Ice skaters Alysa Liu and Ilia Malinin, snowboarder Chloe Kim, skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn, and oodles of other athletes will c...

The Winter Olympics officially get underway on Friday 6 January with the Opening Ceremony

The Swedish skier's inclusion follows the IOC's 2021 "Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identit...

North Korea last took part in a Winter Olympics in the South Korean city of PyeongChang

On the eve of the 2026 Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony, the Italian government approved a new security measure to allow law enforcement to...

Dutch speed-skating star Jutta Leerdam was blasted as "arrogant" and a "diva" for flying to the Olympics on a private jet instead of making...

In winter sports where a fraction of a second can mean the difference between winning and losing, staying a technological step ahead of the...

Three reigning world champions will hit the ice for Team USA today.

Event evolutionWhen women competed at the first Winter Games in 1924, they made up 4.3% of competitors, this year they are at 47%.Women ac...

By Nicole Miller on SwimSwam2026 Winter Olympic GamesFebruary 4 – February 22, 2026Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, ItalyEvent WebsiteSche...

The official kickoff for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Games is set for Friday, with several highly anticipated events planned throughout t...

Figure skating makes its highly anticipated debut at the 2026 Winter Olympics starting early Friday, and there will be no shortage of excite...

Mark HertsgaardGlobal warming means the future of Winter Games “is literally melting away.” The International Olympics Committee Is...

To paraphrase Al Pacino from the movie “Any Given Sunday,” life is just a game of inches and so is ski jumping. 

With a snowblower, no fear and some ingenuity, a young Birk and Svea Irving were determined to catch air and stomp tricks in the small backy...