Organizers of the upcoming Asian Games in Incheon opened their athletes’ village for the first time on Tuesday, allowing a sneak peek into newly constructed facilities that will accommodate some 14,500 athletes and officials during the competition.The Asian Games will run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4. Incheon, a metropolitan city just west of the capital, is the third South Korean host of the Asian Games, after Seoul in 1986 and Busan in 2002.The athletes’ village is located in Guwol-dong in the cent

The president of the national Olympic body will serve as an interim head of South Korea's first Winter Games, officials said Wednesday, two days after a sudden resignation of the former chief organizer.Kim Jung-haeng, who heads the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC), will also oversee operations of the organizing committee of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, an alpine town about 180 kilometers east of Seoul, until it finds a full-time replacement for the former president of the committee, Ki

The chief organizer of South Korea's first Winter Olympics has offered to resign, a government official said Monday.The official said Kim Jin-sun, head of the organizing committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, recently expressed his intention to quit and that his resignation offer has been accepted, without offering specific time frames.Kim, 67, has been the top organizer of the Winter Games since November 2011, four months after Pyeongchang, an alpine town in the eastern province

Police in Sao Paulo fired tear gas Monday to disperse protesters supporting a subway strike that has unleashed transport chaos three days before the Brazilian mega-city hosts the World Cup kick-off.A group of about 150 protesters set fire to piles of garbage to block a central avenue in the Brazilian business hub, prompting some two dozen riot police to fire stun grenades and then tear gas to disperse them.The demonstrators were backing a five-day-old strike by subway workers that has posed a ma

South Korea will file an official complaint with the international governing body for figure skating over the controversial composition of the judging panel for the ladies’ singles competition at this year’s Winter Olympics, officials said on Friday.South Korean star Kim Yu-na won the silver medal in the event at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia last month, finishing more than five points behind Adelina Sotnikova of Russia in a decision that baffled many experts and fans alike. Those who ques

SOCHI, Russia (AFP) ― Russia opens its first-ever Winter Paralympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, an opportunity for people with disabilities to triumph but which the crisis in Ukraine threatens to derail.Amid a chill reminiscent of the Cold War, athletes continued to train ahead of the opening ceremony, which is scheduled for 8:14 p.m., and raised their national flags in the Olympic village at the welcoming ceremony Thursday.Among them were 31 Ukrainians, yet to announce their fi