Tribune Olympic Bureau

Speedskater Shani Davis' victory in 1,000 meters makes him the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal in the Winter Olympics. However, at the Salt Lake City Games...

One of a handful of black faces in the crowd was screaming for the only one on the ice. "He's got to smoke it on that last lap!" shouted Reginald...

Almost three years ago, thieves broke into Finn Aamodt's home in Oslo and stole the 19 Olympic and world championship medals his son, Kjetil Andre, had left there for safekeeping....

Hours after he had wasted a chance at a gold medal by straddling a slalom gate in Tuesday's Olympic combined, Bode Miller was photographed kissing a buxom Playboy playmate at...

Prawat Nagvajara hobbled down an icy path in an empty white field, dirt staining his body suit, a smile on his face. During his 15-kilometer jaunt through a snowstorm, the...

Enough similarities exist between Emily Hughes and her sister, 2002 figure-skating gold medalist Sarah, that it was no surprise when someone addressed Emily as "Sarah" on Friday, which marked Emily's...

This was not a high-speed fall, but it still made U.S. skier Lindsey Kildow wince. In the second run of Friday's combined slalom, as she was trying to turn the...

So how do you say "miracle" in Swedish? Maria Rooth, her country's newest sporting heroine, smiled at that question Friday evening. "Mir-ak-el," she said, stressing the middle syllable instead of...

That's it, Sweden: You just made the list. Before Friday's 3-2 shootout loss, only Canada had beaten the U.S. women's hockey team in international play, having beaten them in eight...

The first of several days Shani Davis has been eagerly pointing toward arrives Saturday, when the Chicago speedskater duels U.S. teammates Chad Hedrick and Joey Cheek in the 1,000 meters....