Tribune Olympic Bureau

It finally took a bunch of hard-charging, flat-footed good ol' boarders to get these Winter Olympics running wide open. Did you see it? The banking, the biting, the drifting, the...

The big trains just keep on chugging toward a head-on collision in women's hockey. But before the U.S. and Canada can play for the gold medal next week, the American...

Evan Lysacek had just finished undergoing routine doping control Thursday night. He was standing barely 10 feet from the room where the three Olympic men's figure-skating medalists were doing the...

Seth Wescott has high hopes as one of the stars who will introduce to the world Thursday what some predict will become one of the most exciting sports in the...

Most thought doing four revolutions in the air had revolutionized the atmosphere in men's figure skating. The results of the 2002 Winter Olympics seemed indisputable proof. The three Salt Lake...

Jeremy Bloom wasn't about to let a slight bobble mar the end of his skiing career. "It was a great day," said Bloom, who finished sixth Wednesday in moguls. "I...

You can go your whole life and figure you'll never hear someone say, "The second period was all Latvia." Well, you thought wrong. The second period of the U.S.' opening...

Sometimes the most memorable moment in an Olympic journey isn't stepping onto a podium. It's reflecting on how you got there. Toby Dawson's story begins in a police station on...

The second new event of the Turin Olympics debuts with snowboard cross, where the Americans are expected to do very well. As a group, the snowboarders are fast becoming what...

Apolo Anton Ohno and his crash-helmeted colleagues accelerated speed limits and heart rates Wednesday night in another session of Olympic short-track speedskating. That there were no medals to be awarded...