Comcast/NBC will remain the U.S. Olympic network in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. But for now, it's time to focus on 2012.
The next Winter Olympics in Russia will feature six new events, meaning that more women will be able to compete at Sochi in 2014.
Ken Block was lounging on the balcony of a pleasantly elegant hotel in northern France, enjoying a view of rolling hills and vineyards while resisting the urge to theorize how fast he could rip through them in a rally car. In a day he and Ford would unveil his entry for the World Rally Championship, officially making him the first American to compete full-time in at the highest level of the ultra-popular, ultra-difficult off-road racing circuit.
Snowboard queen Kelly Clark isn't resting on her laurels or her board. At the X Games in Aspen, Colo., over the weekend, the 27-year-old, two-time Olympic medalist became the first woman to land a frontside 1080, on her way to a gold medal in the superpipe.
Most Olympic athletes will use any natural advantage to win gold and Shaun White is no exception -- the only difference is that the champion snowboarder says it's a life-threatening heart condition as a child that has given him the edge.
updated: Wed Jan 19 2011 21:15:00
This month on Revealed, Snowboarding legend and Olympic gold medallist, Shaun White.
Lots of people may be cursing the early arrival of winter this year, but the blast of snow is translating into a blast for skiers and snowboarders.
After the World Championships in Rome last summer when he won a bronze medal in the 10-kilometer open water swim event, Fran Crippen talked glowingly about how the open-water event essentially revived his career.
Bernard Lagat added a notch to his resume on Friday night when he established a new national record for the 5,000 meters at the prestigious Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway. Lagat finished third in 12 minutes, 54.12 seconds, breaking the mark of 12:56.27 set by Dathan Ritzenhein last season. Ethiopia's Imane Merga won the race in 12:53.81, followed by his countryman, Tariku Bekele, in 12:53.97.
Sorry, Cinderella. Five-year-old Hannah Sitzman has forsaken all things princess to be a Winter Queen, she announces as she makes her way to the huge ice throne in a castle at the top of a ski mountain that took more than 75 tons of snow and two full weeks to build.
Reports from this week's Game Developers Conference make one thing clear: Games on mobile phones are not just a niche category anymore.
Talk about being 21st-century pioneers.
updated: Wed Feb 24 2010 20:07:00
Olympic medalist Nelson Carmichael has some tips on how to bump ski.
She's a vegetarian, charitable giver and plans to live in a yurt!
Winning gold could mean even more money for the Winter Olympics' superstar athletes. Of the top earners, experts say Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White and Bode Miller stand to gain the most.
Matthew Morrison, Robin Thicke, Kelly Ripa and more extol the virtues of curling, snowboarding and - sleeping?
The snowboarder voluntarily left the Winter Olympics Friday after risqué images surface
Bronze medalist Scott Lago apologized to U.S. officials and volunteered to leave the Olympic Games after racy pictures of him, his medal and a female fan showed up on the Internet, a spokesman for the U.S. ski and snowboard team confirmed Saturday.
U.S. snowboarder Louie Vito, a first-time Olympian, will be in checking in with SI.com's Cory McCartney throughout the Games to offer an inside view of the sights and sounds in Vancouver.
It's more than two hours before snowboard practice begins, two hours before Robert Beck will take his first picture, and he is trudging up the steep icy slope that is one lip of the halfpipe.
The snowboarder says he didn't win a medal because his runs may have lacked "amplitude"
"I've had the heights of the success and the ultimate heartbreak," says the snowboarder
updated: Thu Feb 18 2010 15:41:00
CNN's Kyung Lah on why Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo is creating buzz off the slopes.
Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo is the talk of Japan. Not for his athletic ability -- but for his appearance.
WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The night before the biggest day of his life, Scotty Lago tweeted out to his thousands of tweeps that he was going to bed and saying his prayers. Because that's what you do when you're headed down a massive halfpipe on the world's biggest stage, with not only your dreams, but the dreams of two of your best friends, riding on that board with you.
updated: Wed Feb 17 2010 16:20:00
Bode Miller and Seth Wescott collect medals for the U.S. CNN's Alex Thomas reports.
