ANTI-FUR PROTEST AT OLYMPICS -- Animal rights activist Ashley Fruno stages an anti-fur protest Tuesday while wearing just a bikini at subzero temperatures in PyeongChang, ahead of the Winter Games that kick off Friday. As a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, Fruno called for an end to the fur trade, saying that fur has no place at an event like the Olympics. (...

More than a dozen players will be on the outside looking in whenever the joint Korean women's hockey team plays at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. And given the way head coach Sarah Murray has been running her practices, the starting lineup appears to be all but set. There are 23 South Koreans and 12 North Koreans on Murray's team. Under the terms set by the International Olympic Committee, the...

WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump on Wednesday wished South Korea well for the PyeongChang Olympics, saying it will be a chance to showcase the "great nation." "Best wishes to the Republic of Korea on hosting the Olympics! What a wonderful opportunity to show everyone that you are a truly GREAT NATION!" he tweeted. The message was accompanied by a video clip of the president speaking befo...

GANGNEUNG -- It all seemed like a disaster in the making when the South Korean women's ice hockey team of 23 was asked to play with 12 North Koreans for the PyeongChang Olympics -- only about two weeks before its first game, too. But to hear its head coach Sarah Murray tell it, the team chemistry has been excellent, thanks to some help from an unexpected source. The 12 North Koreans joined Murr...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- South Korean short tracker Hwang Dae-heon, who will participate in four events for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, said Wednesday he aims to have a "no-regret" race for his specialty -- the men's 1,500 meters slated for this weekend. Hwang's teammate Seo Yi-ra and Lim Hyo-jun will also compete in the race, but the 18-year-old skater currently stands as world No. 1 in t...

Lee Sang-hwa, considered a medal favorite for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, kicked off her training in the Olympic city of Gangneung on Tuesday. The skater, who returned home from Germany on Monday, participated in the national team's training session at Gangneung Oval, after moving into the Gangneung Olympic Village earlier in the day. The venue will host speed skating events for the 2018 Wi...

The top organizer of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Tuesday he's confident of a sellout at the quadrennial competition. Lee Hee-beom, head of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Games, said that as of Monday, 826,000 tickets had been sold, 77.3 percent of the total available. (Yonhap) "Compared to previous Olympics, the sales rate isn't too bad," L...

GANGNEUNG -- 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 session at Gangneung Ice Arena three days before the ope...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Members of the joint Korean women's hockey team will stay in separate apartment buildings inside their athletes' village during the PyeongChang Winter Games. The joint team played its much-anticipated first match against Sweden in an exhibition game on Sunday in Incheon, just west of Seoul. After dropping the game 3-1, the team traveled more than 230 kilometers east t...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- It was "Super Bowl Monday" here in PyeongChang on the first day of the working week. On a frigid morning in the mountains in the eastern part of South Korea on Monday, fans of American football got to watch the sport's biggest annual event in the comfort of the PyeongChang press center -- with some free snacks to boot. If you were in PyeongChang to cover the 2018 Win...

GANGNEUNG -- The unified Korean women's ice hockey team will don a uniform made by a different company than every other team in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, officials said Friday. Nike has manufactured official Olympic jerseys for the seven other nations in the women's tournament at the Feb. 9-25 competition. The US company had also designed one for South Korea, but its 23 players will not ...

A rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics will be held Saturday, its organizing committee said. The event will be held at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium at 8 p.m. before 20,000 people, including volunteers, residents and officials, the organizer said. The participants will be asked to keep details of the event secret. Organizers said unauthorized filming of the rehear...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- The North Korean figure skating duo of Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik got in their first practice on Friday, one day after arriving in South Korea for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Two North Korean short track speed skaters, meanwhile, skipped their scheduled morning practice here in Gangneung, the host of all ice events during the Feb. 9-25 Olympics. Ryom and Kim are a...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- The Olympic Villages, which will accommodate 2,900 athletes during the upcoming Winter Games, officially opened Thursday. The athletes' living quarters for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics -- split between one Olympic Village in PyeongChang, 180 kilometers east of Seoul, and one in Gangneung, 230 kilometers east of the capital -- had their opening ceremonies, with hund...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- The top organizer of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said this week that he is hoping for a big turnout of athletes for the joint Korean march at the game's opening ceremony. The divided countries reached a landmark agreement last month to march in together at the Feb. 9 opening ceremony. PyeongChang 2018 is the first Winter Olympics in South Korea, and this will...