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 scoring work, and how athletes and teams compete for medals at Milan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2007, Elana Meyers Taylor was already dreaming of one day being an Olympic Gold Medalist — as a member of the American softball team. Little did she know that a decade later, she would go on to ...

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 ...

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 ...