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BEIJING (Reuters) - Miho Takagi of Japan won gold in the women's speed skating 1,000 metres at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday. Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands claimed silver and Brittany Bowe of th...

By Amy Tennery BEIJING (Reuters) - Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin made the remarkable seem almost routine on Thursday, clinching the Olympic gold medal-winning goal yet again in a career that sh...

By Philip O'Connor ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) - Sweden's Sandra Naeslund stood at the gate for her four-woman Olympic ski cross final and promised herself that she wasn't going to have a repeat of t...

By Hritika Sharma BEIJING (Reuters) - Reigning champions the United States overcame a shaky round-robin run to advance to the men's curling semi-finals while Britain and Japan secured spots in the wom...

By Mitch Phillips ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) - Austria edged to a marginal eight-second lead over Norway in the ski jumping ahead of the cross-country section in a snowy Nordic combined men's large ...

By David Kirton YANQING, China (Reuters) - As the women's bobsleigh teams prepare to push to their limits in the Olympic competition starting on Friday, come competitors believe they are also pushing ...

By Philip O'Connor ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) - Simen Hegstad Krueger has been picked in Norway's four-man team for Saturday's 50km freestyle race, the final men's cross-country event of the Beijing...

By Hritika Sharma BEIJING (Reuters) - Niklas Edin's hometown of Ornskoldsvik is famous for producing some of ice hockey's greatest players, with Olympic champion Peter Forsberg and NHL All-Star twins ...

By Philip O'Connor and Mari Saito ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) -Sweden's Sandra Naeslund won the women's ski cross final at the Beijing Games, taking home the gold after dominating from the start of o...

By Simon Evans YANQING, China (Reuters) -Switzerland's Michelle Gisin retained her Olympic title in the women's combined on Thursday as American Mikaela Shiffrin yet again failed to finish. Gisin won ...