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There are Canadians old enough to remember when Olympic hockey gold medals were something our teams just had to show up to collect, but anyone under the age of 50 [...]

What awaits the 2,700 athletes Feb. 12-17 who'll wind their way 105 miles north of Oslo, Norway, to Lillehammer to take part in the Winter Olympics? How about these tidbits […]

Josee Chouinard was in a hurry. 'Can we go now please?' she pleaded with the Norwegian bus driver. 'We have to get to the Viking Ship by 2 o'clock.' The [...]

There was a time when Canadian Winter Olympic medal hopes seemed to ride entirely on the slight shoulders of a single figure skater, or on the distant possibility of an [...]

Picture the beer-belly in the next seat. You know the kind, he enjoys yelling at the ref and ordering a few more brews. But on this night, his heart probably […]

Myth Number One: Norwegians are boring. Reality: Norwegians are daring and adventurous. They were the first Europeans to sail to North America, after all. To prove their mettle to the [...]

It was a memorable evening for Paul Kariya and his teammates on Canada's Olympic hockey team. The Canadians defeated a touring Russian national team 6-2 on Jan. 8 in Unity, [...]

The following guide highlights the events and the leading contenders at the 17th Winter Olympics, with schedules for CTV and CBS coverage. All listings are in eastern standard time. Broadcast [...]

The Winter Olympics that will be set in Lillehammer, Norway, are described, and the most promising athletes in each event are profiled. A schedule of events from Feb 12 to Feb 27, 1994, is given, and Olympics TV anchor Greg Gumbel is profiled.

The enchanting sport of women's ice skating takes a scandalous turn for the Olympics, because of the attack on US skater Nancy Kerrigan. Tonya Harding will compete under suspicions of ordering the attack on rival Kerrigan.

Kari has a ski jump in her backyard. Well, it is almost in her backyard. Kari lives in Lillehammer, Norway, where the 1994 Winter Olympics will be helds this February. [...]

It was the eighth of March, 1992, and the World Cup women's circuit had assembled for a Super G at Vail, Colorado. Just before they took the lift up to [...]

Aerials have finally achieved full-medal status, and the aerialists now grapple with the question of what it means to be Olympic athletes. For a kid in the '80s, telling your [...]

Traditionally, the United States had been unable to exerts its might at the Winter Games, losing the 'Cold' War to Eastern Bloc countries and other more mountainous nations. But as [...]

Myriam Bedard is the first North American to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics 15-km biathlon race and the first Canadian woman to win two golds in the Winter competitions. She follows a strict approach to training and counsels athletes to stay focused and mentally alert.

The Lillehammer Games exposed figure skating's many dirty little secrets From the rubble in the wake of Tropical Storm Tonya rises the moral of the story, the lesson to be […]

They got the torch down the mountain safely last week and the 17th Winter Olympics at last turned to the business of skiing, skating and awarding medals. Just in time. [...]

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who won the Olympic gold medal for ice dancing 10 years ago, will try to repeat their success at the 1994 Winter Olympics. They have skated professionally since 1984 and will adapt their routine to new Olympic guidelines. They have also retained an orchestrator to choreograph their dance steps.

Bonnie Blair is still a blur. Those who chase her shadow still dodge the snow she leaves behind. And by the time America's greatest female speedskater has had her last […]

From rebellious flower child perpetually at odds with her coaches to a heavy-medal poster child leading her U.S. Alpine Ski Team to the Lillehammer Olympics, the transformation of Picabo Street […]

Brian Boitano's nerves went haywire as soon as he stepped on the ice in Detroit. "I've never felt pressure like that," he said after amateur Scott Davis beat him for […]

Leo Burnett Carries The Torch For Reebok; Wells Rich Greene BDDP Represents IBM. NEW YORK--Regardless of how the Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding soap opera plays out, their bizarre tale has essentially […]

U.S. medal hopes are high for the downhillers. In the brave, weird world of downhillers, there's a four-letter word, beginning with F, that you never, never - not in a [...]

Long after the snow melted last spring, 210 residents of Trysil, Norway, clamped on a single pair of skis and trekked two miles across the city they boast is 'the [...]

LILLEHAMMER, Norway -- A speed-skating rink with a roof that looks like the hull of an upturned Viking ship and an ice hockey stadium blasted troll-style into a mountain of […]

On the side of a snowy road in a country where evidence of skiing dates back more than 4,000 years, I waited to take an extraordinary run. It was a [...]