Panel of experts delivers presentations about PyeongChang’s 2018 bid PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- The head of PyeongChang’s bid committee says he was confident about how the bid was going. PyeongChang, the candidate city of the 2018 Winter Games, is now undergoing on-site evaluation by the International Olympic Committee. On day three of their visit, the 14-member panel officially began it...

Panel of experts delivers presentations about PyeongChang’s 2018 bid PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province -- A panel of the International Olympic Committee officially began its schedule in PyeongChang on Wednesday, attending a series of presentations on the city’s proposals for the Winter Olympics. The 14-member panel, led by Gunilla Lindberg of Sweden, arrived here Monday for an on-site inspection to...

PYEONGCHANG (Yonhap) -- The on-site evaluation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on PyeongChang, a South Korean alpine town bidding for the 2018 Winter Olympics, began Wednesday with bid officials' presentations over eight different topics. The IOC's evaluation team, led by Gunilla Lindberg of Sweden, will be here in PyeongChang, about 180 kilometers east of Seoul in Gangwon Province,...

CHICAGO (AP) ― China is facing new questions about the ages of some of its athletes after discrepancies were found in the birthdates of nine figure skaters. According to a list of birthdates published on the Chinese Skating Association’s website and found by the Associated Press, the skaters violated the sport’s age limits by competing when they were either too young or too old. The birthdates o...

The top-tier South Korean ladies’ golf tour will kick off in April with the most-ever amount of purse up for grabs. The Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association announced Tuesday that its 24 tournaments this year will offer 13.6 billion won ($12.1 million) in total purse, up 1.6 billion won from a year ago. There are also two more events in 2011 than last year. The KLPGA also said eight of it...