Charlotte Kalla won the women's skiathlon cross country race ahead of Norway's Marit Bjoergen

Sweden's Kalla Charlotte wins first gold medal of Winter Olympics

The invitation, delivered by Kim's visiting sister Kim Yo Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South`s leader 'at the earliest date possible', said a spokesman for the presidential Blue House

Kim Jong Un's sister invites South Korean president to Pyongyang

Two people dressed up as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on Friday were swiftly being shown out by security staff

'Trump' and 'Kim' appeared at opening ceremony of Winter Olympics

The first combined Korean team in Olympic history suffered a resounding 8-0 defeat to Switzerland in women's ice hockey

Switzerland trounces unified Korean ice hockey team

Short-track speed skater Lim Hyo-jun claimed a first gold medal for South Korea

Lim strikes first gold for Olympic hosts South Korea

The number of new norovirus cases is a steep drop-off from the 42 new cases confirmed on Thursday and 54 a day earlier

Olympics: Norovirus outbreak tapers off as Games get underway

The 23rd Winter Olympics will feature 102 events in 15 sports and athletes from all over the world

Google celebrates 23rd Winter Olympics

The IOC is providing Galaxy Note 8 devices from Olympic sponsor Samsung to all athletes and officials at the Games, loaded with essential logistical and competition information

North Koreans decline Olympic phones: reports

47 Russian athletes and staff implicated in doping have lost a last-minute court bid to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday

47 Russians lose late court bid to compete at Olympics

The ceremony will also be attended by a senior delegation of North Korean officials, including the younger sister of leader Kim Jong Un and the North`s nominal head of state, Kim Yong Nam.

North Korea says no US talks planned at Olympics as Pence heads to Seoul

Almost all the dog meat restaurants in South Korea`s Pyeongchang county, where the Winter Olympics opening ceremony will be held on Friday, have defied a government request to stop serving the food, an official admitted Thursday

South Korea dog meat restaurants refuse to stop serving during Olympics

Speaking in Tokyo on his way to South Korea, which is hosting the Games over the next three weeks, Pence said he would soon announce the stepped-up sanctions in an effort to pressure the North to abandon its nuclear and missile programmes.

Ahead of Olympics face-off, Mike Pence vows new North Korea sanctions

Amid all the chaos, North and South Korea will march as an unified team under a neutral Korean peninsula flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday

Winter Olympics: North Korean art troupe hit by protests in South

In an increasingly privatised sports place, with a hardening monoculture of fewer and fewer sports and competitors, the Olympics provide the greatest range of national and regional accessibility.

Opinion: Do the Olympics still matter?

Bach said it had been a "long and difficult journey" to organise an Olympics in Korea, whose two sides are divided and remain technically at war

Pyeongchang Olympics brings 'real hope' to divided Koreas, says Bach

Organisers of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic games are warning spectators that they will face sub-zero temperatures during the tournament

Winter Olympics 2018 likely to be 'coldest' in history

South Korea has banned 36,000 foreigners from entering the country ahead of the Winter Olympics, citing security concerns

Winter Olympics: South Korea bans entry of 36k foreigners due to 'security concern'

Coal shipments were delivered to China, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam by ships using 'a combination of multiple evasion techniques, routes and deceptive tactics,' a UN report said

North Korea flouting sanctions, earned $200 mn from banned exports: UN

The team, including figure skating pair Kim Ju Sik and Ryom Tae Ok, three alpine skiers, three cross-country skiers and two short-track skaters flew in to join 12 ice hockey players who arrived in South Korea last month

North Korean Olympians arrive at athletes' village

To overcome communication issues the South's sports authorities put together a list of the different vocabularies and distributed it to the players

Winter Olympics: Unified Korean ice hockey team lost in translation

The ice hockey squad comprises of 23 South Korean players and 12 North Koreans.

North Korea won't hold joint Olympic performance on own soil: South Korea

The country's fertility rate -- an average number of babies women are expected to have in their lifetime -- stood at 1.17 in 2016, the lowest in the world and compared to a global average of 2.4

The woman battling South Korea's 'birth strike'

What seems to be on is a crisis avoidance exercise by North Korea to prevent a nuclear war for the time being by “Sports Diplomacy”.

Opinion: Is sports diplomacy a new game plan of North Korea?

There were reports of both countries coming together to host a joint skating and ice-hockey team but it hasn't been confirmed.

North Korea to send 230 cheerleaders for Winter Olympics

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