Topic: East Asia

Hosts Kazakhstan continued their winning run at the Asian Winter Games on Friday, earning five more gold medals.The performance allowed the Kazakhs to gain an impressive lead in the Games medal table with 23 gold medals and 56 overall, while second-placed South ...

Kim wins second gold at Asian Games

South Korean alpine skier Kim Sun Joo won her second gold medal at the Asian Winter Games here on Tuesday finishing with a time of one minute 10.83sec in the women's Super-G event."I'm pleased with my performance here both today and overall ...
This type of skiing is thought to have been started by Odd Kjelsberg of Winterhur, Switzerland in 1889. Among these are North America , Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand . North America uses a series of colored shapes to advise skiers ...
Downhill Skiing (also known as Alpine skiing) is a sport in which the athlete slides ?down? the hills covered with snow. This sport originated in the 1880s and was named after the Alps in Europe. Now, the countries famous for this sport ...
Last year I did a couple of the most beautiful women in sports Hubs, so I thought I would update this years and see who's moved up, who's new and who has fallen out of sight. Serena has played the Australian Open, ...

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold

Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Germany's Martin Braxenthaler ...

Canada, USA in dream ice hockey Olympic final

Canada sneaked past Slovakia while the United States crushed Finland to set up a blockbuster Olympic ice-hockey final as the host nation surged to the top of the medal table with two more gold.At the hockey arena, nerves were frayed when Canada ...
Lindsey Vonn lived up to her reputation as the best downhill skier in the world by claiming the women's Olympic title as Shaun White and Shani Davis made it a golden day to remember for the United States.Vonn delivered organisers some relief ...