After turning 40 in January, two weeks before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen was about to conclude an Olympic career that had spanned two decades. As a 20-year-old in Lillehammer, he finished 36th place in the 20km individual race, 28th in the 10km sprint, and was...
At seemingly every Olympiad, there is one athlete (or at most a few athletes) whose performance is so transcendent that he or she indelibly etches his or her name into the collective consciousness of winter sports fans. Of course, we also aren't all 90 years old... so as we celebrate the ninth decade of the IOC's recognition of winter...
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In general, Americans have been global afterthoughts in all of the Nordic disciplines -- but especially when it comes to cross-country skiing. No American woman has ever medaled at any distance at the Olympics, and the only U.S. podium finish remains Bill Koch's silver medal in the 30-kilometer...
