South Korea’s Kim Yuna shrugged off the weight of expectation from her homeland to win figure skating gold on Thursday but Canada’s Joannie Rochette won most hearts by overcoming heavy personal grief to claim a bronze medal. An extraordinary day of raw human emotion and unrelenting drama at the Vancouver Winter Olympics also saw Norwegian [...]

South Korea’s Kim Yu-na has won the women’s figure skating gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics – and did it by setting a record. Kim shattered her own world mark by scoring 228.56 points, more than 18 higher than her previous record. She is the winner of South Korea’s first Olympic medal in the sport. [...]

Here what the Los Angeles Times writes about this super-star: Kim Yuna of South Korea leads after the short program of the women’s figure skating event on Tuesday at the Vancouver Olympics. Yuna, who skated to a James Bond medley, scored 78.50 points. Mao Asada of Japan is in second place with 73.78 points after [...]

Ursula Andress, Jane Seymour, Halle Berry – they’ve got nothing on the newest Bond Girl. Nobody does it better than Kim Yu-na. The South Korean skater delighted fans and judges alike with a playfully sexy and sophisticated James Bond medley Tuesday night in the women’s short program, shrugging off the enormous expectations that come with [...]

Manami Hino’s may not be the fastest bobsleigh racing down Whistler’s track on Tuesday but if medals were awarded for artistic impression it would win gold. The Japanese pilot and brakewoman Konomi Asazu will speed down in the opening heats in a gleaming sled adorned with stunning representations of their country’s rich culture. As well [...]

The worst thing for future U.S. prospects in ladies figure skating was not that Japan’s Shizuka Arakawa won the gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics and spawned a generation of spinning, spiraling, jumping Japanese skaters. The worst thing is the rise of Kim Yu-na, the reigning world champion who enters Vancouver as the heavy [...]

Torah Bright won Australia’s first gold of the Vancouver Games in women’s halfpipe Thursday, ending long-standing US domination of the sport. Bright’s winning score was 45.00 points, with 2006 champion Hannah Teter of America scoring 42.4 and her team-mate and 2002 gold medallist Kelly Clark on 42.2. “I was standing up there, and was like [...]

Gold medals for German women in the 10 kilometer biathlon and the luge have catapulted their country to the top of the medals’ table. Magdalena Neuner won on her skis, while Tatjana Huefner was quickest on her sled. Germany currently leads the medals table at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with three golds, four silvers, [...]

Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina won a shock Olympic gold medal on Saturday in the women’s 7.5 km biathlon sprint, seeing off silver winner and favourite Magdalena Neuner of Germany. Marie Dorin of France claimed bronze.

The head U.S. women’s Alpine speed coach said Saturday night that star racer Lindsey Vonn’s health has improved significantly, thanks to an extended vacation lavished upon her by Mother Nature. Now America’s biggest skiing draw is ready to make her charge in the Vancouver Games – whenever the elements see fit to let her. Sunday’s [...]