Many Olympic athletes represent 'AIN' country, but what does AIN mean? And why isn't Belarus and Russia in the Olympics?

Jens Luraas Oftebro, left, swept all three Nordic combined competitions. Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP via TESERO, Italy — Ski jumping and cross-country skiing through steady snowfall, Norway’s ...

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he ...

Norway dominated Nordic combined at the Milan Cortina Winter Games as the sport faces possible Olympic elimination.

The sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing with .22-caliber rifles, developed out of Scandinavian military training exercises, so it’s not surprising that many of the biathletes compet ...

All five figure skating champions at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games have been crowned. Olympic figure skating took its final curtain call until 2030 on Thursday as Alysa Liu won gold and snapped the ...

IT’S safe to say that the Winter Olympics 2026 has had its fair share of drama and entertainment – but the medals are what athletes want the most. Skeleton superstar Matt Weston wrote ...

Why you rarely see low-income countries at the Winter Olympics: A skeleton sled costs more than many earn in a year.

Russian figure-skating coach Eteri Tutberidze upended the last Winter Games. Now her latest student, 18-year-old Adeliia ...

US skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin sensationally ended her Olympic drought, winning gold in the women’s slalom. Follow CNN for live updates of Day 12 of the Games.

At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Team USA is led by flagbearer Erin Jackson and includes a record number of Black athletes, including two-time Olympian Erin Jackson, Laila Edwards, Mystique Ro, and Elana ...

Kenya’s France-based Issa Laborde cruises down the hill in a past skiing championships. Laborde will compete at the 2024 ...