank May SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications VANCOUVER, Feb 28: The Munich 2018 bid wound up the Olympic Games with a strong number of 30 medals and television ratings in Germany going through the ceiling as the athletes racked up medals. ... read more

posted February 28th 2010.

Luge Olympians remember fallen comrade Nodar Kumaritashvili with online fundraiser

US Luge Olympic Team at Whistler Olympic Village / Image: US Luge SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications VANCOUVER, Feb 28: Olympians on the US Luge team have set up an online fundraiser to gather funds for Nodar Kumaritashvili’s family through the Georgian Olympic Committee. The Georgian luge athlete was killed suddenly ... read more

posted February 28th 2010.

Gold medal skater Yu-Na Kim boosts PyeongChang 2018 Olympic dream

Kim's short program was a James Bond medley / lake images LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications VANCOUVER/TAMPA, Feb. 28: Figure skating darling Yu-Na Kim attained her Olympic dream at the Vancouver Olympics by taking the ladies' gold medal and she hopes to help other aspiring skaters to realize theirs in ... read more

posted February 28th 2010.

Korean Air CEO Cho latest Peace and Sport Ambassador

Prince Albert congratulates Yang-Ho Cho as Joel Bouzou and Dick Fosbury look on / Image: Korean Air LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications TAMPA/VANCOUVER, Feb. 26:  Peace and Sport added Korean Air chairman Yang-Ho Cho to the growing list of ambassadors during a reception held last week at the World Olympians Association reunion center in Vancouver. Cho ... read more

posted February 26th 2010.

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