I spent New Year’s Eve in St. Moritz — which is weird for me. I don’t like cold weather, I’m not an especially gifted skier (read: awkward-as-heck skier), and starting the new year off in a town full ...

Learn the basics of Olympic bobsled—explore all events (2-man, 4-man, 2-woman, monobob), key rules of racing, how timing and ...

Althea Gibson. Wilma Rudolph. Venus and Serena Williams. Dawn Staley. Simone Biles. Clarissa Shields. These women overcame racial and gender barriers and surpassed the competition in their respective ...

Team USA’s strong Monday at the Winter Olympics in Beijing was capped off by Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor taking gold and silver in the women’s monobob. The American duo will return to ...

Lolo Jones hasn’t returned to China since 2008, since one bad step in what was then the biggest race of her life cost her an Olympic gold medal. She’s never wanted to go back. Her stance might change ...

Larry Wade, when he was an assistant track coach at UNLV, saw Kaysha Love’s combination of size, strength and speed and thought those traits might transfer to bobsledding. He mentioned that sport to ...

Two-sport Olympian Lolo Jones won the first world championship bobsledding competition of her career Saturday alongside Canadian bobsledding legend Kaillie Humphries. The two competed under Team USA ...

Jace Johnson played basketball in college where every player dreams of starring in March Madness. But after playing basketball and earning his degree at Midwestern State University, Johnson’s biggest ...

Olympian Curt Tomasevicz waves to Nebraska fans as the Nebraska Huskers take on the Northwestern Wildcats at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 1. By Diane Wetzel / World-Herald News ...

A Britisher invented the bobsled. In 1890, Wilson Smith nailed two toboggans together and invited three friends along for a hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, decided the ...