It was a rough day in Pyeongchang for Mikaela Shiffrin and Nathan Chen. The 22-year-old Shiffrin finished fourth in the women’s Olympic slalom on Friday, failing to win her second medal in as many days. She won gold in the giant slalom on Thursday. The fourth-place showing was a surprise […]
U.S. Olympian becomes 1st woman to score perfect 100 [video]
Chloe Kim stamped her name on a new era of snowboarding with a run down the halfpipe that, officially, did not mean anything. To her, it meant everything. The Olympic gold medal was already hers but she knew she could do better. So she cinched on her gloves, cranked up […]
Olympics games kick off with unified opening ceremony
In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side Friday night under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger and suspicion. The sister of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong […]
Officials are scrambling over norovirus spread through Olympics games
Signs posted around the Olympic venues urge extreme caution. Nine hundred troops stream into the area to help. Worried organizers sequester 1,200 people in their rooms. Officials are scrambling on the eve of the biggest planned event in South Korea in years — not because of anything related to North […]
South Korea credits Trump for talks with North (liberals are furious!)
South Korean President Moon Jae-in publicly thanked President Donald Trump for his help bringing the two Koreas together for their first sit down talk in years. In return, Trump explained that he is open to having talks with North Korea at the appropriate time. Liberal lawmakers are not happy with […]
North Korea agrees to Winter Olympics deal (wow!)
The rival Koreas took steps toward reducing their bitter animosity during rare talks Tuesday, as North Korea agreed to send a delegation to next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea and reopen a military hotline. The meeting, the first of its kind in about two years, was arranged after North […]
North Korea may join the Winter Olympics…
With little time to spare, North and South Korea are preparing to hash out Kim Jong Un’s offer to send a delegation to next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Skeptics are calling the offer, floated by Kim during his annual televised New Year’s address, a cynical tactic to drive a wedge […]
Koreas plan first meeting in over 2 years (Trump is winning!)
The rival Koreas will sit down for their first formal talks in more than two years next week to find ways to cooperate on the Winter Olympics in the South and to improve their abysmal ties, Seoul officials said Friday. While a positive sign after last year’s threats of nuclear […]
Cold temps return to the Winter Olympics (finally!)
The cold is back for the Winter Games. After two straight balmy Olympics where some might have wondered if it was even winter, let alone the world’s pre-eminent freeze-dependent sporting event, athletes and visitors alike will finally experience a serious chill in their bones during the games in mountainous Pyeongchang. […]
29 dead, 29 injured in building fire (horrible!)
A fire broke out Thursday at an eight-story building in the central South Korean city of Jecheon, killing 29 people and injuring 29 others, officials said. A Jecheon fire department official said the toll could rise as rescuers continue to search the building after putting out the fire. He spoke […]