Are the Winter Olympics plagued with scandals? Is ice wet? (And, yes, wet ice is one of the scandals.)

There are always controversies at the Olympics, which continue through Feb. 22 and which happen so infrequently that the world’s eyes are bound to be laser-focused on them. Below, we break down what’s causing the most uproar in Milano ...Read more

Even as a tiny child in her car seat, Isabeau Levito talked about how much she wanted to go to the Olympics.

At 3, she had watched the 2010 Winter Games on TV and was charmed by the figure skating, mimicking Coatesville, Pa., native Johnny Weir’s movements on the screen. Her mother, Chiara Garberi, thought they’d try skating and brought her...Read more

MILAN — After a one-hour on-ice training session and on the way to yet another interview, Isabeau Levito has one big problem on her mind.

One of the plants in the U.S. figure skater's room has started growing mold. She needs to figure out how to wrangle it.

"That's our task of the day," Levito said Monday.

Nevermind that the biggest ...Read more

MILAN —Amber Glenn thought her chance for the Olympics was already gone. She was 9.

"I wasn't always considered one of the top," Glenn said, "so I never thought that I'd be skating past, like, 20 years old or something because you don't usually see that."

The 26-year-old, who is making her Olympic debut, jokes that she's "a dinosaur" in ...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor was Team USA's most successful female bobsledder — except she had never won an Olympic gold medal.

That ended Monday as Meyers Taylor took the top prize, claiming gold in the women's monobob at the Cortina Sliding Centre.

In winning her sixth Olympic medal, she tied speedskater Bonnie Blair ...Read more

MILAN — The U.S. advanced to the final of the women's hockey tournament at the Milan-Cortina Olympics with a 5-0 rout of Sweden on Monday and will meet the winner of the second semifinal between Canada and Switzerland in Thursday's gold-medal game.

The goals came from Cayla Barnes, Taylor Heise, Kendall Coyne, Hayley Scamurra and Abbey ...Read more

MILAN — Leaders of the International Olympic Committee appear ready to lift suspensions of Russia and Belarus, clearing the way for athletes from those countries to return to major international competitions perhaps as early as the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

But those plans may have hit a snag last week with the international show of support ...Read more

MILAN — When American pairs skater Danny O’Shea was 10 years old, he sat down and made a list of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games.

In 2010, he would be 18. That would be his Olympics, he decided.

As easy as that, right?

O’Shea has survived two retirements, five partner changes, two coaching changes, a broken foot, multiple surgeries, ...Read more

MILAN — With NHL stars back in the Winter Olympics for the first time in 12 years, organizers of the Milan-Cortina hockey tournament have seemingly done everything they can to make the players feel at home.

A horn blast marks goals and the end of each period, an NHL tradition since the 1970s; foreboding organ music plays whenever a player is...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — What's behind her has been well documented — the Olympic disappointments, the crash that nearly ended her career — but it was what unfurled in front of her Sunday that transfixed Mikaela Shiffrin.

She saw it while standing in the start gate at Tofane Alpine Ski Centre, the Olympic giant-slalom course in the ...Read more

Four years ago, I stood among reporters in the mountains of Zhangjiakou, China, interviewing an exhausted Jessie Diggins, who had just skied the anchor leg of the 4x5km relay. It was the fourth of six races she was scheduled to participate in at the 2022 Olympics.

Diggins was asked about the workload, if she had two more races in her.

“I’m...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — There's much more to Olympic ski racing than what goes on between the gates. A lot of it has to do with what's going on inside the helmet, and Mikaela Shiffrin hinted at that after a disappointing finish this week in the slalom portion of the women's combined.

"I didn't quite find a comfort level that allows me to ...Read more

MILAN — His competitors flashed by with still more than half a lap to go. Jordan Stolz, sitting opposite of the finish line staring at a large video board, looked at his coach and nodded. The U.S. flag quietly came out of a backpack for his impending victory lap.

The 21-year-old speedskating star won his second Olympic medal of the Milan-...Read more

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — Axel Brown, the pilot of Trinidad and Tobago's bobsled team, came to the Milan-Cortina Winter Games with a simple goal.

"Just don't come last," he said. "We know that there is a 0% chance of us contending for medals. It doesn't matter if we have the absolute best day we've ever had.

"That's just the reality of it....Read more

History is once again unfolding at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games as Team USA members break records and score dominant triumphs.

But as the Games move into their second week, a different and more provocative history is starting to repeat itself, casting a politically charged shadow over the event.

Champion skier Mikaela Shiffrin, snowboarder ...Read more

MILAN — When she skated, Tara Lipinski was always nervous. But it was different before the free skate of the 1998 Olympics. The teenager cried that morning. She called her parents after the six-minute warmup and said she couldn't do it. Her legs were physically shaking in her beginning pose. She didn't know what to do.

"When you go to the ...Read more

MILAN — He popped the quad axel. He stumbled across the ice. He tried to hide the pained expression.

Ilia Malinin fell apart in the men’s free skate, tumbling from near lock to win the gold medal to eighth place after a disastrous performance Friday. After his music ended, Malinin covered his anguished face. He put his hands on his knees, ...Read more

San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini is having a blast so far at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina.

It’d be impossible for him not to.

Playing alongside the NHL’s two leading scorers, Celebrini had a goal and an assist Friday as Canada powered its way to a 5-1 win over Switzerland and Sharks forward Philipp Kurashev at Milano ...Read more

Maxim Naumov realized the dream that he and his parents had simply by stepping onto the ice at the Olympics skating rink this week in Italy.

The results were secondary. Still, Naumov, 24, was in 14th place after a solid performance Tuesday, when he posted a score of 85.65 in the short program and qualified for the long program.

Friday was the ...Read more

MILAN — He popped the quad axel. He stumbled across the ice. He tried to hide the pained expression.

Ilia Malinin fell apart in the men’s free skate, tumbling from near lock to win the gold medal to eighth place after a disastrous performance Friday. After his music ended, Malinin covered his anguished face. It was the first time since ...Read more