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Human Rights Watch calls on South Korean President to accelerate reforms to leave Pyeongchang 2018 legacy

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed that South Korean President Moon Jae-In should step up human rights reforms and amnesty jailed trade unionists, to help ensure a positive legacy from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, due to start here today. 

Rights Watch ©Getty ImagesAmong them is 12 athletes that will be part of a unified Korean women's ice hockey

participate with North Korea in the Opening Ceremony under a Unification flag and create a joint women’s ice hockey


Korean ice hockey coach praises chemistry of unified team

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Sarah Murray, the Canadian head coach of the unified Korean women's ice hockey team, insists chemistry

the team is together, we are just one team," she said following a training session at the Kwandong Hockey

Now it is hockey and we are here to compete.





Nassar sentenced to another 40 to 125 years for abuse of gymnasts

  • Gymnastics

Disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar has been jailed for another 40 to 125 years for molesting girls and women in his care.

have faced criticism due to Nassar going undetected for so long.Angela Ruggiero, a former American ice hockey


Germany favourites for men's crown at home Indoor Hockey World Cup

  • Hockey

Germany will be the men's favourites at the Indoor Hockey World Cup, which begins in Berlin tomorrow.

line-up whose first task will be earning a top four spot and qualifying for the quarter-finals.Indoor hockey

side will play third ranked Czech Republic, Ukraine, Australia, Namibia and Russia.The International Hockey


German men's ice hockey head coach signs contract extension

  • Ice Hockey

Pyeongchang by signing a contract extension as head coach and general manager of the German men's ice hockey

Denmark but he has penned an extension which will see him lead the team through to 2022.The German Ice Hockey

deal last year but the 39-year-old opted to delay signing a contract.Sturm, who played in the National Hockey


Van Doren scoops two prizes at FIH Hockey Stars Awards

  • Hockey

Arthur Van Doren scooped both the men's player of the year and rising star of the year prizes at the Hockey

Granatto was named the women's rising star for the second consecutive edition of the International Hockey

legend Alyson Annan clinched the women's coach of the year prize after guiding The Netherlands to the Hockey

 "On behalf of the FIH and the hockey family, we offer our sincerest of congratulations and look


Ahn among 32 Russians to appeal to CAS to have Pyeongchang 2018 bans lifted

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Six-time Olympic gold medalist Victor Ahn is among 32 Russians who officially appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) here today in a last minute attempt to be allowed to compete at Pyeongchang 2018. 

Shipulin.Former NHL player Anton Belov was considered a possibility for the Olympic Athletes from Russia ice hockey

banned him, a decision he is now appealing against ©Getty ImagesAlso on the list are former National Hockey



Japanese Government lodge complaint to Seoul over unified Korean flag

  • Pyeongchang 2018

Japan today lodged a protest with South Korea over the Korean unification flag that includes the Takeshima Islands in the Sea of Japan. 

flag appeared during a warm-up match for Pyeongchang 2018 between the unified Korean women’s ice hockey

 Many supporters at the ice hockey match featuring the Korean unified women's team and Sweden in


Exclusive: Coventry confirmed as chair of IOC Athletes' Commission

  • Olympics

Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been confirmed as chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission here today.

She replaces United States' ice hockey player Angela Ruggiero and becomes the body's third successive

from Norway and the United States respectively, Spanish skeleton athlete Ander Mirambell, Finnish ice hockey