Charlotte Bankes rues cruel nature of snowboard cross as dreams dashed again

The Briton said after finishing ninth in the Winter Olympic snowboard cross: ‘Sorry, I was hoping to put on a better show. It can be cruel’.

Curling’s uncle: 54-year-old lawyer who called out ICE becomes oldest US Winter Olympian

Rich Ruohonen, a personal injury attorney from Minnesota, said this week that ‘there’s no shades of gray’ around the federal occupation in his home state

Dolomites diary: lederhosen, late buses and the anatomy of an Olympic ski jumper

Andy Bull says covering the first week of events at Milano Cortina 2026 has been enlightening but not straightforward

Penisgate 2: Italian Olympic coverage takes Leonardo da Vinci’s genitals away

State broadcaster accused of censorship over opening titles that use altered version of Vitruvian Man, with organs removed

Olympic chiefs have got it badly wrong over Heraskevych ban and owe him an apology

As athletes we try to focus on our event and the task at hand, but our lives do not take place in a vacuum

‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones

All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire

Winter Olympics briefing: Heraskevych’s helmet dispute raises tough questions

The controversy over the IOC’s decision to bar the Ukrainian from competing has cast a long shadow over the Games

Ice in his veins: Australian skier Cooper Woods embraces pressure to realise Winter Olympic dream

In the final, the NSW south coast moguls skier laid down a run that edged out the sport’s most accomplished and decorated athlete

Winter Olympics 2026: Ukrainian athlete kicked out over helmet tribute, Lollobrigida claims dramatic speed skating gold – as it happened

Day six of Milano Cortina 2026 was overshadowed by the controversy over Vladyslav Heraskevych being barred from competing owing to his ‘helmet of memory’

Winter Olympics: Chloe Kim settles for silver in snowboard halfpipe – as it happened

Live report: The US snowboard star’s bid for a third straight gold medal was thwarted by South Korea’s Choi Gaon

Chloe Kim thwarted in bid for Olympic halfpipe three-peat by South Korea’s Choi Gaon

Chloe Kim was denied Olympic history in Livigno, settling for silver after a stunning final run by South Korea’s Choi Gaon

The scandals clouding ‘sinister’ French ice dancers who beat Americans for controversial gold

Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron’s Olympic competition is set against backdrop of assault and abuse allegations involving their former partners

Heraskevych’s ‘helmet of memory’ forces IOC on to PR back foot at Winter Olympics

Skeleton racer sacrificed his dream of winning a medal and succeeded in putting the horrors of the war in Ukraine back on the agenda

‘It’s emptiness’: banned Ukrainian athlete accuses IOC of fuelling Russia’s propaganda

The Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has been kicked out of the Winter Olympics after he refused to back down from wanting to wear a ‘helmet of memory’ in honour of Ukraine’s war dead