Olympics News

Canadian long-track speedskater Christine Nesbitt is picking up where she left off last season.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Claudia Pechstein's request to compete in speedskating World Cup races while she awaits a ruling on her appeal of a doping suspension.

Oprah Winfrey arrives at the AFI FEST 2009 in Hollywood, California. If one can't yet set a watch by the frequency of reports that Oprah Winfrey is poised to give up her top-rated syndicated talk show, it's almost possible to mark one's calendar by it.

Jamaican Glen Mills has resigned as head coach of the national athletics team, local media reported on Friday.

Olympic bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and others will have a chance to race in front of a home crowd when the Pan American Games come to Toronto in 2015.

Speedskater Denny Morrison, of Fort St. John, won sixth place in the World Cup Friday.

Brian Joubert of France finished first in the men's short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday, edging Jeremy Abbott of the United States.

Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The former two-time Olympian skier, who won the famed Wengen downhill as a 17-year-old, later became a movie maker and directed and filmed skiing scenes in four James Bond movies, as well as movies from several Winter Games.

EIJING: A Chinese collector of Olympic memorabilia will put some of his mementos on the auction block later this month, including a batch of 5,000 condoms given to competitors at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Rhode Island Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel has announced that she plans to attend the University of Florida next fall.

Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein must wait to discover if she has won her appeal against a two-year ban for blood doping.

The South African track chief who lied about his role in runner Caster Semenya's gender tests was suspended Thursday, the nation's top sports body said.

A very confident adolescent boy stopped skating around the Rockefeller Center rink to ask Gretchen Bleiler something.

A A Taylor Swift on - SNL' Taylor Swift chats about pulling double duty as host and musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" and which songs she will perform.

Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver - complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.

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Taylor Phinney had a simple plan. The budding American cycling star was going to spend four years working toward four minutes, which is about how long his final race would have taken at the 2012 London Games.

Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.

Chinese officials continue to struggle to find uses for the Bird's Nest Stadium, the iconic centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING'S Bird's Nest stadium has been transformed into a motor racing track, with some of the world's top drivers gearing up to compete in the 2009 Race of Champions here on Wednesday.