Ski mountaineering is new to the Olympics, but it's actually one of the oldest forms of skiing. Here's more on the treacherous sport that pushes athletes to their limits.

Wednesday's race had a surprise entrant.

From trudging up a mountain to immediately skiing down it, Anne Thompson explores the intricacies of the latest addition to the Winter Olympics: ski mountaineering, also known as “SkiMo.” The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut Thursday and crowned its first champion at the Milan Cortina Games in Marianne Fatton of Switzerland.

Young stars often get hyped up at the Winter Olympics. Teen skiers and early-20s snowboarders usually shape the games. Yet another group deserves just as much praise. These are the athletes who stayed in elite sport long after most

Good dog. Scary name.

Alysa Liu's dynamic performance in Thursday's free skate earned her a gold medal, the first for the United States in the women's individual event since Sarah Hughes in 2002. And she did it on her terms.

Joep Wennemars was the first of those contenders, the Dutch skater up in the 11th pair against Italy’s Daniele di Stefano. Wennemars was frustrated in the 1,000-meter event when he was impeded on a lane change, and while he took his re-skate he could not reach the podium.

MILAN (AP) — The past five hockey games at the Olympics have gone past regulation, providing repeated refreshers on how overtime rules work. The U.S. beat Canada in 3-on-3 OT in the women's final on Thursday,