China’s Winter Olympic committee have identified the half pipe as the country’s second best bet for a medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, even though the first half pipe in China opened only in 2003.
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As reported here in The Moscow Times, and just about everywhere else, the Russian City of Sochi has won the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Sochi beat Pyeongchang, South Korea, by just four votes, 51-47. Salzburg, the early favorite, was eliminated in the first round with 25 votes. Pyeongchang won the first round, […]
UK Sport today announced a £6 million package to support Winter Olympic and Paralympic sport up to and beyond the Vancouver Games in 2010. The money, a 20% increase on the funding allocated over the Turin cycle, will be distributed across seven Olympic and two paralympic disciplines on the basis of UK Sport’s ‘No […]
On Monday, the South Korean government officially approved the 2014 Winter Games bid of PyeongChang County, Kangwon Province, according to this report in The Korea Times .
The host of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be determined at the IOC general assembly in June 2007, and competition is expected to be fierce.
Currently, several European cities are […]
