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Vancouver Games officials confident Cypress ready
Vancouver Olympic officials are confident concerns about the warm weather's affect on conditions at Cypress Mountain soon will be forgotten.
updated: 0 minutes ago

Doping lab already testing dozens of samples
The scientist in charge of Vancouver's state-of-the-art doping lab says her staff already has tested more than 200 blood and urine samples from Olympic athletes.
updated: 43 minutes ago

Organizers can't wait for first Canadian gold
Just like most of the entire country, Vancouver organizers are waiting for the moment when Canada finally wins its first Olympic gold medal on home soil.
updated: Feb 9th - 1:00pm

Reutter top US hopeful in women's short track
Katherine Reutter remembers figure skating lessons as a little girl, thinking how much more fun it would be to just cut loose and zip around the rink as fast as she could.
updated: Feb 9th - 10:14am

Kramer wants to turn Olympics into Svencouver
What Sven Kramer wants, Sven Kramer gets. What the Dutch speedskater wants is an Olympic gold medal.
updated: Feb 9th - 9:17am

IOC, USOC begin talks on improving relations
U.S. and international Olympic leaders opened discussions Monday in a bid to improve relations and settle the financial issues that have isolated the Americans from the rest of the Olympic movement.
updated: Feb 8th - 11:51pm

US Olympians begin checking in at Vancouver
Noelle Pikus-Pace gasped as she glanced around the hotel ballroom to see the mountains of boxes piled around and overflowing with red-white-and-blue U.S. Olympic gear.
updated: Feb 8th - 11:09pm

Whatever the weather, US moguls team is ready
Cypress Mountain passed a major test Monday, as freestyle skiers completed their first pre-Olympic practice sessions and Winter Olympic organizers kept dumping snow on competition courses in unseasonably warm weather.
updated: Feb 8th - 10:21pm

US ski jumpers struggle to make ends meet
No money, no opening ceremonies and maybe no really meaningful competition. It's not easy being a part of the U.S. Olympic Ski Jumping team.
updated: Feb 8th - 10:12pm

Rogge expresses concern about Russian doping cases
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge urged Russia on Monday to get tougher on drug cheats, voicing his concern at the high number of doping cases among Russian biathletes and cross-country skiers.
updated: Feb 8th - 8:37pm

Canadian Alpine team brimming with confidence
Manuel Osborne-Paradis isn't shying away from the attention and high expectations of an entire nation as the Canadian Alpine ski team prepares for the Vancouver Games.
updated: Feb 8th - 7:11pm

Schwarzenegger, Coe to run Vancouver torch relay
Arnold Schwarzenegger will hand the Olympic torch off to Sebastian Coe on Friday morning, the day of the opening ceremony at the Vancouver Games.
updated: Feb 8th - 4:49pm

Art or sport? Figure skating strives to be both
Rachael Flatt's free skate would have the best athletes in any sport gasping for air, their leg muscles spasming in pain. Seven times she launches herself into the air, doing three quick turns before landing on a blade no thicker than a pencil.
updated: Feb 8th - 1:47pm

Janka carries Swiss hopes for overdue Alpine gold
Carlo Janka was just a toddler when his ski-obsessed nation last won Olympic gold in men's Alpine racing.
updated: Feb 8th - 10:23am

As Ligety, Mancuso proved, upsets happen in skiing
This was one wager U.S. Alpine racer Julia Mancuso's ski technician was all too willing to lose, even if it involved a little public embarrassment.
updated: Feb 8th - 9:34am

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