On the final day of luge racing at the Yanqing National Sliding Center in Beijing, China, the United States foursome of Ashley Farquharson and Chris Mazdzer in singles and doubles team of Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander capped off their Olympic experiences with a seventh-place ...

BEIJING — Hannah Neise has never won a World Cup medal. Or a medal at the world championships. Or a medal from the European championships. She’s got an Olympic medal now. And it’s the one that everybody wants. Skeleton has a new champion, and she was a bit of a surprise ...

Ashley Farquharson returned to the Yanqing National Sliding Center on Tuesday and turned in USA Luge’s top singles performance, concluding her initial Team USA berth with a 12th place finish. She started the day in 18th place after two legs and steadily climbed the leaderboard with ...

BEIJING — Johannes Ludwig let all his rivals know back in November that he would be the one to beat at the Beijing Olympics. He was right. Ludwig is the Olympic men’s champion for the first time, making him the oldest — he’s eight days shy of turning 36 — to win that race’s ...

BEIJING — USA Luge’s Chris Mazdzer had X-rays on his aching right foot a few days ago, and the results were as expected. It’s still broken. With that, it became official: The U.S. men’s luge team was never fully healthy at any point this season. There were no medals for ...

Things don’t always go according to plan, but occasionally someone can exceed even her wildest expectations. Such was the case for Deedra Irwin of Pulaski, Wisconsin, who on Monday turned in the best Olympic performance ever by an American biathlete, finishing seventh in the women’s ...