Olympic Winter Games News Archives

The smile from a gold medal win is a beautiful thing. Hair matted by a day sweating underneath a toque, maybe not.

Russia's 10 wealthiest tycoons are donating millions for bonuses for Russian medalists at the Beijing Games.

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez fears he could be without Javier Mascherano and Lucas for the start of the Premier League season due to their possible participation in this summer's Olympic Games.

Durban authorities have poured cold water on reports that the city, best known for its sub-tropical beaches, is to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The man who was the coach for Canadian speedskater Cindy Klassen when she won five medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics has resigned from the Canadian team.

Speed skating star Cindy Klassen is upset and mystified by the Speed Skating Canada manoeuvres that led to the resignation of the coach who guided her to five medals at the 2006 Turin Olympics.

Surrey will build the volunteer centre for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The announcement was made Monday afternoon by Mayor Dianne Watts and John Furlong, Chief Executive Officer for the Vancouver Organizing ...

A group of women ski jumpers suing the Vancouver organizing committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics said Thursday if they are denied the right to participate in the Games, so too should the men competing.

As the first female honorary starter in Indianapolis 500 history, Yamaguchi will send the elite 33-car starting field into the quest for the checkered flag and racing immortality.

Police in Southern California issued an arrest warrant on Friday for a man charged with giving Russian Olympic ice skating gold medalist Pasha Oksana Grishuk a date rape drug.

An international group of women ski jumpers say years of discrimination against their sport must come to an end by the 2010 Winter Games, not just for them but for the next generation of jumpers.

VANOC chairman Jack Poole, left, said Olympics tickets go on sale on Oct. 3. Tickets for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games will go on sale earlier than expected.

Patrice Lauzon and Marie-France Dubreuil felt a little bit lighter Tuesday. After a celebrated 13-year career, the Canadian ice dancers retired from competitive figure skating, moving on from a path they felt ...

Running scared in borrowed track shoes, Mirsada Buric strides through the debris-strewn streets of this former Olympic city, risking sniper fire to keep alive her dream of competing in the Summer Games.

“We have a great team with great players and we believed in each other”

Russia's dethroning of Canada to become hockey World Champions has not only revived a classic rivalry but helped set the stage for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. via Raw Story

“It was great to end my career with the national team with a win - although it was only a bronze medal. We came here to win gold.”

Teemu Selanne announced he has played his last game for Finland, will decide on NHL future by July 1 QUEBEC - In a surprise announcement following Finland's bronze medal victory at the world hockey ... via The Globe and Mail

“I know for me, it would be extremely difficult to be able to go compete in a country that was hosting the games, but don't exemplify what the games are being held for”

Mr. Stojko, who won silver medals at the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics, says he would consider boycotting the Games if he were still a competing athlete. via The Globe and Mail

“Our fundraising for the last year has continued to be robust”

CHICAGO : Chicago Olympic organizers are on track to spend about $58 million trying to lure the 2016 Summer Games to the Midwest. via International Herald Tribune

“What's in the product is not always what's on the label”

An Austrian skier who missed the 2006 Olympics after testing positive for a steroid settled a lawsuit against a company he claims sold him a tainted product, his attorney said Thursday. via Hartford Courant

On August 2, 2007, our policing community suffered the tragic loss of a long-standing and dedicated member. via Canada NewsWire

“We in the IOC have done well without TV for 60 years and will do so certainly for the next 60 years too”

FROM its almost empty coffers in the late 1970s to the multibillion-dollar revenues from the Beijing 2008 Games, the International Olympic Committee has managed a remarkable commercial transformation of its ... via Business Day

“It's unacceptable to us to have companies that sign agreements saying they will not sell tickets to ticket brokers to go ahead and do that”

- A plan to crack down on people attempting to scalp tickets to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver is being applauded by Canada's Olympic committee and Games sponsors.

Vancouver's Olympic organizers promised hyper-vigilance on the resale of tickets when pricing was announced last fall. But with this month's deadline for sponsors and Olympic committees to put in their requests for tickets, they're stepping up counter-scalping measures.

One national Olympic committee has already been targeted for promising gold medal hockey tickets to a ticket broker, despite not yet having any tickets in hand. Read more

“The event has taken on much more of a difficult situation because of the weapons of mass destruction threat”

- There's no way the private security industry can meet the demands from either Olympic organizers or the RCMP for help during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, industry professionals say.

