Olympics

The Ukrainian Olympic Committee says the team "expresses a unanimous call for peace together with (our) native country.”

Shaun White’s brilliant and transcendent Olympic career is over. It ended with a fall on his final run down the halfpipe, a heartfelt ovation from the crowd and then a tearful farewell to a sport he helped define.

Both the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Testing Agency — on behalf of the IOC -- said Friday they would fight the decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to allow the 15-year-old Kamila Valieva to skate.

Ashley Caldwell, Christopher Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld each earned their first Winter Games medals.

The positive test could cost Russia the gold medal from the team competition and threaten Valieva’s chance to win the individual competition that starts Tuesday. She is the heavy favorite.

The 22-year-old followed his record short program at the Beijing Games with a near-perfect free skate.

Kim joins fellow American Shaun White as the only snowboarders to defend their Olympic titles in the halfpipe.

The ceremony to award gold to Russia, silver to the United States silver and bronze to Japan was not held as scheduled Tuesday.

The 36-year-old became the oldest U.S woman to win a gold; also, her 16-year gap between medals marked the longest for any U.S. woman.

Shiffrin came to China as one of the biggest stars at the Winter Olympics, an Alpine skier in the spotlight since she was a teenager.

Three-time Olympian Jessie Diggins won her first individual Olympic medal, a bronze, in the women’s individual sprint freestyle final on Day 4.

NBC spokesman Greg Hughes said Monday night that some of Jones’ videos that were blocked were the result of a “third-party error” and not NBC.

The 22-year-old Chen avenged his poor performance from four years ago in Pyeongchang in the biggest way possible.

Kamila Valieva became the first woman to land a quad in the Olympics and her historic free skate put a stamp on the Russians' dominant run to the gold medal in the team event at the Beijing Games.

The premise of this bubble is simple: Keep those who passed multiple tests just to get access to the Olympics in, keep the rest of the world — and, hopefully, COVID-19 — out.

The 26-year-old American was trying to become the first Alpine ski racer from the country to win three Olympic golds.

During a reflective, sometimes emotional news conference Saturday, not far from the halfpipe where he’ll take his last competitive ride, the 35-year-old said that, yes, he’ll be hanging ‘em up for good.

Team USA marches into National Stadium, otherwise known as the “Bird’s Nest,” during the Opening Ceremony for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Friday’s primetime Opening Ceremony begin at 7:00 p.m. CST.

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the Games open during an opening ceremony heavy on ice-blue tones and winter imagery that was held in the same lattice-encased National Stadium that hosted the inaugural event at the 2008 Olympics.

The 2022 Winter Olympics open Friday under heavy security and warnings from officials that athletes or others could face legal action if they speak out on human rights or other touchy issues.

Stacker compiled roster data from Team USA and the U.S. Census Bureau to break down how many Olympians hail from each state, based on what athletes named as their home states for every Olympic year data was available.

The 31-year-old Timothy LeDuc and pairs partner Ashley Cain-Gribble won their second national title last month in Nashville, giving them a spot in their first Olympics.

A total of 32 new cases — 15 in tests of people arriving at the airport and 17 within the Olympic bubbles — were reported by the Beijing organizing committee on Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony.

Figures released by local organizers showed 11 positive tests for COVID-19 among 379 athletes and officials arriving Monday.

Organizers want to keep any infections from getting out of the bubble, as well as spreading within the bubble, a heightened concern with the easily transmissible omicron variant. Everyone is tested daily — failing to get tested the previous evening means being stuck in your hotel the next day.

Now, figure skating’s latest rivalry will climax at the Beijing Games next month, when three-time reigning world champion Nathan Chen once more faces two-time defending Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu at the Capital Indoor Stadium.

People in a Beijing district with some 2 million residents have been ordered to undergo mass coronavirus testing following a series of infections as China tightened anti-disease controls ahead of the Winter Olympics.

The flame will be displayed only in enclosed venues that are deemed “safe and controllable,” according to officials.

Bobsledder Aja Evans, a bronze medalist at Sochi and an alternate this time around, was pleased with the new gear that she modeled for media at the Polo Ralph Lauren store in Soho downtown.

The core message resonating inside the U.S. Olympic family over the last few years has been the medals shouldn’t matter as much as the athletes who compete.