Olympic Games

Questions grew on Feb. 12 over why it took six weeks for Kamila Valieva's failed drug test to come to light, as the 15-year-old Russian figure skater fights to stay at the Beijing Olympics.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva gave a positive doping test on December 25 last year during the Russian national championship, the International Testing Agency (ITA) officially announced. Valieva, 15 years of age, used the banned substance trimetazidine.

For the 21st consecutive year, Novinite.com, the largest English-language news agency in Bulgaria, presents the "Personality in the News" awards.

"One world - one family. United together." This is the motto of the modest opening ceremony of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.

Olympic gold medalist recurve archer Mete Gazoz, who came first in the men's individual event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has said he expects to win four or five medals in the future.

The lights of the Christmas tree in Sofia will light up today at 6 p.m. in front of the National Palace of Culture.

“I owed it to the people and I thank them all. Both along the way and in Kallimarmaro, they really motivated me to do what I did”

The Olympic flame for the 2022 Beijing Olympics arrived in China this morning, the country's media reported.

The 2020 Paralympic Games will kick off in Tokyo with the opening ceremony on Tuesday as Japan struggles with its worst COVID-19 outbreak so far, record daily cases and an overwhelmed medical system.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared 22-year-old Mete Gazoz, a recurve archer who bagged a gold medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, an "idol" at a dinner ceremony held at the Presidential Complex in the capital Ankara.

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"Mete has become an idol who will make archery to be loved by coming generations," he said.