The U.S. speed skating team has two best hopes against a powerful South Korean team that took three-...

This year, the U.S. team is a serious medal contender in Nordic Combined, a sport that combines ski jumping with...

Olympic athletes have long worn special competition clothing to gain an edge. Science and technology continue to...

The stakes are high for the snowboarders in Vancouver as they try to master new tricks to unseat the star of Torino,...

One of the most popular team sports in the Winter Olympics is hockey. More than just a physical game, for scientists,...

In skiing events like the downhill, slalom or ski jump it's often the skis that are bound to an athlete's feet--and...

The ice skates worn by this year's hockey players, figure skaters and speed skaters are vastly different from what...

As athletes push themselves to their limits and sometimes crash or collide, they rely on protective gear to keep them...

The Olympics are a unique chance to marvel at the physical abilities of these world-class athletes. But what makes...

It's been called "the Queen of Sciences"--mathematics. It might not be as obvious in Olympic sports as physics or...

The United States hasn't won an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since 1976, but in 2010, several skiers hope to...

Every four years, we watch the stakes for Olympic figure skaters get higher, as they try to increase rotation in the...

Increasing the time of a collision from a tenth of a second to two tenths of a second can make a huge difference in...

Curling has been in the Winter Olympics for four years now, but it still seems a little strange to most of us. John...