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The United States Nordic combined program has been salvaged for the upcoming World Cup season, receiving desperately needed financial help from the International Ski and Snowboard Federation.
During the 2024 Olympics, crowds from Paris to Tahiti have surprised even themselves with their enthusiasm for two and a half weeks of sports.
Salt Lake City has been formally awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics following a vote by the International Olympic Committee in Paris.
Shaun White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar.
Many other past Olympic hosts around the world have decided in recent years that bringing back the Games isn’t worth the money or hassle.
Two of Russia’s top swimmers who could be eligible for the next year’s Olympics have been drug tested by their country’s anti-doping agency only twice apiece in 2023.
Russia’s reintegration into the world of sports one year after the invasion of Ukraine began threatens to create the biggest rift in the Olympic movement since the Cold War.
Costly construction delays, a leadership vacancy linked to a volatile political climate and a lack of sponsors amid a spreading financial crisis has prompted International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to acknowledge the “challenges” facing organizers of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
U.S. cross-country skiing star Jessie Diggins rewrote history at the 2022 Winter Olympics going up against some of the biggest names in skiing like Jonna Sundling of Sweden and Therese Johaug of Norway. The women's 30km mass start free closed the curtain on the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The 2022 Games saw breakout stars in almost every sport, ranging from freestyle skier Eileen Gu to speed skater Nils van der Poel. Check out why these athletes earned a spot on our list of notable Olympic athletes.
Bart Swings of Belgium won the men's mass start final, while American Joey Mantia crossed the line fourth in a photo finish.
Results, updates, and news from Day 15 of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Saturday, February 19.
Justine Braisaz-Bouchet of France won the final gold medal of the women’s 2022 Olympics biathlon program. She crossed the finish line of the 12.5km mass start at 40:18:0 after missing four targets.
Norway could set a record for the total number of gold medals won by a country at a single Winter Olympics in Beijing but for chef de mission Tore Oevreboe enjoying themselves and creating good relationships is more important than winning.
Ireen Wuest, the all-time leader in speed skating medals, closed out her final Olympic Games with a sixth-place finish in the women's 1000m.
Results, updates, and news from Day 13 of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Thursday, February 17.
Twenty years after becoming the first Black athlete to win gold at the Winter Olympics, American bobsledder Vonetta Flowers reflects on her legacy -- one that was critical in molding the United States' dominant bobsled team.
Results, updates, and news from Day 10 of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, February 16.
Following Olympic history makers Su Yiming, Chris Corning and Ayumu Hirano’s groundbreaking performances, one question remains: what’s next?
World record-setting speed skater Nils van der Poel spent time in the army, skydiving and biking across Sweden in between Winter Olympics.
Nathan Crumpton carried the tradition of braving the cold during the Opening Ceremony, now he braves the icy skeleton course.
Results, updates and news from Day 7 of competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, February 11.
Jessie Diggins came into the women’s 10km individual competition after her historic bronze medal win that solidified the first ever women’s individual cross-country sprint medal for the United States at the Winter Olympics. The 10km competition spanned over 6 miles and tested Diggins’ ability to recover mentally and physically after her win on Tuesday.
Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States is one of the greatest snowboarders of all-time with five world championships and eight X-Games titles, but had been known more for a giant mess-up than all of her other accomplishments.
Mikaela Shiffrin did not advance past the first run of the women's slalom after skiing out for the second time at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The first day of Nordic Combined competition started with the men’s individual gundersen normal hill/10km. Competitors went up against Germany’s double-threat Vinzenz Geiger, who has found success in his sport by living through his favorite saying "go hard or go home."
Stratton Mountain School has sent 46 alumni to the Olympics, and several are competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Learn more in this episode of The Podium.
The fastest men's downhill race in Olympic history was won by the ever-consistent Beat Feuz, while a surprise silver medalist made history.
Freestyle aerial skier Winter Vinecki, who also happens to be a marathon runner and gymnastics fan, finds common ground with Elizabeth Beisel about turning loss into positive action.
Katie Uhlaender's schedule for the 2022 Winter Olympics: when, where and how to watch or stream every event via NBC, Peacock, USA Network and NBCOlympics.com.
Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first to rely almost entirely on artificial snow for the skiing and snowboarding events.
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee chair Susanne Lyons said on Friday that Salt Lake City already has venues in place from the 2002 Winter Olympics.
With Brianna Decker out for the remainder of the Olympics, the U.S. will need a few of its top players to step up and fill the void.
A correspondent in Beijing for Dutch national broadcaster NOS was manhandled away from his camera during a live news show shortly before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
United States skaters Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue are the only ice dancers to medal at each of the past three world championships.
On Wednesday morning, Team USA men's curling skip John Shuster was named the United States flagbearer at the 2022 Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony. His friends and teammates took to social media to congratulate him on the honor.
Just 14 years after hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing is set to make history by becoming the first city to play host to both a Summer and Winter Olympics when it welcomes the world for the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Beijing residents are coping with abrupt local lockdowns and sweeping COVID-19 testing requirements as the Chinese capital seeks to prevent a coronavirus outbreak ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics in less than two weeks.
Chinese authorities are testing some 2 million residents of Beijing after a series of virus cases prompted concerns two weeks ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics.
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 Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing will allow China to show the world “a fake smile,” just as it did for the 2008 Summer Games.
A major Chinese city near Beijing has placed its 14 million residents on partial lockdown after 40 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant.
The Podium podcast from NBC Sports dives into the sport of biathlon and talks to Lowell Bailey and Clare Egan about the progress that the U.S. is making.
The Podium podcast from NBC Sports explores how embracing innovation paid off with a gold medal for both John Shuster and Hardline Curling
On The Podium podcast from NBC Sports, Andre Horton and Brian Rice discussed their personal experiences as Black athletes in winter sports and the push for more diversity at ski resorts,
Kristen Santos became the first American to qualify for the 2022 Winter Olympics in short track at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Utah.
The United States' mixed doubles curling duo of Chris Plys and Vicky Persinger is just one win away from earning a spot at the Winter Olympics.
