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All posts tagged "Olympics"

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  PyeongChang breaks ground on athletes’ village for 2018 Winter Olympics

  SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Yonhap) — PyeongChang, the South Korean host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, announced Tuesday it has broken ground on the athletes’ village for the quadrennial competition. The ceremony to launch the construction of the...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  S. Korean surfer infected with virus in Rio Olympic sailing venue

  SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Yonhap) — A South Korean wind surfer has been hospitalized with an apparent viral infection after competing in waters scheduled to host sailing events at the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games next year, a...

  • Posted August 19, 2015
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  Beijing elected host of 2022 Winter Olympics

  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Throughout more than 120 years of Olympic history, no city has hosted both the winter and summer games. Now, Beijing will be the first to do it — and in the span...

  • Posted July 31, 2015
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  Int’l hockey boss expecting “competitive” S. Korea at 2018 Winter Games

  KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 (Yonhap) — When it makes its Winter Olympic debut in men’s hockey in 2018 on home ice, South Korea will have to take on powerhouses Canada and the Czech Republic in the group...

  • Posted July 31, 2015
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  Kazakh-Korean figure skater dreams of Olympics at home

  KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Yonhap) — Denis Ten has been the most accomplished figure skater to come out of Kazakhstan, having bagged an Olympic bronze and a world championships silver. Now the 22-year-old is trying to duplicate...

  • Posted July 29, 2015
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  Head of 2018 Olympic Winter Games says efforts under way to cut costs

  SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) — The chief organizer for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Monday that efforts are already under way to reduce the cost of running South Korea’s first Winter Games. At a press conference...

  • Posted July 20, 2015
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  5G network defined by ITU as 20 GBs per second, demo by 2018 Olympics

  By Yoon Sung-won The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed on the definition of fifth-generation (5G) networks, a key technological requirement and its schedule to commercialize the technology by 2020. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future...

  • Posted June 18, 2015
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