The newest Olympic winter sport, ski mountaineering, has been included in the programme to be held at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin in China, it has been announced.

Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, has been elected to host 2025 Asian Winter Games, it was announced today.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi has claimed here that the organisation was "not consulted" on the decision to award the 2029 Asian Winter Games to the planned Saudi Arabia resort of Trojena.

The yet-to-be-built Saudi resort of Trojena has been rubber-stamped as the host for the 2029 edition of the Asian Winter Games at the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly here today. 

A delegation from Saudi Arabia has arrived here to present its bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games, its latest effort to use sport to help establish itself on the world stage.

Saudi Arabia's bid to stage the Asian Winter Games in 2029 has received the backing of the Untied Arab Emirates.

The Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SOPC) have expressed an interest in hosting the 10^th Asian Winter Games at Trojena in Neom.

North Korean International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Chang Ung has left the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games early citing illness.

The Governor of Gangwon, where 2018 Winter Olympic Games host city Pyeongchang is located, has revealed the Province is considering a bid to co-host the 2021 Asian Winter Games with North Korea.

Four cross-country skiers from South Korea have been suspended from their national team for six months after drinking alcohol at this year's Asian Winter Games in Sapporo.

The Sapporo 2017 Asian Winter Games held last month were "doping-free", according to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).

Figures skating was the most popular sport at the Asian Winter Games, which drew to a close in Sapporo on Sunday (February 26), it has been revealed after full details of ticket sales were published. 

Budapest’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games was reduced to dust earlier this week, joining Hamburg, Rome and lest we forget Boston in being downed in this race alone. Just days before, Japanese officials and certainly a number of residents of Sapporo – although only a small sample size – were bustling with excitement about pursuing a bid for Winter Olympics.

Japan's Akira Lenting held off the close attentions of his Kazakh rivals to win the men’s 30 kilometre mass start cross-country competition at the Asian Winter Games.

Japan’s Arisa Murata claimed gold in the women’s moguls competition after producing a fine run to beat the defending champion Yuliya Galysheva of Kazakhstan at the Sapporo Bankei Ski Area.