BEIJING — The British have clinched their first medal of the Beijing Games, thanks to Bruce Mouat and the men’s curling team. Four Scottish lads beat the American defending Olympic champions 8-4 in the semifinals Thursday night to clinch no worse than a silver medal and earn the ...

BEIJING— A Russian woman was standing atop the figure skating podium at the Beijing Games on Thursday night. It just wasn’t the one anyone expected. Even the fact that there was a podium was a surprise. Anna Shcherbakova, the overlooked world champion, delivered a clean ...

BEIJING — There was simply no way to predict this. Not for anyone, including Mikaela Shiffrin herself. That the American skier would go 0 for 5 in individual races at the Beijing Olympics, leaving without a medal from any and with a best showing of ninth place, was hard enough to ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — IOC president Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case that is preventing them from receiving their silver medals, The Associated Press has learned. Two people familiar with the ...

BEIJING — By now, Steven Holcomb might have been part of the USA Bobsled coaching staff. Perhaps he would have been involved in research and development. Or maybe he would be recruiting and wooing the next generation of sliders. He’d be involved, somehow. Yet make no mistake: nearly ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Elvira Oeberg skied out front, right where she wanted be, and stayed out front all the way to an Olympic gold medal. Oeberg anchored the Swedish team to victory in the four-woman biathlon relay on Wednesday, skiing fast and shooting clean to win her third medal of ...