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OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a truck on a rural highway in Canada’s western Saskatchewan province, killing at least 14 people, local media said Saturday citing police. The Saskatoon Star Phoenix said 14 more were injured — including three critically — in Friday’s accident involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus. The bus was carrying 28 people including the driver. Police said the crash took place […]
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AFP) — The showdown for the women’s figure skating title reaches its climax at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Friday while the top teams in men’s ice hockey battle for a place in the final. Here are the highlights of day 14: Figure skating Russian rivals Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva take their battle for Olympic gold to a final showdown. The two teenagers representing the Olympic Athletes of Russia (OAS) are friends […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France-Presse GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AFP) — The joint Korean women’s ice hockey team ended their historic Olympic run Tuesday with a crushing 6-1 defeat to Sweden but still received an emotional standing ovation from the crowd. The team was hastily assembled following a landmark deal between South and North Korea only a few weeks before the Pyeongchang Games and has 12 North Koreans on its roster. They have found little success […]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AFP) — Japanese women’s forward Rui Ukita was suspended for one game of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday by the International Ice Hockey Federation due to a kicking incident against Sweden. Ukita will miss Monday’s group-stage contest against Switzerland but will be able to return for Wednesday’s game against the United North and South Korean women. The violation came with 48 seconds remaining in Japan’s loss Saturday to Sweden. During a puck battle […]
(Eagle News) – Women’s Hockey kicked off the the opening games of the 2018 Winter Olympics with fans giving a standing ovation for the hometown Korea team as they took the ice for pre-game warm-ups. The telecast of the home opener of Korea versus Switzerland showed that fans filled the Kwandong Hockey Centre to cheer on a unified Korea team. This was the first time that North and South Korea combined to form a […]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) — North and South Koreas reunited at a rare game between two rival North and South Korean women’s ice hockey teams in Gangneung on Thursday (April 7). Seoul has given the North Korean women’s ice hockey team the green light on March 29 to take part in the game as the North’s athletes needed approval from Seoul to enter the South after their 1950-53 Korean War ended with a truce, not […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine Ice Hockey Team wins bronze at the recently concluded Asian winter games in Sapporo, Japan. The Filipinos finished in second place in group a with two wins and one loss, with their lone defeat coming against Kyrgyzstan, a 5-10 setback in their first match of the competition The ice hockey event in the Asian winter games is divided into three divisions, with four teams competing in the top […]
Canada has won the gold medal in men’s ice hockey, the last event of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The Canadians beat Sweden 3-0 in the final. The Canadian men beat Sweden in Sunday’s final 3-0 to defend the gold medal they had won on home ice in Vancouver four years ago. Sweden skated off with the silver medal, while Finland, who defeated the United States 5-0 on Saturday, took bronze. The Canadians, who had defeated the […]
