Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Sports News (Master Feed)

(Reuters) - Most kids would be star-struck by simply watching the best professional golfers up close but 14-year-old Ratchanon Chantananuwat went much further by becoming the only amateur to make the ...

By Eduardo Baptista and Steve Keating BEIJING (Reuters) - The large number of foreign-born players in China's Olympic ice hockey teams has split opinion in the country, with some on social media decry...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Arianna Fontana became the only short track speed skater, female or male, to win nine Olympic medals when she took silver with Italy in the mixed team relay at the Beijing Games on...

By Simon Jennings YANQING, China (Reuters) - Spending months apart from her boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is tough on Mikaela Shiffrin but having someone she can share every detail of her private ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China won their first gold medal of their home Winter Olympics when they claimed the short track speed skating mixed team relay title on Saturday. Italy were second and Hungary fini...

By Sakura Murakami BEIJING (Reuters) - Speed skating fans were excited to discover on Saturday that women's 3,000 metres Olympic silver medallist Francesca Lollobrigida was the great-niece of Italian ...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) -Walter Wallberg of Sweden soared to gold in the men's freestyle moguls event at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, unseating favoured champion Mikael Kingsbury of Canada w...

By Sakura Murakami BEIJING (Reuters) - Claudia Pechstein became the oldest female Winter Olympian when she raced in the 3,000 metres speed skating at the Beijing Games on Saturday. Already the first w...

By Philip O'Connor ZHANGJIAKOU, China (Reuters) - There was no shortage of thrills and spills in Saturday's biathlon mixed relay but once Johannes Thingnes Boe entered the fray on the last leg it seem...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hwang Dae-heon added the Olympic record to his world best time as he qualified for the quarter-finals of the short track speed skating 1,000 metres event at the Beijing Games on Sa...