The latest in Winter Sports

US Open Snowboarding

2010-03-20T10:16:04Z

Shaun White is seen following halfpipe practice for the U.S. Open snowboarding championship in Stratton, Vt., Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

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US Ski Team chief arrested on DUI charge

2010-03-20T19:00:05Z

<div id="subtitle">US Ski Team chief Bill Marolt apologizes after DUI arrest in Utah</div><div><p>U.S. Ski Team chief Bill Marolt issued an apology Saturday after being arrested days earlier on suspicion of driving under the influence not far from the team's headquarters in Park City.</p><p>In a brief statement, Marolt apologized for his Wednesday night arrest, which came just days after the team completed one of its mos...

Schonfelder wins fourth Paralympic gold

2010-03-20T16:15:56Z

<div><p>Germany's Gerd Schonfelder captured his fourth Paralympics gold medal on Saturday when he claimed victory in the super combined (standing) ski event.</p><p>The 39-year-old was second fastest in the morning super-G section (1min 21.59sec) before ensuring the title with the third best time in the afternoon slalom (50.25).&...

Skiing Umsteads make Paralympics a family affair

2010-03-20T12:15:31Z

<div><p>Every time American ski racer Danelle Umstead charges down Whistler Mountain at the Paralympics, her husband's voice directs her every move down the treacherous course.</p><p>Like all of the racers in visually-impaired...

First musher from Jamaica finishes Iditarod

2010-03-19T23:45:17Z

<div id="subtitle">First musher from Jamaica completes 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race</div><div><p>The first musher from Jamaica to enter the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has reached the finish line at Nome, three days after Lance Mackey won for an unprecedented fourth consecutive time.</p><p>...

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold

2010-03-19T15:15:56Z

<div><p>Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.</p><p>The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Canada's Joannie Rochette reacting after receiving her bronze medal at the women's figure skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Col...

Rochette Future Figure Skating

2010-03-19T14:46:10Z

FILE - This March 1, 2010, file photo shows Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette talking with reporters in Montreal, Canada. Rochette never needed figure skating more than at the Vancouver Olympics. It gave her a comfort zone as she competed days after her mother died...

Stricken skater Plushenko to miss world championships

2010-03-19T11:17:24Z

<div><p> Former Olympic champion Yevgeny Plushenko has been ruled out of the upcoming world figure skating championships on medical grounds, it was reported by RIA Novosti news agency Friday.</p><p>Russian figure skating federation chief Valentin Piseyev said Plushenko would miss the March 23-...

Olympics, higher gasoline prices push up inflation

2010-03-19T07:15:23Z

<div><p>Consumer prices rose 1.6 percent in the 12 months to February due primarily to higher gasoline prices and Vancouver hotel costs during the Winter Olympics, a government agency said Friday.</p><p>The February increase was slightly higher than analysts' consensus forecast of 1.5 percent.</p><p>Statistics Canada said "gasoline prices exerted...

Jamaican breaks new ground in Alaska dogsled race

2010-03-18T16:16:31Z

<div><p>Before he began racing sled dogs competitively, Newton Marshall had never traveled. "Nobody knew about dog sledding in Jamaica," he says.</p><p>The 27-year-old from St. Ann Parish in Jamaica, stopped to talk in Koyuk, Alaska, a checkpoint along the trail o...

Aussies push for snowboard green light

2010-03-18T14:16:18Z

<div><p>International Paralympic team officials will meet Friday to consider adding snowboarding to the roster of competitions at the games.</p><p>The informal meeting in Whistler, venue of alpine events during the current winter games, was organized by Canadian ski and snowboard associations, Jason Hellwig, CEO of the Australian Paralympic Committ...

Premiere The Bounty Hunter NY

2010-03-18T12:19:07Z

Alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn arrives to the premiere of "The Bounty Hunter" at The Ziegfeld Theater in New York, on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)

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2010 Paralympic Games- Day 6

2010-03-17T15:31:04Z

VANCOUVER, BC - MARCH 17: Augusto Perez (R) of the United States speaks to his teammates during the Wheelchair Curling Round Robin game between the United States and Norway on day six of the

US skier Nichols joins select double gold club

2010-03-17T15:16:03Z

<div><p>Alana Nichols has joined a select Paralympics club with her gold medal victory in the women's giant slalom allowing her to boast titles in two different sports.</p><p>After winning gold with the U.S. women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games, the 26-year-old Nichols turned her att...

Russia's Zaripov claims third gold

2010-03-17T13:15:56Z

<div><p>Russia's Irek Zaripov won his third gold medal of the 2010 Paralympics on Wednesday when he took victory in the biathlon 12.5km sitting event.</p><p>Zaripov won in a time of 42min 22.4sec, adding the gold to his 2.4km pursuit and 15km cross-country title.</p><...

Lance Mackey wins 4th consecutive Iditarod

2010-03-17T11:00:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Lance Mackey notches 4th straight victory in 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race</div><div><p>Lance Mackey picked up a few rewards on his way to winning an unprecedented fourth consecutive win in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.</p><p>The 39-year-old musher from Fairbanks st...

Russians dominate cross country and biathlon

2010-03-17T09:17:14Z

<div><p>Prior to the start of the Vancouver Paralympics, Russian cross-country skiing and biathlon head coach Irina Gromova predicted her squad would struggle for medals.</p><p>Instead, her countrymen have dominated the proceedings through four days of competition, le...

Iditarod Sled Dog Race

2010-03-17T02:23:30Z

Lance Mackey holds two of his dogs, Rev and Maple, who wear rose garlands, after Mackey won his fourth consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, in Nome, Alaska. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, B...

Mackey wins fourth straight Iditarod dog sled race

2010-03-16T18:00:30Z

<div><p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Lance Mackey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday, becoming the first musher to notch four consecutive victories in the world's most famous dog-racing event.</p><p>...