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By taking chances, Eileen Gu is building a sport. She's winning medals. Yet on a sunny Sunday at the Olympics where she defended her title on the halfpipe, maybe the best prize of all was knowing her grandma would be proud.

The first female president in the International Olympic Committee's 132 years got a proper stress test in the first games of her history-making leadership.

It wasn't the Miracle on Ice, but Sunday's 2-1 win over Canada in the Olympic men's hockey gold-medal game tasted almost as sweet for the U.S. team. The victory gave the Americans their first gold medal in hockey since the legendary upset over the ...

No miracle needed. The United States is on top of the hockey world for the first time in nearly a half-century.

Sweden curling skip Anna Hasselborg related how her daughter told her before the Olympics that "it's so boring when you don't have a medal."

Jadin O'Brien is thinking about 2028. Kaysha Love, Azaria Hill, Frank Del Duca and Kris Horn are already looking ahead to 2030. Kaillie Humphries Armbruster is wondering about 2034, maybe as an athlete, maybe in a different role.

The double-touching scandal that plagued his country's curling team was like "a foot fault in tennis or traveling in basketball," the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee said on Sunday.

After a vintage performance, New Orleans Pelicans center DeAndre Jordan was looking forward to getting home and enjoying a glass of wine.

Andre Mills scored 21 points to lead Maryland to a 64-60 win over Washington on Saturday.

The U.S. Olympic team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday, with at least one more good possibility when its men's hockey team wraps up the action on closing day with the title game against Canada.