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Despite the hyperbole of grand challenges and epic confrontations, the Olympics are really quite fleeting events. The Atlanta Games lie just 18 months distant, and nothing much of them remains [...]

A brilliant performance by 15-year-old Tara Lipinski made her the youngest Olympic skating champion, beating favorite Michelle Kwan and setting up a rivalry for the millennium. When Michelle Kwan final [...]

The sun shone and the stars aligned for Picabo Street's triumphant comeback from injury, the highlight of the week for Team U.S.A. How strong was her aura? She won by [...]

With a great gold-medal skate, a rosy-cheeked Russian esthete proved stronger than the macho Elvis Stojko When Russia's Aleksei Urmanov upset Elvis Stojko for the Olympic figure-skating gold back in [...]

It wasn't entirely clear to anyone, except perhaps the judges, why Canada's Elvis Stojko wasn't awarded the Olympic gold medal in Lillehammer back in 1994. Maybe it was his unusually [...]

There were moments when it looked like the herminator might be toast. Fifty seconds into the first run of the giant slalom, Hermann Maier's left ski swung up higher than [...]

Dutch speed skater Marianne Timmer had bombed out in the big international races this season, so she wasn't on anybody's medal radar before the Olympics -- even her own. 'Maybe, [...]

When the sun finally broke through the clouds last week, it shone on Californian moguls-skier Jonny Moseley. Elevating into his signature 'helicopter mute grab,' a high-risk 360-degree spin with his [...]

Performing for their home crowd, the Japanese team quickly grabbed three gold medals, the most they've ever won in the Winter Games. After breaking the Olympic record to win the [...]

Norwegian cross-country skier Bjorn Daehlie won his sixth gold medal -- a record for men in the Winter Games -- when he crossed the finish line in the 10-kilometer race. [...]

Never has the olympics embraced a sport quite so quickly as snowboarding. The International Olympic Committee hoped the infant sport would invigorate its lineup of spectator-unfriendly sports like speed skating [...]

They proved women don't have to wear skirts to thrill on the ice. When women's hockey made its Olympic debut last week, the U.S. team beat all five of its [...]

A decade ago in Calgary Cammi Granato cheered from the stands as her brother Tony hit the ice for the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Inspired by the flag-waving and patriotic [...]

When Mars Blackmon asked Michael Jordan 'Is It The Shoes?' He Had the right question but the wrong sport. Long-track speed skaters are certain to set records at Nagano, thanks [...]

The quad, the quad, the quad, the quad. That's all anyone seems to be talking about on the eve of the men's Olympic figure-skating competition. It's as if the quadruple [...]

TALK ABOUT BAD OMENS. That's what many in Japan were doing last week when the 'eternal' Olympic flame refused to stay lit. The three ceremonial torches crisscrossing the country flickered [...]