Biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen has done it again, getting his sixth career Olympic gold medal, this time anchoring his Norwegian team to a convincing win in the 4 X 7.5 km relay. Entering the final shooting stage of the relay, Bjoerndalen was in a dead heat with Russia’s Evgeny Ustyugov. It appeared the two skiers [...] Continue Reading

American’s Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane finished first and second respectively in the men’s individual long hill nordic combined at Whistler Olympic Park on Wednesday. Austria’s Bernhard Gruber led after the ski jumping portion of the event, but lost time during the 10km cross country ski, finishing in third position. Poor visibility and strong winds caused the ski [...] Continue Reading

 Olga Medvedtseva and her teammates from Russia took home the gold medal in the women’s biathlon 4×6 km relay at Whistler Olympic Park on Tuesday. The Russians were sitting in second place after the first two legs of the race, but were able to catch up to their counterparts from France, who won the silver medal, [...] Continue Reading

Janne Ryynaenen lead the Finnish nordic combined team to first place in the large hill event with the farthest jump on Tuesday. His teammate Anssi Koivuranta earned the highest judges point total on his jump. Team Finland is set to start first in the cross-country portion, a 4×5-kilometer relay race, beginning at 2:00 p.m. PT. The United [...] Continue Reading

The Canadian men’s Olympic hockey team will play Germany on Tuesday for a chance to match up against the Russians in the quarter-finals. Continue Reading

Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann added to his Olympic gold collection, winning his second gold of the Games in the long hill individual ski jump event at Whistler Olympic Pack, Saturday. Ammann came into the competition a heavy favourite and needed gold to be crowned the most successful Olympic ski jumper. With his first jump of 144.7 [...] Continue Reading

Stefan Read is the lone Canadian that will participate in Saturday’s large hill ski jumping final after qualification was held Friday. It is a bright spot for the Canadian ski jumping team after no Canadians qualified for the normal hill final held earlier in the Winter Games. The Edmonton native was 36th after the qualification run, with [...] Continue Reading

Emil Hegle Svendsen of Norway won gold in Men’s 20km Biathlon on Thursday with a time of 48:22.5 at Whistler Olympic Park. In an interesting twist, Norway’s Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Belarus’ Sergey Novikov both finished with the exact same time of 48:32.0 and were awarded silver medals. The 36 year old Bjoerndalen, won his 10th medal [...] Continue Reading

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total United States 6 5 7 18 Germany 4 4 3 11 Norway 3 3 2 8 Canada 3 3 1 7 France 2 1 4 7 South Korea 3 2 0 5 Austria 1 2 2 5 Switzerland 3 0 1 4 China 2 1 1 4 Russia 1 2 1 4 Italy 0 1 3 4 Sweden 2 0 1 3 Netherlands 1 1 1 3 Japan 0 1 2 3 Australia 1 1 0 2 Slovakia 1 1 0 2 Czech Republic 1 0 1 2 Poland 0 2 0 2 Belarus 0 1 1 2 Estonia 0 1 0 1 Latvia 0 1 0 1 Finland 0 1 0 1 Kazakhstan 0 1 0 1 Slovenia 0 0 1 1 Croatia 0 0 1 1 Continue Reading

Sweden’s Björn Ferry won the men’s Olympic 12.5 km biathlon pursuit on Tuesday in a time of 33:38.4. Continue Reading