Fight AIDS by walking for life this September! The 29th annual AIDS Walk for Life has been scheduled for Saturday, September 27, 2014 starting and ending on the Rhode Island State House lawn. On-site registration for the 2.5 mile walk begins at 9 a.m., with the kick-off at 10. Registration is also available […]readmore
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have voiced deep concern about the escalation of violence and its impact on civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region, and urged an immediate halt to hostilities. Since late February, fighting between rebel groups and local militia in South Darfur has left thousands of people […]readmore
Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu gave a virtuoso display to set a new world record score of 101.45 for the short programme in the men’s figure skating at the Iceberg Skating Palace. Skating to «Parisian Walkways» by Gary Moore the 19-year old served up a quad toeloop, triple axel and triple lutz-triple toeloop combination, in a routine […]readmore
Evgeni Plushenko, the Russian figure skating star, retired on Thursday from the men’s singles competition, citing medical reasons . After winning gold in the team competition on the weekend, Plushenko suffered a fall trying to do the triple axel jump in a warm up for the short program and immediately grabbed his back . He […]readmore
Sharp-shooting French biathlete Martin Fourcade won his second gold medal of Sochi 2014 with a stylish victory in in the men’s individual 20km event. Having already triumphed in the pursuit, Fourcade, the reigning world champion in the 20km, became the first French athlete to win two golds at a single Winter Games since Jean-Claude Killy at […]readmore
Day seven kicks off at Rosa Khutor with the men’s super combined. From there it’s on to the Laura Cross-Country Ski & Biathlon Centre for cross-country skiing and the men’s 15km classic, to be followed by the women’s 15km individual biathlon event. The spotlight then falls on the Sanki Sliding Centre, where the medals will […]readmore
Hot favourite, Lizzy Yarnold of Great Britain kept her pursuit of Olympic gold on track as the women’s skeleton reached the halfway point at the Sanki Sliding Centre. The 2013-2014 World Cup winner clocked a combined time from her two runs of 1 minute 56.89 seconds to give her a 0.44 second lead over 2007 […]readmore
In a wonderful example of the Olympic spirit in action, the Russian cross-country and biathlon team intervened to offer a vital helping hand to their German counterparts, with a gesture that placed sportsmanship firmly above individual interests. On the eve of Sochi 2014, the German biathlon and cross-country team’s technicians discovered, to their horror, that the grinding machine […]readmore
There was high drama in the women’s downhill as Swiss outsider Dominique Gisin and Slovenia’s Tina Maze each clocked 1 minute 41.57 seconds for a dead heat at the top of the leaderboard, meaning that an Alpine skiing gold medal was shared for the first time in Winter Olympics history. Gisin, wearing bib number eight, […]readmore
Fans in Sochi for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games have also been enjoying an array of artistic performances and events as part of the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad. Over the last four years, approximately three million people have attended the more than 5,000 events – including concerts, theatre performances, exhibitions and festivals – that have […]readmore