Articles in the ‘Winter Olympic Sports’ Category

After years of lobbying, several winter-sports athletic groups have moved one step closer to having their events officially included in the next Winter Olympics, set to take place in 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
The International Olympic Committee has announced that their final decision on the seven proposed new events will be delayed until 2011, but [...]

Within all the breathless coverage of the Winter Olympics, there’s one glaring issue that always seems to get lost—namely, the fact that the games are so skewed toward cold-weather countries, particularly the northern ones. A quick glance at the list of historic host countries reveals the astonishing [...]

When the Olympic games were reestablished in the 19th century, they weren’t exactly the same as the Ancient Greek competitions from which the modern event gets its name, but they were based on the same idea—the best athletes from around the world coming together in the spirit of [...]