Beijing 2022 has launched a global design competition for the mascots of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, inviting people from around the world to come up with original designs for these important ambassadors of the Games.more

Hundreds of thousands of Tokyo 2020 athletes, staff and reporters will be scanned by cutting-edge facial recognition technology in an Olympic Games first, organisers said Tuesday (Aug 7).more

Forget Instagrams of hotel infinity pools. No amount of filters can top nature, as this extraordinary new video attests. The footage, captured by Iain Miller of Unique Ascent, was shot in a sea cave beneath Owey Island off the coast of Co. Donegal last weekend.more

A group of kayakers had something of a shock when a shark approached them off the coast of the Isle of Man. more

Usain Bolt's hopes of regaining one of his Olympic gold medals have been killed off after Jamaican relay team-mate Nesta Carter lost his appeal against a failed drugs test. more

Calgary could be headed for a city-wide plebiscite on the Olympics as early as this fall, provided a potential bid survives a June vote by council on the financial implications of hosting the 2026 Winter Games.more

27-year-old alpine Igor Sikorski (Start Bielsko-Biała) became the first Polish medalist of the Paralympic Games in Pyongsang. He finished third in the giant slalom in a sitting position.more

In Pjongchang, the torch of the 12th Winter Paralympic Games flared. The traditional formula for the opening of the event was spoken by the President of South Korea Moon Jae-in. By 18 March, 567 competitors from 49 countries will compete in 80 competitions, including an eight-man representation of Poland.more

During today's opening ceremony of the Paralympic Winter Games in Pyongsang, athletes from two Korean countries will march separately - said the chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Andrew Parsons.more

Andreas Stjernen from Norway is considering to end his ski jumping career after the season.more

Olympic champion in figure skating Alina Zagitowa, who in May will finish just 16 years, invented a sweet prize for the triumph in Pyongchang - she allowed herself to eat a portion of ice cream. In Korea, she won the first gold medal for Olympians from Russia.more

The record number of medals won by Norway during the Pyongyang Games does not translate into player bonuses because the Olympic Committee there (SAI) does not award financial prizes for such successes.more

Tomorrow, the ski run of women at 30 km with the classic technique will end with the Olympic Games in Pyongsang. Justyna Kowalczyk, the Olympic champion in this competition from Vancouver (2010), will compete. This may be the last start in the event of this rank of 35-year-old Polish woman.more

Bobsleist Mateusz February will bear the Polish flag during the Sunday ceremony of ending the Games in Pyongyang - said the press attaché of the Polish Olympic mission Henryk Urbaś.more

Alina Zagitowa, who in May will finish just 16 years, won the Olympic competition of female figure skaters, winning the first gold medal for the Olympians from Russia in Pyongsang. Polish women did not compete.more

Only pancers will represent Poland on Friday at the Olympic Games in Pyongsang. Konrad Niedźwiedzki, Sebastian Kłosiński and Piotr Michalski will compete for 1,000 meters. On this day, a total of three finals and a match for curling bronze will be played.more

Poland ranks eighth after jumping in the Olympic team competition in the Norwegian combination in Pyongsang. The leaders are the Austrians, who have a slight advantage over the Germans, and the Japanese are in the third position.more

Aleksander Kruszelnicki, the Olympian from Russia, was found guilty of breaking the anti-doping rules and losing the bronze medal of the curling games - he announced the Arbitration Tribunal for Sport in P'ongchang. A mixed pair of this country was disqualified.more

Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, winning the gold medal in the competition of dance pairs in Pjonczangu, went down in history as one of the most titled Olympic athletes in this discipline, next to the Russian Irina Rodnina or Swedish Gillis Grafstroem.more

Karolina Bosiek, Natalia Czerwonka and Luiza Złotkowska took seventh place in the Olympic team competition in Pyongsang. "It was a good run, especially as we take into account that in this line-up we took off for the first time" - said Bosiek.more

Szczepan Kupczak took the 25th place in the Norwegian combination with a jump on a large object and a 10 km run during the Pongong Olympic Games. All places on the podium fell to the Germans - Johannes Rydzek won, ahead of Fabian Riessle and Erik Frenzel.more

Lindsey Vonn was one of the favorites, but there are many surprises in the congress. After the American won the bronze medal in Pongong, she cried and admitted, "I will miss the games and the atmosphere."more

Justyna Kowalczyk and Sylwia Jaśkowiec took seventh place (16,322,48) in the team sprint with any technique in cross-country skiing at the Pongong Olympic Games. The American Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins (15.56.47) won.more

Poland won a bronze medal in the team Olympic ski jumping competition in Pyongsang. Maciej Kot stressed that this success is the work of the whole team, as well as Piotr Żyła, who did not fit into the squad.zmore

Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitckii, who won a bronze medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics, has tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug at the Winter Games, a spokesman for the Olympic Athletes from Russia team says. The team says it will investigate to learn how the banned drug came to be in the curler's system.more