Month: December 2017

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyHaley: 'Open question' if US athletes will attend Olympics amid North Korea tensionsHaley: Trump isn't deciding who controls east Jerusalem Emergency UN Security Council meeting called after Trump's Jerusalem announcement: reportMORE confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. will send a full delegation of athletes to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, clearing up confusion sparked when she said last week that it was an "open question." "Yes, we are," Haley told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" when asked whether the U.S. would send its full team in February. ADVERTISEMENT"If you look back, we have always talked about security in the Olympics. We have always talked about keeping our athletes sa...

Lindsey Vonn winces in pain after crossing the finish line Saturday. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn injured her back Saturday during a World Cup Super-G race in St. Moritz, Switzerland.As you can see from the video, Vonn looked tentative on the course and collapsed to the snow after crossing the finish line with a time that put her in 24th place, 1.56 seconds behind winner Jasmine Flury of Switzerland:Video of Lindsey Vonn suffering a back injury in her run, dropping to the snow after finishing (sorry no sound). pic.twitter.com/QLTywWlb1E— Nick Zaccardi (@nzaccardi) December 9, 2017The Associated Press reports that Vonn limped slowly to a waiting car about an hour after the race. However, her father told the AP she was “okay.” An update on her condition is expected

A leading Russian sports official has urged the International Olympic Committee to reconsider its ban on the country participating in the Pyeongchang Olympics.Alisher Usmanov, the president of the International Fencing Federation, said on December 8 that the ban contradicts "the principles of the Olympic movement" as well as the legal principle of "No guilt, no punishment."By banning some innocent athletes as well as guilty ones, the ban "violates the basic human rights and undermines the trust in law and justice," said the Uzbekistan-born oligarch, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a letter to the IOC's executive board.Although the IOC provided an avenue for drug-free Russian athletes to compete at the games, which run from February 9 to 25, Usmanov said the p...