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Christopher Hill on Winter Olympics: North Korea ‘trying to decouple US from South Korea’
Former US Ambassador to South Korea, Christopher Hill. discusses the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where North and South Korea marched together under a single flag.
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Jean Lee on North and South Korea’s Olympics rapprochement
North and South Korea have agreed that their athletes will march together under one flag at the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter Olympics. It’s a remarkable development as the two countries have been at loggerheads over the North’s nuclear weapons programme, and after the ferocious war of words between President Trump and Kim Jong-un.…
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Jean Lee on North Korea and the Winter Olympics
Jean Lee, global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discusses North Korea’s possible involvement in the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
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Russia banned from 2018 Winter Olympics
Russia has been banned from competing at next year’s Winter Olympics in South Korea. But its athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed to take part in the Games as neutrals. The International Olympic Committee decision, made in the last hour, followed claims that Russian officials ran a covert doping operation for…
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London Olympics ‘corrupted’ by Russian doping
Remember the summer of 2012? That heady month of the London Olympics when the sport seemed so clean and pure? Well, an official investigation into Russian doping practices revealed that the country’s Olympic team “corrupted the London Games on an unprecedented scale”.
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Behind the veil of the Sochi Winter Olympics
Sochi will be the most expensive Olympics ever – but beyond the corruption, terrorism, security, gay rights what do we really know about the upcoming winter games?
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Is Sochi ready to host the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Less than a week before the winter Olympics begins in Sochi, Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem, who’s there already, explains how Russia is coping with security issues – and the row over gay rights.
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Winter Olympics: Keme Nzerem tries out the skeleton
Winter Olympics: watch Keme Nzerem try out the skeleton, aka the speeding tea tray.
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Winter Olympics: Putin warns gays to ‘leave kids alone’
Russian President Putin tries, and fails, to reassure the world about his country’s treatment of gay people by saying they are welcome to the Winter Olympics – as long as they stay away from children.
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Thin ice: who threatens Sochi’s Winter Olympics, and why
The resort is the playground of Russia’s elite, and in February hosts the Winter Olympics. But Sochi sits on one of the global flashpoints for Islamist terror. Who threatens the games – and why?
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Olympics security fears after second Volgograd blast
A bomb strikes a bus in the Russian city of Volgograd, one day after 14 die in a suicide bomb at the train station. The attacks have prompted safety fears in the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics.
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Sochi Olympics torch blasted into space
The Sochi 2014 Olympic torch is launched into space. Astronauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky will take it on a spacewalk on Saturday before it returns to Earth two days later.
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Olympics 2020: what is Tokyo’s Paralympic vision?
It was sheer euphoria for Japan as Tokyo was announced as the host city for 2020 Games. But there was little in the country’s bid about its Paralympic plans, as Jordan Jarrett-Bryan reports.
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Olympics 2020: Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo await their fate
The delegations of the three remaining candidates for the 2020 Olympics arrive in Argentina to make their final pitch. Within hours, the host city of the 32nd summer games will be announced.
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Should the West boycott Russia’s ‘anti-gay’ Olympics?
Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama rule out a boycott of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, insisting that anti-gay prejudice will be better tackled by attending the event.