Plus, the snowboarder credits Dancing with the Stars with taking the pressure off in the halfpipe
An airplane's flight data recorder, or black box, saves input from many sensors so that pilots can reconstruct and analyze a trip after the fact, whether to find problems or certify that they completed a record-setting route.
CYPRESS MOUNTAIN, British Columbia -- How do you know you're having a bad day? When you are standing out of bounds impersonating the distressed man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream" while the three other women in your semifinal disappear down the course. Lindsey Jacobellis may not have been looking for redemption -- she always bristled at suggestions that she needed to apologize for her silver medal from the Turin Olympics. But she was certainly looking for a more uplifting outcome that the one she was dealt Tuesday afternoon. The 24-year-old from Stratton, Vermont had been riding well until she bobbled an early jump, lost control of her board found herself -- suddenly, anticlimactically -- off the course and out of the Olympics.
U.S. snowboarder Louie Vito, a first-time Olympian, will be in checking in with SI.com's Cory McCartney throughout the Games to offer an inside view of the sights and sounds in Vancouver.
Vonn and three other U.S. athletes pose for SI, while Jacobellis stays covered up
CYPRESS MOUNTAIN, British Columbia -- Furlongs ahead of the woman behind her, Lindsey Jacobellis took flight in the flat light of late afternoon, the finish line in sight. Moments later, she found herself lying the snow, wondering what had gone wrong.
Now moved out of the Olympic village, the snowboarder explains the link between the ballroom and the halfpipe
CYPRESS MOUNTAIN, British Columbia -- He wasn't Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont Stakes, but Mike Robertson was way, way out in front. Through the sixth of seven turns on this distressed, slush-plagued serpentine men's snowboard cross, the Canadian rider was probably 20 yards ahead of aging American Seth Wescott, who'd won gold in this event four years ago, and would have probably been very pleased just to get back on the podium in this, his 34th year on the planet.
updated: Mon Feb 15 2010 20:23:00
A Georgian luger was killed during Olympic practice. CNN's Mark McKay reports.
Changes to the Winter Olympics have raised questions about safety, but experts say the games' transformations mark a natural evolution rather than an attempt to make competitions more dangerous and exciting.
When the men's snowboard cross final took place Monday afternoon, there were 4,000 fewer fans than officials had planned.
The snowboarder and Dancing With the Stars competitor writes that a luger's death is a wakeup call
It's fitting that Valentine's Day, a day when people lead with their hearts, fell during the Vancouver Games. Olympians bring the same dedication to training and competing as they do to supporting their communities and the causes that inspire them. Here are some examples.
From the weather (too warm!) to the romance (skaters in love!), here's a PEOPLE guide to the Games
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- So much for the archetype of the quiet and reserved Canadian. On the eve of the Vancouver Games, which will see 5,500 athletes from 82 countries compete for 258 medals, this city is overflowing with boosterism, positivism and optimism. Its rainy streets are filled with flapping Maple Leafs as well as a flapping Canadian media crowing about Team Canada's chances for medal success.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The International Olympic Committee's need to push the envelope is sewn into its motto Citius, Altius, Fortius - or swifter, higher, stronger - as if to be swift enough, fast enough or strong enough were a weakness or, at the least, a lame marketing idea. So over the past decade, in an effort to remain edgy, relevant and riveting, the IOC has ratcheted up the drama by going to the extreme, enlisting the hotdog hounds of freestyle skiing and seducing daredevil snowboarders to the Games.
The starts are crucial in the regulated mayhem of ski cross, the newest Olympic sport. Sometimes the whole race is right there at the outset. A few seconds, the top of the world. You can feel the tension even during a practice run like the one early last December when Casey Puckett and Daron Rahlves were settling into the stalls of a steel gate at the top of a training course at the Telluride Ski Resort. The Olympic qualifying races were just three weeks away and the Vancouver games themselves were looming in less than two months. The snow that had been falling over southwest Colorado for most of the day was erasing the blue dye lines meant to help the racers gauge the contours of the course, which featured a tricky array of banked turns, rollers, jumps and the deep U-shaped trenches right below the gate known as wu-tangs.
Ever wonder what inspired the contests you watch at the Winter Olympics? Some sports got their starts on icy ponds, others were the byproducts of military activity.
