DSK Shivajians FC beat Bengaluru FC in sudden death to qualify for the final of the Nike Premier Cup football tournament for the first time here on Tuesday. DSK won 5-4 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 0-0 after regulation time at the Nagoa sports complex ground here. The result saw Bengaluru lose the opportunity to advance to a first-ever f...
Olympic athletes of the two Koreas will march together behind a Korean unification flag carried by Won Yun-jong, a bobsledder from the South, at the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Games this week, according to sports officials on Tuesday. Won was picked by the Korean Sport & Olympics Committee as the South Korean bearer of th...
North Korea's participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics will "lay the foundation for improving inter-Korean relations," the competition's top organiser said on Tuesday. Lee Hee-beom, head of the PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympics & Paralympic Games (POCOG), said North Korea's presence w...
A 280-member North Korean delegation, including cheerleaders and taekwondo demonstrators, will travel to South Korea this week ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Tuesday. The delegation, led by Sports Minister Kim Il-guk, will arrive in the South at around 9.30 a.m., on Wednesday via a wes...
The top organiser of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said on Tuesday that he's confident of a sellout at the quadrennial competition. Lee Hee-beom, head of the PyeongChang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Games (POCOG), said that as of Monday, 826,000 tickets had been sold, 77.3 percent of the total available, reports Yon...
South Korea's figure skater Cha Jun-hwan is well prepared to make a top-10 finish at his first Olympics in PyeongChang, his Canadian coach said Tuesday. "After he won nationals and earned his spot to come to the Olympics, he came back to Toronto as a different person," Brian Oser told reporters after wrapping up Cha's first practice...
Spain's Rafael Nadal remained in the number one spot in the men's Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world singles rankings released on Monday with 9,760 points, ahead of Switzerland's Roger Federer. The 20-time Grand Slam champion Federer, who won the Australian Open title last month over Croatia's Marin Cilic, needs just 155 points to get past Na...
The main athletes' village of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics held the first ceremony to usher in Olympians on Monday, four days before the opening of the games. The welcoming ceremony was conducted for athletes from Romania, Belgium and Brazil at the PyeongChang Olympic Village (POV). They braved icy winds as they marched and hoisted ...
Army Public School from Bengaluru clinched the FC Bayern Youth Cup India title after defeating Mumbai-based Campeon School 4-1 in an enthralling 30-minute final match here. Former French star footballer and FC Bayern Hall of Famer Bixente Lizarazu was present at the final of the tournament. Lizarazu said: "It was a great weekend ...
FC Barcelona retained their unbeaten record in the La Liga as they came back from a goal down to take a point from a feisty local derby away to Espanyol. Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde, perhaps mindful of his side's Cup semi-final return leg away to Valencia on Thursday night, left Leo Messi on the subs' bench along with Ivan Rakitic, Sergi Robe...
