So these won’t be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It’s looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegation instead. The Americans reached 34 medals with a silver and a bronze in short track speedskating Friday night, and two more were clinched with the men’s hockey team and men’s team pursuit in [...]

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. [...]

Gold Medal for KIM Yu-Na in figure skating

Russia won the women’s relay biathlon gold medal on Tuesday ahead of second-placed France while Germany – minus star performer Magdalena Neuner – finished with bronze. The Russian team’s winning time was 1hr 9min 36.3sec as France’s Sandrine Bailly produced a brilliant effort on the final leg to beat Germany to the silver as the [...]

Germany claimed the women’s cross country team sprint title on Monday with a battling performance as favourites Sweden took the silver while Russia claimed bronze at the Olympic Winter Games. The winning pair of Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad came home first in a time of 18mins 3.7sec with Sweden at 0.6sec back and the [...]

China’s new heroes are Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo who have gained the gold medal at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in the figure skating. Previous to their victory Russia had held on to the pairs gold title for 46 years. The Chinese pair had emerged from retirement in one more bid to win the [...]

A decision on whether two Chinese gymnasts were old enough to compete at the Sydney Olympics is expected in February after the athletes appeared before a disciplinary commission. Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun, along with their parents and two Chinese gymnastics officials, met Saturday and Sunday with the International Gymnastics Federation’s disciplinary commission. Dong and [...]

Russia has broken a national drought in women’s water polo by claiming the gold medal at the 8th FINA World Women’s Junior Water Polo Championships which took place in Khanty-Mansiysk (RUS) from August 9-15, 2009. The score of the final against the Netherlands was 14-9 (3-2, 0-4, 3-3, 3-5). Team Netherlands, which also played sharply [...]

One the most sexy Olympic Beauty is Olympic champion Wu Minxia. Wu represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics, earning a gold medal in the 3 meter women’s synchronized springboard along with Guo Jingjing before winning a silver medal in the 3 meter women’s synchronized springboard, coming in second place behind Guo Jingjing. China’s Olympic [...]