Even as Shaun White confirmed his position as red-topped king of the pipe with a superpipe run that included a mind-bending Double McTwist 1260, last week's X Games in Aspen, Colo., may have set the pre-Olympic landscape for some of the country's top snowboarders.
Kevin Pearce One of the country's top snowboarders, who was considered a favorite to make the U.S. Olympic team, was in critical but stable condition Sunday after an accident while training last week at Park City, Utah.
Even though he has never won a World Cup race, biathlete Tim Burke achieved a major breakthrough when he took the lead in the points standings and earned the right to wear the yellow jersey when the season resumes. The honor is similar to the one bestowed on the leader of the Tour de France as the cyclists progress through the stages of the race. No man from the U.S. Biathlon Team has ever worn the leader's jersey, but Burke's sixth-place finish in a 12.5-kilometer pursuit race in Pokljuka, Slovenia, on Sunday left it on shoulders. "I think every biathlete has thought about [wearing the yellow]," Burke, 27, said after the race. "It really hasn't hit me yet."
I am standing near the peak of a craggy, white-capped mountain in Alaska. With me are three world-class adventure-sports athletes.
Skiers and snowboarders can cut the risk of brain injury dramatically by wearing helmets on the slopes, some experts say.
The title on Chris Doyle's business card reads "mad scientist," but he's not crazy, he's just crazy about snowboarding.
The half pipe tucked in a corner of the office is the first clue that Skullcandy is not your average company.
Forget the beach. Bridget Kerr, 10, would rather play in the snow.
More people are hurt snowboarding than any other outdoor activity, accounting for a quarter of emergency room visits, according to the first national study to estimate recreational injuries
More people are hurt snowboarding than any other outdoor activity, accounting for a quarter of emergency room visits, according to the first national study to estimate recreational injuries
Most video games make you think fast and twitch even faster. Wii Fit encourages you to slow down -- and stick to your diet
George Wright figured a construction project was underway when he noticed wood shavings inside a room his company used for customer demonstrations.
PARK CITY, Utah -- Jamal Anderson knows a thing or two about upsets in the NFL Playoffs. Nearly a decade ago, he led the Falcons over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship game and couldn't help but think back to that game as he watched the Giants upset the Packers on Sunday during a party at Park City's Town Lift center.
updated: Tue Dec 04 2007 14:05:00
A huge snowstorm brought out the winter coats and CNN I-Reporters. CNN's Veronica de la Cruz reports.
Summer jobs and the beach are on students' minds now, but two-a-day football practices and school supplies shopping will become the focus soon enough. Here's a list of boys' athletes to watch in the next year:
As his plane smacked down belly-first into Bowline Pond and began to sink, Ilan Reich was oddly calm. Then 50, he didn't see flashes of glowing light or fast-forward through the highs and lows of h...
IN 1977, AT AGE 23, Jake Burton left a job at an investment firm run by Victor Niederhoffer for a wood shop near Stratton, Vt. His goal: transform the Snurfer, a precursor to the modern snowboard, ...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (Ticker) -- A snowboarding accident led to more than a separated shoulder for Vladimir Radmanovic. It hurt in the wallet as well.
PARK CITY, Utah -- Chris Klug raced down these mountains nearly five years earlier to win a medal during the 2002 Winter Olympics. On this day, however, he will have to settle for backpedaling and running down the same slopes while holding my hands. At least until I figure out what I'm doing with the snowboard that's attached to my feet.
SI.com's Arash Markazi traveled to Park City, Utah to chronicle the slate of never-ending parties and events surrounding the Sundance Film Festival. Here's his diary of the scene.
After a recent Apple campaign portrayed PC users as dweebs, Hewlett-Packard fought back with a series of ads in which Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, and snowboarder Shaun White lent the company’s PCs so...
American Lindsey Jacobellis quite literally snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the unpredictable and wild sport of snowboardcross.
Michelle Kwan is gone. Bode Miller failed to win even a bronze in his first event. What's a U.S. advertiser at the Winter Olympics to do?
Snowboarding was born only 40 years ago, combining elements of surfing and skateboarding in an attempt to create a new and exciting winter sports activity.
