Japanese authorities have arrested members of the notorious Yakuza crime ring, after they were found extorting earnings from workers at the site of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Six Yakuza members were arrested Wednesday for illegally mobilizing homeless people to work on construction, then extorting part of their $90-a-day wages, the Asahi Shimbun reported.

The Canadian sprinter lost his gold medal 30 years ago this week after a positive test at the lab in Seoul. The Star dug up the results which are filled with bizarre notations. “If I had seen this in Seoul, I would have kept my medal.” “If I had seen this in Seoul, I would have kept my medal,” Johnson says while reading pages from the September 1988 lab report containing his drug-testing results. “If you can’t see the evidence, how can others condemn somebody?”

A joint statement says the two Koreas agreed to establish buffer zones along their land and sea borders to reduce military tensions and prevent accidental clashes. The statement signed by the countries’ defense chiefs also says the Koreas agreed to withdraw 11 guard posts from the Demilitarized Zone by December with the aim of removing them eventually.

North Korea will take part in the next two Olympic Games in Japan and China, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Saturday after meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.

South Korea approved a plan to use a government fund to financially support North Korea's participation in the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, the unification ministry said Friday. The government deliberative committee for the inter-Korean cooperation fund approved some 130 million won (US$121,370) in spending from the government budget for inter-Korean cooperation to pay the Paralympic bills for Pyongyang, the ministry said.

Even as the sport’s top athletes compete for gold at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, a scientific mystery remains unsolved.

Despite Russia’s disappointing gold medal haul and all the drama that came with a doping scandal, Russian athletes that competed at the 2018 Winter Olympic games were given a heroes welcome which included the obligatory media news rounds, special greetings and medals from the Russian Prime Minister and President himself, Vladimir Putin, and 46 BMW Crossovers for medalists. Yes, each and every medalist got to take home a BMW Crossover with keys presented by Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The medal count for the 2018 Winter Olympics

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee has confirmed that 87% of the plywood panels used to build its new national stadium come from southeast Asian rainforests. But the timber cannot be traced back to its original source under the committees’s certification protocols, which have been censured by campaigners for a lack of due diligence.

Fireworks explode during the closing ceremony.

After a historic performance at the Olympics, some Norwegians fret that they dominate their favorite sport so much that they are ruining it.

A despondent mood swept through Russian athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Games on Saturday, their hopes of being able to fly the Russian flag at the closing ceremony deflated by a second positive doping test.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada perform in the free dance final, February 20, 2018

Won Yun-jong, Jun Jung-lin, Seo Young-woo and Kim Dong-hyun of South Korea compete in men's 4-man bobsleigh.

Germany's Felix Schutz checks Canada's Maxim Noreau into the boards in the men's hockey semifinal match.

Hosting the Olympics could be seen as an opportunity to upgrade the country's infrastructure or bring in more tourists from all over the globe. However, the event comes with a hefty price tag, as Korea has spent 13 billion dollars to host the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics including $1.5 billion in erecting state-of-the-art stadia used for the 17-day sporting event.

A second Russian athlete has failed a doping test at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, days after a Russian curler had to hand back a bronze medal over a doping offense, reviving once again the doping scandal that has hung around Russia at the Games and hurting the country's chances of being reinstated for the closing ceremony this weekend.

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored the winning goal in a shootout to give the United States a 3-2 victory against Canada, the four-time defending Olympic champions.

She's practiced the 'Oops, I did it again' thousands of times in training, and on Thursday her signature trick was worth its weight in Olympic gold as American Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson's shootout winner broke a Canadian 16-year stranglehold on the women's ice hockey title.

Jessica Diggins of the U.S reacts as she crosses the finish line to win ahead of Stina Nilsson of Sweden in the cross-country team sprint.