The latest addition to the list of amenities available to athletes at the bobsled and skeleton world championships is a room inside a lodge just down the hill from the finish line.

Slovakia has won its first Olympic hockey medal in the nation’s history.

Sui Wenjing and Han Chan of China shattered their own world record for a short program at the Beijing Games on Friday night, giving them the narrowest of leads over Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov heading into the free skate to decide the Olympic champion.

Officially, the Beijing Olympics are taking place inside what organizers are calling “the enclosed compound activity area.”.

Kaillie Humphries is now, officially, an American.