Defending champion Joannie Rochette fell during her short routine at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships on Friday and trails Cynthia Phaneuf heading into the long program. Phaneuf scored 66.30 points to win the short program ahead of Rochette, who received 64.15 points after her spill. “Stuff like that happens and you have to deal with [...]

Kids sat on their parents’ shoulders and craned their necks as torchbearer Gary Gibson ran with the Olympic flame to the Edgeworth Centre in Camrose Friday afternoon and lit the cauldron onstage. Thousands of people came out to see country musician Aaron Pritchett, the Augustana Men’s Choir and Blue Thistle perform at a lunchtime celebration, [...]

Two-time Olympian Natalie Darwitz will captain the U.S. women’s hockey team in Vancouver. Angela Ruggiero and Jenny Potter, both heading into their record fourth Olympics, will be Americans’ alternate captains along with two-time Olympian Julie Chu, USA Hockey announced Thursday. Darwitz was the American captain during the past two international seasons, leading the U.S. team [...]

The Swiss skier Lara Gut announced Thursday that she had not recovered from a hip injury and would miss the Vancouver Olympics. Gut broke the news on her Web site, confirming what many in the sport had suspected because of the severity of her injury. She sustained a dislocated right hip when she crashed during [...]

Figure skater Miki Ando smiles while holding a ”Stitch” stuffed animal, a gift from a fan, at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, before leaving for the United States on Jan. 5, 2010. The 22-year-old Olympic athlete will be at the training base in Hackensack, New Jersey, before heading straight to Vancouver in February for [...]

Sasha Cohen‘s coach says the Olympic silver medallist intends to skate at the U.S. championships later this month in Spokane, Wash., with an eye on participating at the Vancouver Olympics. Cohen has been working “very, very hard,” long-time coach John Nicks says. The Chicago Tribune first reported Cohen’s plans Monday, with the skater telling the [...]