Olympics

The century-old sliding center being completely rebuilt for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games is pushing the deadline really tight.

Workers in the town of Cortina, Italy, are busy building sliding facilities for the 2026 Winter Olympics and contending with conditions wrought by climate change.

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater, has died at 95.

Olympic figure skating great and authoritative commentator Dick Button has died at 95.

Jinna Han had a passion for figure skating that was evident to everyone at the Skating Club of Boston — including when she spoke to NBC10 Boston about her Olympic dreams in 2022.

These eight new events are being added to the Milano Cortina Games in 2026.

It’s been a demanding and difficult road back for the fast-healing Mikaela Shiffrin, who plans to make her World Cup return next week after being punctured at a Killington, Vermont, race.

The International Olympic Committee has promised to replace Gary Hall Jr.’s Olympic medals.

Video captured the dramatic moments when an olympic kite surfer saved a woman who was drowning. Bruno Lobo, who competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics, shared the video of the Jan. 10 incident. In the caption, the Brazilian athlete explains in Portuguese that he was testing out new camera equipment on the water when he came across the drowning woman....

Bruno Lobo, who competed in men’s kite sailing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, recently saved a drowning woman off the coast of São Luís — and shared a video to raise awareness on the dangers of the sea.

Quincy Wilson, 16, made history in Paris during the summer as the youngest male U.S. track Olympian in history. Unlike his teammates, he’s still years away from graduation.

Several athletes have noticed the patina on their Paris 2024 Olympic medals has begun to fade.

Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort. The country’s skiing federation says the incident took place at the Arosa resort in Switzerland. The 26-year-old Hediger competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in the women’s snowboard cross and the mixed team version of the same event. Hediger achieved her first two World Cup...

Vonn’s return comes after a five-year hiatus that was punctuated by a knee replacement in April.

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has placed an employee on administrative leave after The Associated Press reported that one of its coaches was accused of sexually abusing a young biathlete, causing her so much distress that she attempted suicide. USOPC officials sent an email to the U.S. Biathlon national team saying it wanted to commend the athletes who came...

Sexual abuse and harassment by coaches and others in positions of power on the U.S. Biathlon team were ignored or excused over decades by officials, athletes say.

Director Tim Fehlbaum takes viewers inside the hectic atmosphere of a control room in his most recent film, “September 5.” The movie follows a sports broadcasting crew covering the terrors attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Lindsey Vonn is coming out of retirement to rejoin the U.S. Ski Team, she announced Thursday, intending to race again at age 40 — and six years after her last Olympics. Vonn is a three-time Olympic medalist, including a downhill gold and super-G bronze at the 2010 Vancouver Games, and a bronze in the downhill at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games….

Former Olympic gold medalist and world champion Lindsey Vonn is returning to skiing, she announced Thursday.

Organizers of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games revealed the official branding and pictograms at an event in Milan on Wednesday.