Both Vancouver's Olympic Organizing committee and the Integrated Security Unit in charge of policing the Games are seeking private security firms, as well as existing institutions that want to beef up their own security.

It means the already-stressed industry simply can't keep up.

"There are very competent people who are part of the (Olympic) planning process," said Leo Knight, senior vice-president of Paladin Security, a Vancouver-based private security firm. Read more

“Although I was able to successfully fight back from many setbacks - including my most recent knee injury - in the end there have simply been too many injuries for me to justify continuing with the sport”

After ten years on the U.S. Ski Team and one appearance at the Olympics, injuries have finally caught up with Bellevue, Wash, native Libby Ludlow, who announced her retirement Sunday. via NWCN.com

“We feel that having, not only the facilities upgraded, but having access to practices and such would really be something special for our kids”

Members of the Britannia Centre voice their concerns at a public meeting Monday night. via CBC

“I do not have the necessary qualifications or the qualities”

Olympic cross-country ski champion Vegard Ulvang said on Tuesday he will not head a 2018 Winter Olympics bid committee for the Norwegian city of Tromso, broadcaster NRK reported. via Bangkok Post

“We unfortunately have to admit that at this point, in a city of half a million people, there is no proper sewage system, electricity supply, or infrastructure.”

Could Russia be divested of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which have been awarded to its southern city of Sochi? For several reasons, it's becoming a distinct possibility. via Free Republic

“If we get our best team we have a chance to compete with the best. This year, unfortunately, we had no luck with the NHL players.

"So we're looking forward to the quarter-finals and we'll go from there.”

- No general manager at the IIHF World Hockey Championship has had as much bad luck as Sweden's Mats Naslund.

The former Montreal Canadiens star watched in disbelief as one-by-one, Sweden's star players began to fall by the wayside leading up to the tournament.

First, it was Mats Sundin's groin. Then it was Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson's knee. When it was all said and done, more than 20 players declined an invitation to the tournament.

Naslund, one of the architects of the 2006 gold medal-winning Swedish entry at the Winter Olympics, has had to make due, combining Swedish league veterans with a number of fringe NHLers and Calder Trophy-candidate Nicklas Backstrom. Read more

“These factors, and the excellent facilities in Spokane, will provide an extraordinarily positive atmosphere for our athletes. The enthusiasm we experienced in 2007 certainly proved that Spokane can host a truly outstanding event.”

Spokane landed a big one Monday - the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Nationals, an event that also doubles as the Olympic trials for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games. via The Seattle Times

“It [DID] is just a coping mechanism people use to overcome trauma.”

Herschel Walker, middle, reveals in his new book that he suffers from DID or dissociative identity disorder and that he has actually played Russian roulette. via CBC News

“We've used things like '8' throughout the collection”

Models and Olympic athletes model Canadian Olympic replica wear, which will be worn by Canada's Olympic athletes at the Beijing games, during a fashion show in Toronto, Wednesday, April 30, 2008. via CTV.ca

“I felt both excited and nervous to be the first torchbearer in the Chinese mainland”

The 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay kicked off here Sunday morning, the first leg in Chinese mainland. via CCTV

The Globe and Mail has been added to the growing list of official suppliers of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. via CBC News

“We do not agree with the decision to produce Olympic clothing offshore and would have preferred that the clothing was made in Canada.”

Like the 2008 Olympic Games, most of the Canadian Olympic team's uniforms are made in China - and that has some MPs crying foul. via CBC News

Media Advisory - Vancouver 2010 partnership with The Globe and Mail VANCOUVER, May 2 /CNW/ - The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and The Globe and Mail will hold ... via Canada NewsWire

- Donald Knight, Marijane Stong, Jim Proudfoot and George Gross are going to the Skate Canada Hall of Fame.

Knight will be inducted into the athlete category, Stong into the professional category as a coach while Proudfoot and Gross will be inducted into the builder category as sport journalists.

Knight, of Dundas, Ont., won the bronze medal at the 1965 World Championships in addition to his bronze medal at the 1965 North American Championships and the gold medal at the 1967 North American Championships. Read more