Russian bobsleigh pilot Nadezhda Sergeeva has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics after admitting to an anti-doping rule violation.

Halfpipe skier Brendan 'Bubba' Newby will be Ireland’s flag bearer during the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang on Sunday, it was announced today.

A second Russian athlete competing at the Winter Olympics has tested positive for a banned drug.

Ivanka Trump has landed in South Korea to attend this weekend's closing ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

The balance of the sport's power has shifted east, where it is likely reside for some time to come in the gleaming blades of Russian Alina Zagitova

Alexander Krushelnitsky has been stripped of the mixed doubles curling bronze medal won at the Winter Olympics after admitting to using meldonium, the Court of Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping division has announced.

Alexander Krushelnitsky's hearing following a positive test for meldonium will be held in Pyeongchang on Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping division has announced.

A British Olympic speed skater's dream is over after she was dramatically disqualified from her women's 1000m heat in Pyeongchang.

Latest: Brendan Newby, the first Irish half-pipe skier in the history of the Winter Olympics, was just one place off qualifying for the final at the half-way point of his qualifying group in PyeongChang today.

Elise Christie is “desperate” to overcome an ankle injury to make a final bid for Winter Olympics glory in Pyeongchang.

The first notes of Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You had just played when Gabriella Papadakis suddenly became aware that people were about to see a whole lot more of her shape than she had planned.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport's anti-doping division has announced it has begun proceedings against medal-winning Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky.

A Russian athlete competing at the Winter Olympics is suspected of failing a doping test, according to reports in Russia.

Bad weather may have delayed and frustrated them for several days but when Ireland's alpine skiers Patrick McMillan and Tess Arbez finally got to make their Winter Olympic debuts this morning they did not disappoint.

US luger Emily Sweeney was involved in a high-speed crash in the women's singles luge event at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on Tuesday.

Ireland's Tess Arbez has had been made wait again to ski at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang as high winds have interrupted events.

Cross-country skier Thomas Westgaard has placed 62nd in the 1.4km Cross Country Sprint at the Winter Olympics.

Elise Christie's Olympic agony continued at the Gangneung Ice Arena as she crashed out on the penultimate lap of the women's 500m short track final.

A brilliant first run saw Irish snowboarder Seamus O’Connor within touching distance of qualifying for the half-pipe final at this morning's Winter Olympics qualifying session in PyeongChang.

The Winter Olympics are supposed to be cold, of course. Just maybe not this cold.

The tension was thick. The mood was glacial. And the siblings were sparring.

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side yesterday under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger,

Scratch beneath the political permafrost and the frozen vials of Russian urine, set aside a far-from-thawed Cold War, and a Winter Olympics is threatening to break out in Pyeongchang.

Clare native Patrick McMillian will be the first Irish skier in action at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang on Sunday.

The Winter Olympics was declared officially open by International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach today - here are some of the highlights from the spectacular ceremony in Pyeongchang.

South Korea really put on a show for the rest of the world today as the Winter Olympics officially began.

The Irish team, led by flagbearer Seamus O'Connor, were in high spirits today as they represented the country at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Forty-five Russian athletes and two coaches will not take part in the Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed their request to be invited by the International Olympic Committee.

The sister of the North Korean leader became the first member of her family to visit South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War as part of a high-level delegation attending the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

As athletes make their way to Pyeongchang, South Korea, to take part in curling and bobsleigh, ice hockey and luge, will all the competitors be playing fair? Robert Hume on Winter Olympic dirty tricks Catching cool customers.

If yesterday’s weather forecasts were accurate then today parts of the country will, appropriately, lie under snow just as the Winter Olympics open in South Korea. In what seems a particularly apt challenge the Pyeongchang games have been named as a “peace Olympics”.

Given his surname and upbringing — on a tiny island of fewer than 600 people in Norway — on first glance it seems unlikely that Thomas Westgaard would be competing for Ireland in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

North Korea has held a military parade and rally in Kim Il Sung Square, just one day before South Korea hosts the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in plans to meet Kim Jong Un's sister and other senior North Korean officials who are heading to the South on Friday for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Seamus O’Connor will be Ireland’s flag bearer tomorrow morning as the coldest Winter Olympics in decades gets underway with the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

No athletes have been affected.

"It’s a great honour for me and my family that I have been chosen to be the Irish flag bearer."

A further 15 Russian athletes have appealed against their exclusion from the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be part of the high-level delegation going to the South for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Seoul has said.

Nine hundred military personnel have been called in to address a shortfall in security at the Winter Olympics after illness resulted in the quarantine of 1,200 staff.

North Korea has cancelled one of the key joint cooperation projects with South Korea planned for next month's Winter Olympics, officials said, further proving the delicate nature of ties between the rivals split for seven decades.

Russian athletes have been targeted in anti-doping testing ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the International Olympic Committee announced on Thursday.

There’s a famously difficult move in freestyle skiing called a ‘cork’, a fact that particularly tickles Brendan Newby.

North Korea has agreed to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, Seoul officials said.