the Winter Games

The embattled CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee resigned Wednesday, citing health problems, as the organization announced new initiatives to protect athletes from abuse. Scott Blackmun, who has headed the committee since 2010, has been under fire for weeks in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. He did not attend the Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea,...

Sabrina Wanjiku Simader finished 38th out of 44 in the women’s super-G in the Pyeongchang Games but the 19-year-old made the record books — as the first Alpine skier from Kenya to compete in a Winter Games. Simader follows Philip Boit, a cross-country skier who debuted at the 1998 Games in Nagano and who until now was the only Kenyan...

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir’s broadcast booth fashions and fiery figure skating commentary has delighted Olympic viewers with their larger-than-life personalities. And when the last figure skating event of the Pyeonchang Games ends on Friday (Thursday night in the U.S), fans won’t have to say goodbye to the duo, or their no-holds-barred approach to commentating, just yet.

Within hours of curler Alexander Krushelnitsky being stripped of a bronze medal for a doping violation, the Russian Olympic Committee said it had paid a $15 million fee that was part of the criteria to have its team reinstated at the Pyeongchang Games.

Yevgenia Medvedeva is going for gold on Thursday. She’ll get the chance to rock out to her favorite band in person a few nights later.

It was expected to be a coronation: snowboarder Shaun White, shredding the halfpipe in an epic performance that won him Olympic gold at Pyeongchang four years after a devastating loss in Sochi and just four months after a nasty fall during practice sent him to a hospital. But as he basked in the comeback story of the Winter Games, allegations...

The United States has won at least 25 Winter Olympic medals at each of the last four Games. With one week to go in Pyeongchang, the Americans have visited the podium just 10 times and are on pace to post their lowest medal count at Winter Games since 1998.

Japanese speed skater Nao Kodaira breaks an Olympic record, Alpine skier Marcel Hirscher continues to dominate and Norway is on top in the medal count. Here is the Pyeongchang Games by the numbers

Two Swiss Olympic athletes have contracted norovirus in recent days at the Pyeongchang Games. More than 200 people have been confirmed to have contracted the norovirus at the Winter Games. While most of them are security staff and personnel, the Swiss athletes are reportedly the first at these Olympics to be affected by the contagious virus. The Swiss team said...

A Jamaican beer company has picked up the tab for the country’s Olympic bobsledders. After driving coach Sandra Kiriasis left the women’s bobsled team just days before competition begins and reportedly threatened to take the bobsled with her, the team’s chance at an Olympic podium was cast in doubt. That’s when Red Stripe, the Jamaican beer brand, offered to help...

A San Francisco video game programmer has been getting a lot of extra attention on social media since the Olympics began, and not because he has any direct connection to the Winter Games in Pyeongchang. His name? Adam Rippon.

Jamaica’s bobsled driving coach, Sandra Kiriasis, has left the team just days before competition begins in Pyeongchang.

Prince Henrik, the French-born husband of Danish monarch Queen Margrethe who publicly vented his frustration at not being the social equal of his wife or their son in line to become Denmark’s king, died late Tuesday. He was 83. He was diagnosed with dementia last year and his health has worsened recently. Henrik had been transferred earlier in the day...

American teenager Maame Biney, an Olympic rookie at 18, finished last in her short track speedskating quarterfinal of the women’s 500 meters Tuesday, missing out on a final that turned into a waiting game. That result was a photo finish after Italian Arianna Fontana barely edged out hometown hero Choi Min-jeong.

An American figure skater made history, Jamie Anderson defended her title in the women’s slopestyle and the Canadian women’s hockey team kicked off its bid for a fifth straight Olympic gold medal in blistering fashion.

Perhaps no team has more to prove at the Pyeongchang Olympics than the U.S. speedskaters. Limited to one medal four years ago, they were eager to bounce back and show why their sport has produced the most medals for the U.S. in the Winter Games. The men got off to a good start Saturday, sending three skaters going through to...

Leading up to the Winter Games in Pyeongchang some U.S. Olympians are sharing “One Good Story.” The NBC Olympics twitter page has tweeted out short, animated videos of Olympians Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White and Mikaela Shiffrin telling funny and intriguing, personal stories about their lives.