English Premier League rights bonanza kicks off with focus on Amazon
LONDON (Reuters) – England’s multi-billion pound Premier League rights auction kicked off on Friday with soccer fans waiting to see if a digital giant such as Amazon would enter the fray against pay-TV players Sky and BT.
Awkward diplomacy on show as ‘peace’ Games get underway
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colorful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea on Friday, though the diplomacy was tougher to choreograph in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn en…
Golf: Westwood, Rumford lead by one stroke in Perth
(Reuters) – Briton Lee Westwood and defending champion Brett Rumford of Australia held a one-stroke lead in the World Super 6 in Perth after a second round played in windy conditions on Friday.
Hold the phone? Olympics organizers apologize to Iran for apparent gift gaffe
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Organizers of South Korea’s Winter Olympics apologized to the Iranian team before Friday’s opening ceremony for what they called a misunderstanding over gifts of Samsung mobile phones.
Olympics: Hold the phone? Games organizers apologize to Iran for apparent gift gaffe
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Organizers of South Korea’s Winter Olympics apologized to the Iranian team before Friday’s opening ceremony for what they called a misunderstanding over gifts of Samsung mobile phones.
Diplomacy under microscope as ‘peace’ Games get underway
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colorful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea on Friday, and the diplomacy was just as choreographed in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn enemie…
North Korean martial arts display met with silence
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – A martial arts display by North Korean athletes at the opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Games was met with silence at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, with the only supportive noises coming from North Korean che…
Bobsleigh: Jamaica’s women proud to carry on ‘Cool Runnings’ legacy
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Thirty years on from the Jamaican men’s bobsleigh team’s Olympic breakthrough that inspired the cult movie “Cool Runnings”, a women’s team from the Caribbean nation will blaze a similar trail at the Winter Games in …
Ice Hockey: Unified Korean team try to focus on game, not politics
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) – For Korea women’s Olympic hockey coach Sarah Murray and her team, Saturday’s clash with Switzerland is still just a game even if the world sees an event loaded with political overtones in the long conflict between Nor…
Athletics: Coleman gets another chance at break ‘his’ record
(Reuters) – World silver medalist sprinter Christian Coleman gets another chance to break the 60 meters world record this weekend, a mark he believes already belongs to him.
