Violinist qualifies for ski team at Sochi Olympics

Manager of Vanessa-Mae says the classical-pop musician will be swapping her violin for skis to compete at the Winter Olympics

• Jan 20, 2014

Ted Ligety of U.S. wins 1st World Cup super-combined

Sochi-bound American already has Olympic and world championship gold medals in the combined event

• Jan 17, 2014

U.S. finalizes Olympic figure skating team, with a surprise

Ashley Wagner described her U.S. Championships performance as a “tearful little wimp out on the ice,” but the selection committee saw it differently

• Jan 12, 2014

"Devastated" Lindsey Vonn skipping Sochi Games

Hindered by knee injury, American star says "reality has sunk in that my knee is just too unstable to compete at this level"

• Jan 7, 2014

Sochi 2014: U.S. Olympic hopefuls

American athletes hoping to bring home a medal from the 2014 Winter Games

• Dec 23, 2013
• 29 photos

Sochi's gay culture

An increasingly conservative social agenda has impacted the Olympic host city, once considered one of Russia's more tolerant locales

• Dec 17, 2013
• 12 photos

U.S. men's curling team sweeps to Sochi Olympics

American team, skipped by John Shuster of Duluth, Minn., scores 8-5 playoff victory over Czech Republic to qualify for Sochi

• Dec 16, 2013

Steven Holcomb of U.S. wins 7th gold in World Cup season

Holcomb drives USA-1 to victory to cap off another huge weekend for American bobsledders and skeleton athletes on World Cup circuit

• Dec 16, 2013

Figure skating champ Lysacek out of Olympics: "I am crushed"

Reigning Olympic figure skating champion announces that a torn labrum in his left hip will keep him from competing in Sochi

• Dec 10, 2013

Soyuz carries Olympic torch to space

New ISS crew blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome with Olympic torch in tow

• Nov 7, 2013
• 23 photos