Kirsty Coventry has had a successful first Olympics as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) because she let ...

I have lived in the Olympic Village. I have traded pins with rivals, whispered good luck to competitors, and gone to bed earlier than I ever have in my ...

It was a historic moment for ski mountaineering on Thursday, as athletes accepted the sport's first-ever Olympic medals in ...

A few decades ago, Dubai was a small town overlooking a sluggish creek where pearl fishermen and merchants traded from a maze of souks. Today, visitors arrive on super-jumbos to be cocooned in ...

Inspired by Olympic success (and comedian Stephen Colbert?), people are discovering the sport of curling. Learn how local clubs are growing the game.

They will serve as a blueprint for future editions or how to host a Games without losing its essential snow-bound setting.

This bar has more history than most museums and more fun than most parties. Capt Tony’s Saloon is one of Florida’s oldest bars. You can feel the decades of stories soaked into the walls. The building ...

One of the more interesting and more dangerous Olympic events is skeleton. Skeleton involves an athlete sliding down an ice track in a sled. Sounds simple ... except that the athletes go headfirst ...

Setback for Team GB’s Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt Great Britain’s skeleton team have been banned from wearing its new aerodynamic helmets at the Winter Olympics after the court of arbitration for ...

The Winter Olympics feature a variety of sledding sports. Two of the most well known are bobsled and luge. And then there's skeleton. From the name to the sport itself, skeleton is a bit more of an ...

Mystique Ro used to dream of being on the U.S. Olympic track team. Now, she's a U.S. medal hope in skeleton. Robert Michael / dpa via Associated Press To hear Mystique Ro talk about the first time she ...

Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics for “refusing to adhere” to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) athlete expression guidelines ...