CNN's Paula Hancocks reports from Pyeongchang, South Korea, just after it was picked to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
No one cares that the water is cold. The kids splash at the lake's edge, play on the small sand beach as older, daring ones splash in the water and peddle kayaks, rowboats and paddleboats. Our pup eyes them all curiously.
Ah, Olympic tradition. Tears. Cheers. And the International Olympic Committee looking foolish.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- BLACK SUNDAY, ON ICE
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Terrible day for the United States Olympic team yesterday: It won only four medals.
It's a familiar story -- we look at the athletes' bodies and they seem unusual somehow. We think about what lengths they might have gone to in order to achieve such an abnormal build. Whatever it is they did, we wonder: Is it natural? Is it healthy?
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's David Epstein's look ahead to Nordic combined.
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's Brian Cazeneuve's look ahead to ski jumping.
Jessica Jerome is exhausted. The Park City, Utah, resident wakes up early to teach ski lessons to youngsters. She's working 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. shifts at events at the Sundance Film Festival to earn some cash
Anders Jacobsen of Norway won the third leg of the Four Hills ski jumping tournament at Innsbruck on Thursday to snatch the overall lead from Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer, who finished a disappointing 11th at home.
Finland's Arttu Lappi won the World Cup ski jumping opener in Ruka on Friday but the event was reduced to one jump because of strong winds and heavy snow.
Austria won the Olympic ski jumping team event for the first time on Monday, giving teenager Thomas Morgenstern his second gold of the Torino Games.
Germany's Georg Hettich gave his country its second gold medal on Saturday by winning the Nordic combined individual event ahead of Austria's Felix Gottwald.
Don't know a triple lutz from a death spiral? Can't tell the difference between downhill skiing and Nordic combined (and doesn't all skiing go downhill anyway)?
Ski Jumpingupdated: Tue Jan 31 2006 07:01:00
Ski jumping is one of the rare skiing disciplines that did not evolve from military, transportation or communication origins. The sport dates back to 1860, when Sondre Norheim, who is still lauded in Norway as the "father of skiing", jumped 30 meters from a rock without ski poles.
The roots of Nordic combined skiing stretch back thousands of years, but competitions are said to have been started by the Norwegian Army in 1767. The first civilian event took place some 75 years later.
Jakub Janda of the Czech Republic and Finland's Janne Ahonen finished on level points overall to share the Four Hills ski jump trophy on Friday.
World Cup leader Jakub Janda of the Czech Republic narrowly beat Finland's Janne Ahonen in the second stage of the prestigious Four Hills tournament at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Sunday, his extra style points giving him victory.
Defending champion Janne Ahonen of Finland ended a 10-month drought on Thursday when he soared to victory in the ski-jumping Four Hills Tour opener.
Finland's Janne Ahonen soared to a hill record on Sunday and won a World Cup ski jumping event for the 11th time in 13 tries this season, in Willingen, Germany.
Sven Hannawald, the only ski jumper ever to win the four legs of the Four Hills tournament, will miss the 2004-2005 season, former German national coach Wolfgang Steiert has said.
IT'S EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE morning, an hour when most high school kids are just beginning to think about first-period class. Steve Reynolds is already in his first ''class'' of the day: He's skiing ...
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