Vermont Originals ski hat $33 When Tad and Jane Washburn left the advertising business to buy Vermont Originals in 2004, they also bought into a 33-year-old tradition. The Morrisville, Vt., company...
Eric Gores, who costars in "The Kid & I," was born with cerebral palsy and appears to be a cheerful, well-adjusted young man. Ergo he is celebrated -- ceaselessly -- as an inspiration to the unafflicted.
Consider it the most fun you can have on a mountain without fear of breaking a leg: "SSX on Tour" is the latest in the popular extreme sports series that lets virtual snowboarders and skiers race down the slopes and perform over-the-top midair stunts.
Between selling Salomon, the ski-equipment maker, launching a line of women's gear designed by Stella McCartney, and blanketing China with Adidas shops, it's been a busy year for globetrotting Adid...
(CNN) -- The warmth of the spring sun on the winter's last snow usually signals the end of the ski season. But for some skiers in Europe and parts of Asia, it means it's time to hit the indoor runs at the local snow dome.
I'm about to launch myself down the face of a 60-foot sand dune, my stockinged feet strapped to a 41-inch-long wooden board. All I can think about is friction and the heat it causes, and then I won...
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For centuries, Kashmir's legendary beauty has been attracting tourists from around the world, with many heading to Gulmarg, the heartland of winter sports in India.
The snowboarder who was injured while performing a stunt for the "Late Show with David Letterman" was released from the hospital Friday -- which Letterman called a "happy ending" to an otherwise harrowing ordeal.
A professional snowboarder was injured Thursday after falling 25 feet while performing a stunt outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan where the "Late Show with David Letterman" is taped.
Known for its epic spring skiing, big snows, milder temperatures and lots of open terrain, Whistler Blackcomb throws a 10-day party making April a don't-miss at the British Columbia ski resort.
The coolest things these days on America's ski slopes probably aren't the skiers, or even the snow-covered trails.
The worst part of snowboarding--other than the falls--is hobbling down a ski-lift line with one leg tethered at a right angle to a five-foot board. "It hurt my knee so bad, I didn't want to snowboa...
--Nordic Mountain MOUNT MORRIS, WIS. OWNER Bill Creamer FOUNDED 1975 Price Tag $890,000
Chris Crowley, arms folded over his crisp yellow tie, is staring at a very loud, very wet machine. The contraption--a $600,000 Crown Simplimatic soda canner he bought for $225,000--is working flawl...
Nestled in the upper reaches of Little Cottonwood Canyon, 30 miles southeast of downtown Salt Lake City, Alta ski resort is sacred ground among those who worship the fluffy stuff. The snow is not only plentiful -- 500 inches of it a year -- it's so soft and light that carving turns takes little effort and falling is almost a pleasure.
Jake Burton Carpenter has one of the best jobs in America. Last year he spent 113 days riding his snowboard and still had time to run his company. Luckily for Carpenter, his passion is his business...
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Extreme sports are all about merging activities, the more simultaneously the better. Enter Matt Hanson, a 33-year-old skier, snowboarder, and mountain biker in Playa del Rey, Calif., who's doing hi...
For them, office hours are based on weather conditions. Seed-round funding comes from the money they've earned promoting other companies. More often than not, they conduct business not from behind ...
Robert Earl Wells IV likes to call himself the Martha Stewart of youth culture. God knows why. Perhaps it's because the 31-year-old marketing expert has hosted cooking segments with skateboarders a...
Sometimes a great notion is only that--an idea. But truly great ideas are more. Just ask anyone who has implemented one successfully. We did, and we discovered that making a real business out of an...
Each year a slew of new high-tech ski equipment hits the market--and the cheapest route to ownership is now through the mail. This season, for instance, super side-cut skis have revolutionized the ...
IF YOU THINK OF SNOWBOARDING AS just for the baggy-pants-and-backwardbaseball-cap set, you haven't been on the slopes lately. In a survey of snowboarders taken last winter, some 20% were over age 2...
Unlike its cousin the skateboard, the snowboard is turning respectable. Shredding, as enthusiasts call their sport, resembles surfing on snow and until recently was banned by many ski resorts, main...
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