Now, more than 40 years after Denver became the only city to withdraw as an Olympic host after winning a bid, it is exploring whether to try again after many cities have decided it’s just not worth it.
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No amount of soaring visuals or tear-jerking features or hokey patriotism could gloss over this reality: Team USA did not live up to expectations at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Marit Bjoergen has left a legacy that will be hard to top. In her final Olympic race, the most decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Games obliterated the field, winning the 30-kilometer mass start cross-country ski race by 1 minute, 49 seconds over silver medalist Krista Parmakoski of Finland.
This was an Olympic men’s hockey tournament played without NHL stars, to mostly half-empty arenas and with tepid interest in North America and in a host country still getting to know the sport.
The overtly political 2018 Winter Olympics closed Sunday night very much as they began, with humanity’s finest athletes marching exuberantly across the world stage as three nations with decades of war and suspicion among them shared a VIP box — and a potential path away from conflict.
Las Vegan Evan Weinstock’s Winter Olympics ended with a ninth-place finish in the four-man bobsled Saturday night in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Gus Kenworthy stood stone-faced, a shivering black puppy curled in his arms and more scurrying around him on the dirty, uneven cement floor.
After all that curling, skating, skiing and more, the Winter Olympics are finally coming to a close.
John Shuster’s last throw in the eighth end of the Olympic curling final clacked off one Swedish stone and knocked it into another, sending them both skittering out of scoring range.
The American men have won the Olympic gold medal in curling in a decisive upset of Sweden.
Here’s what’s happening at the Winter Olympics on Saturday, Feb. 24.
Las Vegan Evan Weinstock and his teammates in the four-man bobsled are ninth after two runs Friday night in the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Athletes at the Pyeongchang Olympics haven’t held back on their emotions, whether they have won or lost their competitions.
It has been a rough few days for Canada at its best Winter Olympics ever because of struggles in the two sports that are most tightly woven into its national identity.
Here’s what’s happening at the Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 23.