Skaters find redemption, disappointment in Torino

With the 2010 World Championships beginning less than a month after the Closing Ceremony of the Vancouver Games, a few of the Olympic medalists opted out. Many of those who did compete were tired and under-prepared, but some managed to win medals. For the skaters who fell short of their Olympic aspirations, the world championships offered a chance at redemption.


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Published: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:33:32 GMT

Fourcade, Hauswald win World Cup biathlon pursuits

Martin Fourcade of France  won his third straight biathlon World cup race Saturday after protecting his lead to take the 12.5-kilometer pursuit.


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Published: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:24:37 GMT

Vonn takes World Cup downhill title

Lindsey Vonn is on a roll. Fresh off winning her first Olympic gold medal in Vancouver last month and unofficially clinching the super-combined globe Friday, Vonn bagged another globe Saturday in the downhill. She eked out a win over Italy's Johanna Schnarf at Crans Montana to secure the discipline title.


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Published: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:14:34 GMT

Vonn third in DH training Thursday; Goergl first

Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn was third in a training run for a World Cup downhill race. The two-time defending World Cup overall winner was 0.73 seconds behind Elisabeth Goergl on Thursday.

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Published: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:27:36 GMT

Day in Review: Day 17

Canada's Sidney Crosby gets it done in overtime, Petter Northug takes the final individual gold medal of the Games and more from Day 17 in Vancouver.


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Published: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:52:36 GMT

U.S. sets medals record; Canada tops in gold

The Vancouver Olympics and the medals race both finished in spectacular fashion for North Americans. The United States won 37 medals and Canada finished with 14 gold medals. Both are the best of these games and part of the greatest hauls ever at a Winter Olympics.

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Published: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:17:37 GMT

Five takeaways from Day 16

A dive across the finish line, an American bobsled breakthrough and quick U.S. slalom exits were all part of the action on Day 16.


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Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:12:41 GMT

Olympic champion Lange retires

The only bobsled driver to win four Olympic golds, Lange's brilliant racing career ended Saturday with a second-place finish in the four-man competition. The driver who had never been beaten inside the rings couldn't catch USA-1 driver Steve Holcomb, ending a 62-year gold-medal drought for the Americans.


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Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:53:25 GMT

Day in Review: Day 16

Steve Holcomb wins the United States' first gold medal in bobsled since 1948, Jasey-Jay Anderson grabs Canada's second snowboarding gold, figure-skating woes for Russia and more from Day 16 in Vancouver.


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Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:32:48 GMT

Germany slides into pursuit gold medal

Germany edged out Japan to win the Olympic Games women's speed skating team pursuit title on Saturday, but only after golden girl Anna Friesinger-Postma had crawled comically across the line in the semi-finals.


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Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:58:57 GMT

Razzoli wins slalom; Miller, Ligety ski out

Giuliano Razzoli became the first Italian male since Alberto Tomba in 1992 to win Olympic gold in Alpine. Croatia's Ivica Kostelic won his second silver medal, followed by Sweden's Andre Myhrer. Nolan Kasper was the top American, in 24th.

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Published: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:37:44 GMT

Five takeaways from Day 15

U.S. men's hockey blitzed Finland, Apolo stepped into a short track whirlwind and American pursuits proved formidable on Day 15.


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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:57:09 GMT

Day in Review: Day 15

The U.S. men's hockey team routs Finland to earn a trip to the gold-medal game, slalom queen Maria Riesch wins gold and more from Day 15 in Vancouver.


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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:42:22 GMT

Holcomb, U.S. lead four-man bobsled

American Steve Holcomb takes the lead midway through four-man bobsled competition, with his "Night Train" squad 17 hundredths of a second ahead of Canada's Lyndon Rush and Andre Lange of Germany. But as heavy snow fell across the ultra-fast Whistler track, curve 13 proved to be too treacherous, as six teams crashed, including USA-2's John Napier.


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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:07:29 GMT

Sauerbreij wins 1st Dutch Olympic snowboard gold

Nicolien Sauerbreij of the Netherlands won the Olympic gold medal in women's parallel giant slalom, defeating Ekaterina Ilyukhina of Russia.

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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:58:29 GMT

Vonn skis out in finale, then assesses Games performance

Lindsey Vonn's Olympics is over after she skied out of the women's slalom, her last Alpine event in Vancouver.

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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:34:39 GMT

Bjoergen in pursuit of history

With three gold medals already in hand, Marit Bjoergen isn't about to get greedy.

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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:40:14 GMT

Holcomb looking to dance his way to Olympic gold

He's potbellied, barrel-chested, somehow able to squeeze 240 pounds into a racing suit that is stretched to the limit. He thought he was going blind a couple years ago. He carries a cell phone even when heading down an icy chute. He's Steven Holcomb - America's best bobsledder.



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Published: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:12:00 GMT

Day in Review: Day 14

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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:45:49 GMT

Mancuso seeks to diffuse Vonn situation after race

Julia Mancuso says the state of her relationship with U.S. teammate Lindsey Vonn has "been taken a little out of proportion" at these Olympics.

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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:29:38 GMT

Despite twists, turns and pain, Vonn will keep racing

WHISTLER (AP) -- Lindsey Vonn began these Olympics with a shin so badly bruised she didn't know if she could compete.

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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:59:51 GMT

Germany survive scare on rare lean day

Germany survived a scary moment on the world's fastest track in the women's Olympic bobsled competition and endured a rare day without a medal at Whistler's Sliding Centre on Wednesday.


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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:53:31 GMT

Norway golden in women's relay

Kristin Stoermer Steira's wait for a medal is over. The Norwegian won her first Olympic medal after she and her compatriots claimed gold in the women's 4x5km relay. Steira had been a four-time fourth place finisher at the Winter Olympics.


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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:55:20 GMT

Spillane in second after jumping

Two-time Olympic silver medalist Johnny Spillane will be in the second position during the cross-country portion of the Day 14 Nordic combined large hill event.


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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:58:41 GMT

Rebensburg wins giant slalom; Mancuso 8th

The Americans were held off the medal podium for the second consecutive Alpine event at Whistler Creekside on Thursday. Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won the women's giant slalom in a two-run time of 2:27.11.

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Published: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:04:29 GMT