Tag: ice skating

Tearful S. Korean Olympic champion tells court of coach abuse

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Double Olympic gold medallist Shim Suk-hee broke down in tears as she told a South Korean court of the years of abuse she suffered at the hands of her coach. Aged 21, the short-track skater has four Olympic medals to her name, including relay golds at both Sochi 2014 and on home ice at this year’s Pyeongchang Games. But she told a court that her coach Cho Jae-beom had been […]

Medvedeva heads skating stars in Moscow as Pyeongchang looms

by Nick REEVES Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian ice skating queen Evgenia Medvedeva leads an all-star cast at this week’s European championships which carry special significance with the Olympics barely more than a triple axel away. The Pyeongchang Games start in just over three weeks and two-time world champion Medvedeva will be out to press home her claims on the women’s Olympic title that has been left vacant after the season-ending injury that […]

Tropical Malaysia chases Winter Olympics dream

KUALA, Lumpur (Reuters) — In the middle of a sprawling construction site, over a dozen young Malaysian men, sporting ice skates and protective gear, descend onto an indoor skating rink to do their morning drills amid a mist of condensation. They’re in equatorial Malaysia, where it is summer all year long, and training flat out for the debut of winter sports at the biennial Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which will be hosted by their home country […]