At the opening ceremony of the push track, a training facility for the bobsleigh start, at PyeongChang, Tuesday, four men, looking similar to Koreans, approached with purpose.
They were Mongolian bobsleighers here with their coaches, to learn the skills and training methods necessary to compete in the bobsleigh and skeleton.
ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA — In the two decades since the Soviet Union dissolved and Mongolia became an independent democracy, the country has struggled to resuscitate cultural traditions lost during its many years as a Soviet satellite.
In a city centre gym, two girls pound nine bells out of each other, to roars of approval from the crowd.
Wrestling, not boxing, is the sport most people associate with Mongolia but the latter is becoming more and more popular, thanks in part to the achievements of one man.
He is sitting in the stands, watching the bout intently. His name is Badar Uugan Enkhbaty
The fifth Women’s Grand Prix got underway Friday in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and three players jumped out to the lead with victories in Round 1.
The Grand Prix is a six-tournament series to help select a challenger for the world championship. The World Chess Federation, which is running the Grand Prix, has said in the past that the winner of the series will be the challenger.
The fifth Women's Chess Grand Prix opened in Mongolia on Thursday.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said,"the tournament is the highest ranking in the history of women's chess championships and tournaments.
In the tournament, four former world champions will compete simultaneously.
Intrepid traveler, photographer and eater Uta Beyer has more on Mongolian cuisine following a recent visit to Mongolia. Here's what she writes about boortsog, the Mongolian national cookie:
"Well, over my years of travel, I have survived on bat in jungles of Borneo, nibbled on widgety grubs (giant Australian tree maggots) in the Australian outback, dined on cuy (guinea
FUSO, Aichi -- The sumo ranking committee has promoted seven wrestlers to the second-highest juryo division for the autumn tournament, including one Mongolian grappler here who was caught up in the recent baseball gambling scandal that shook the sumo world to its foundations.
Twenty-six-year-old Shironoryu, who acquired Japanese citizenship last year, was allowed to pa
