"It was insane, it was a rollercoaster," said Kim Meylemans, a skeleton racer from Belgium. The 25-year-old posted a tearful video on Instagram last week from isolation which highlighted the perils of competing in the middle of a pandemic. Meylema...

"Yesterday was the first day I didn't bawl my eyes out, so being able to race is a victory in itself," said the 37-year-old American, who sits fourth overnight in the monobob heats. Meyers Taylor is racing at her fourth Winter Games, but her plans ...

Vlhova's brother Boris Vlha told AFP that the 26-year-old had opted to rest her left ankle and "prepare for the remainder of the season". Vlhova is current world silver medallist in the combined and would have been one of the favourites for Thursda...

Events have been overshadowed by the news that 15-year-old Kamila Valieva, the favourite in the figure skating women's individual event, tested positive for a banned substance before the competition. But the sport has still yielded shock upsets, in...

Just a year after taking up racing, Abdi successfully competed in the men's giant slalom at the Beijing Games in the first step to what he hopes will be an Arab revolution of the truly snowy kind. Abdi is the sole representative from the Gulf kingd...

Blinken, South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong, and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa met in Honolulu for a day of talks focused on North Korea's nuclear threat as well as the China challenge. Washington organized the meeting as th...

The group's single "The Law 112: Secrecy and Renegades" is a raucous, defiant anthem with a taboo-defying message -- challenging Thailand's draconian lese majeste laws. Criticising the royal family is punishable by up to 15 years in jail, but calls...

Humphries posted a new track record in the first heat of an event making its Games debut, and built up an overnight lead of 1.04sec after the two runs. That is a huge gap in a sport normally decided by tenths of a second. The medals will be decide...

James came into Saturday's game against the Golden State Warriors needing 19 points to pass Abdul-Jabbar for most combined regular season and playoff points. Abdul-Jabbar finished his hall of fame career with 44,149 points, including 38,387 in the...

The Olympics in the Chinese capital were dogged in the build-up by concerns about Covid and human rights and have now passed the halfway point with yet more controversy hanging over it. This time it surrounds teenage skating sensation Valieva, whos...

Odermatt, who has won four of five World Cup giant slalom races this season -- finishing second in the only race he did not win -- clocked 1min 2.93sec down the Ice River course in Yanqing in heavy snow and low visibility. The 24-year-old Swiss rac...

Elsewhere at the Games, the second of three training runs for the women's downhill was cancelled. Freestyle skier Gu, who won the women's Big Air title in her Olympic debut last week, is competing in the freeski slopestyle and halfpipe events in Zh...

But now losing yourself in a good book is becoming harder, as cash-strapped publishers struggle because the price of paper is soaring. "If a 200-page novel sold for 400,000 rials ($1.60) last year, its price today is 1,000,000 rials ($4.10), most o...

US firm ExxonMobil, France's TotalEnergies, and UK giants Shell and BP announced in the past week 2021 profits totalling a whopping $66.7 billion. It marked a huge turnaround from 2020, when they posted losses as the pandemic emerged, prompting loc...

While sales surge and Valentine's gifts become more common among the youthful Saudi population, the word "Valentine's" is nowhere to be seen. "Management has asked us to decorate the window display with red lingerie... but without mentioning anywhe...