In an era of man-made snow and tropical Winter Olympics, it is sometimes hard to remember that winter sports are at their heart a product of a specific set of climatic conditions falling into place just right to allow for diversions on the snow and ice. Few events magnify this reality more than the obsession of the speed-skating-mad...
In an era of man-made snow and tropical Winter Olympics, it is sometimes hard to remember that winter sports are at their heart a product of a specific set of climatic conditions falling into place just right to allow for diversions on the snow and ice. Few events magnify this reality more than the obsession of the speed-skating-mad...
In an era of man-made snow and tropical Winter Olympics, it is sometimes hard to remember that winter sports are at their heart a product of a specific set of climatic conditions falling into place just right to allow for diversions on the snow and ice. Few events magnify this reality more than the obsession of the speed-skating-mad...
The Olympics are almost a week in the rearview mirror, and now that there is some room for hindsight it is time to finally gauge the truly important, jingoistic matters that prevail when discussing the Olympics:
Which country did the best?!
It is a perpetual dilemma when discussing the Olympics, whether Winter or Summer. While the...
Two gold medals in a skiing career... it has ben an ever-elusive feat that only one Alpine skier from the United States had ever pulled off before the men's giant slalom commenced in Sochi. Neither Bode Miller nor Lindsey Vonn has yet to reach that level of achievement, their career opportunities dwindling away as Miller...
With one week left to go in the Olympiad and 42 medals left to hand out, we're just beyond the halfway point of the 2014 Sochi Games. With that in mind, let's take a quick look at where each nation stands in the medal count and then look how the top countries took charge of their...
The medal round of the women's snowboard cross commenced at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park without several major names. Absent was defending gold medalist Maelle Ricker, who crashed in her quarterfinal heat and failed to reach even the semifinals. Already dealing with a wrist injury that required surgery before she came to Sochi,...
So far in these Olympics, the U.S. Alpine skiing squad has had a rough time in Sochi. The women have gamely soldiered on despite the absence of the injured Lindsey Vonn from the ski hill at Krasnaya Polyana, though success has been harder to come by for American women in Russia than it was in Canada.
Julia Mancuso...
Luge first arrived on the Olympic scene in 1964 at the Innsbruck Winter Games. A unified German team, with athletes from East and West alike, swept the men's podium and saw its women take gold and silver in the new event. Since that point, Germans have dominated the event like no other nation.
Entering Sochi, Germany...
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...
