Winter Olympic Games

'Sonic the Hedgehog' vid games coming to Nintendo

5 days ago

Cheng said the characters would be back for more match-ups in "Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Russia scraps visas for foreign athletes

9 days ago

Russia is hosting the Winter Olympics next year and the soccer World Cup in 2018.

The latest news from the USOC - March 19

64 days ago

FIGURE SKATINGIn ladies competition, Ashley Wagner (Alexandria, Va.) and Gracie Gold (Chicago, Ill.) finished fifth and sixth at the 2013 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London, Ontario,...

Olympics expected to affect next Oscars date

85 days ago

The timing of the Winter Olympics is likely to affect other awards shows, too.

Hockey great Eruzione jersey scores almost $660K

87 days ago

The jersey worn by hockey great Mike Eruzione (uh-roo-zee-OAN'-ee) in the U.S. Miracle on Ice victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics has been auctioned in New York for almost...

5 Olympians Who Went to Court | Dallas-Fort Worth Sports News - Sports News on...

90 days ago

Montgomery was later sentenced to almost 10 years jail time for his part in a $5 million check-fraud conspiracy - which also ensnared Jones and his former coach Steve Riddick, a relay gold...

Americans finish 1-2 in Russian skeleton race

95 days ago

Pikus-Pace finished the two-run event in 1 minute, 58.91 seconds, 0.11 ahead of Uhlaender at Sanki Sliding Center, set to host the 2014 Winter Olympics next year.

Column: Swifter, higher, stronger? Or just dumber?

98 days ago

That's why the Winter Olympics look more and more like the "X Games," and why basketball, soccer and tennis - with golf and rugby on the way - are now "core" sports, even though they're chockfull...

Calgary's 1988 Winter Games legacy thriving

99 days ago

Canada Olympic Park, Scotiabank Saddledome, Canmore Nordic Centre, the Olympic Oval and Nakiska Ski Resort continue to serve all levels of athletes, from recreational to Olympian to pro.

Baumann leads super-combined; Ligety lurks in 6th

100 days ago

Ligety won the combined in the old format with two slalom runs at the 2006 Turin Olympics, but he's never been on the podium in super-combined.

Vonn vows to come back strong from injury at 2014 Winter Olympics

101 days ago

Lindsey Vonn said Wednesday she will work hard in her bid to return to skiing from a severe knee injury for next year's Olympics in Sochi.

IOC, Sochi mark one year until 2014 Games

104 days ago

"These will be the first Olympic Winter Games to be held in Russia, and the Russians are eager to welcome the world to the shores of the Black Sea and the mountains of the Caucasus.

Putin: Fire senior Russian Olympic official

104 days ago

A year before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be fired.

Migrant workers at Sochi Olympic sites face abuses

105 days ago

The Olympic venues where workers interviewed by Human Rights Watch reported abuse are the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Village and the media center in the coastal cluster.

IOC's Rogge praises prep for 2014 Sochi Games

105 days ago

"Russia's first Winter Olympics will take place in a coastal cluster along the Black Sea resort and in the surrounding mountain region.

Column: Vonn back at the bottom of the hill again

105 days ago

She went straight from the hospital to the starting gate at the 2006 Turin Olympics, just two days after flying off the training course going well over 50 mph, and competed in four of her five...

Vonn out for season with ruptured knee ligaments, fracture

106 days ago

""She will be out for the remainder of this season but is expected to return to racing for the 2013-14 World Cup season and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

Prime-time coverage of Winter Games to start early

106 days ago

Prime-time coverage of the Winter Olympics will start a day early next year in Sochi.

Back in form, Vonn aiming for gold at ski worlds

108 days ago

And at the 2006 Turin Olympics, she had a horrific crash in downhill training and went directly from her hospital room to the mountain to compete in four of her five events.

Putin sacks leader of volatile Russian province

114 days ago

Monday's ouster of Magomedsalam Magomedov appears to reflect Kremlin concern about rising violence in Dagestan, which lies 550 kilometers (340 miles) east of the city of Sochi, the host of the...

Winging it no more: Holmstrom retires

120 days ago

He won two more titles (2002, 2008), and was part of his native country's 2006 Winter Olympic gold-medal triumph over rival Finland.

BMW designs two-man bobsled for U.S. men's team

120 days ago

The team wanted to get the new sled on the ice as soon as it arrived in Europe so that it could start gathering data and making tweaks in preparation for next season and the upcoming Winter...

Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan marries in RI

122 days ago

She won 43 championships, the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and bronze at the 2002 Games.

American Pikus-Pace wins skeleton at Koenigsee

131 days ago

The American and 2007 world champion was injured before the 2006 Olympics and finished fourth in 2010, after which she retired.

Congress bends rules to rename Yosemite-area peak

142 days ago

Congress stretched the rules a bit by naming a Yosemite National Park-area mountain after the late Olympic star and longtime Mono County, Calif., Supervisor Andrea Lawrence.

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