Tribune Olympic Bureau

His blue racing goggles perched atop his long brown hair, Gerard van Velde paced around the infield. Periodically he stole looks at the big scoreboard at the Utah Olympic Oval....

As a kid, Natalie Darwitz used to tag along to her brother Ryan's hockey practices. Dad was the coach, so 8-year-old Natalie jumped in line and ran through drills with...

No one would dispute that fairness is the basic issue in the Olympic pairs figure skating controversy, resolved Friday when the International Olympic Committee made the unprecedented decision to award...

In a bizarre finish with skaters strewn all over the ice and fans booing, Apolo Anton Ohno claimed a silver medal Saturday night by crawling across the finish line of...

The U.S. men's hockey team took to the ice to raucous approval in the 8,400-seat E Center on Friday, one week shy of the 22-year anniversary of the "Miracle on...

Norway's Kjetil Andre Aamodt added to his record heap of alpine Olympic medals with his second gold, winning the super-giant slalom Saturday by keeping his grip on a treacherous late-run...

The United States vs. Russia. Olympic hockey. On U.S. soil. It happened late Saturday night in Utah. It happened 22 years ago in Lake Placid. The Cold War ended. The...

You would think a Canadian, coming from a place with all that snow, would have skied cross country faster at some time since the Winter Games began in 1924. But...

In an attempt to end an Olympic figure skating controversy that has preoccupied the North American media, the International Olympic Committee made the unprecedented decision Friday to award a second...

Four years ago, the United States' Olympic doubles luge teams provided history. Friday, they provided an encore. In the long run, the latter is more important for an American luge...