![]() ![]() Samsung Electronics launched its Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games mobile app, Wireless Olympic Works ( WOW ), turning the world’s Android devices into mobile sports stations that fans can use to personalize their own Olympic Winter Games experience. Samsung’s WOW (Wireless Olympic Works) now available offers personalized experience, athlete cheering feature and tutorial on all 15 sporting events for Sochi 2014 Samsung WOW App Connect s Millions Worldwide to Public WOW app supports Chinese, English, French, German, Korean, Russian and Spanish.Samsung’s Public WOW app can be downloaded from Samsung App store and Google Play, obtaining unprecedented access to the excitement of the Olympic Winter Games.Global Olympic Games fan can also share their celebrations with other WOW app users instantly and can feel truly integrated into the Olympic Winter Games experience thanks to the location-based Olympic Winter Games venue guide.With Samsung Public Wow app, sports fans can have real-time access to event schedules, latest reports on results, medal standings, and Olympic records reliably and fast.Samsung launched its Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games mobile app, Wireless Olympic Works (WOW), enabling users to personalize their own Olympic Winter Games experience._ĪP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report. Rowing will only allow single sculls and pairs, no larger Russian crews. World Archery is exploring plans for a Russian return but said in February it would be “very unlikely” this year, potentially restricting Russia to a limited number of events in the months just before the Olympics.Ĭanoeing is planning to allow Russians back in some Olympic qualifiers but is giving the local organizers of each competition a veto. Some sports like archery have delayed things further. Russia is boycotting weightlifting events after its team refused to sign a waiver accepting the conditions for “neutral” status, including a promise to “continue to abstain from expressing any support to the war.” Belarusian athletes signed and are competing. The IOC also recommends a ban on “team events in individual sports” like relay races or the team all-around in gymnastics. In some events, like men’s basketball and soccer, Russia has already missed its last chance to qualify. The IOC still backs excluding Russia from team sports and no Olympic sport has yet defied that regulation. TEAM SPORTSĭon’t expect to see Russian teams competing in soccer, volleyball, basketball or handball at the Paris Olympics. Competition organizers in several European countries canceled their events in protests, disrupting the Olympic qualifying calendar, and the European Championships were stripped of their status as a qualifier when Poland refused to allow Russians to compete. The International Fencing Federation - whose former president, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, said last year he was stepping aside from his duties - has been a strong supporter of reintroducing Russian and Belarusian fencers this year. ![]() Ukraine is also boycotting some events at the fencing world championships in Italy, another key Olympic qualifier. The International Judo Federation, which had last year opposed excluding any Russians, said all the Russian competitors were employed at a state sports training facility. In judo the “neutral” delegation of Russian athletes included some previously listed by the Defense Ministry as holding military ranks. Ukraine boycotted the world championships in both judo and taekwondo, taking a big hit to its Olympic qualifying hopes, after Russians were allowed to compete. Sports like fencing, judo and taekwondo have seen some of the bitterest disputes. That could mean any Russian return only happens at two last-chance qualifying tournaments in early 2024. A plan to qualify Russians via the Asian Games has been suggested but not confirmed. Qualifiers were held at the European Games in June but the host nation, Poland, refused to allow any Russian athletes. The IOC is running Olympic boxing in Paris and qualifiers in-house after a long-running feud with the International Boxing Association and its Russian president. This is the one sport the IOC has total control over, but that doesn’t mean a quick decision. Other Russian gymnasts appeared on stage at a rally in support of the war, and Olympic gold medalist Nikita Nagornyy heads a military youth organization in Russia. Days after the invasion, Ivan Kuliak wore a pro-war “Z” symbol on a competition podium while standing next to a Ukrainian athlete. Russian gymnasts have been some of the most vocal supporters of the war. ![]()
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