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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Having wallowed in a "dark cloud" at the start of the year, Madison Keys booked her first Grand Slam semi-finals in four years on Tuesday with a 6-3 6-2 upset of Barbora Krejciko...

(Reuters) - Focus on curling at the 2022 Beijing Olympics: THE ABSOLUTE BASICS * Two teams of four players use brooms to slide granite stones on a rectangular sheet of ice towards a target area which ...

By Hritika Sharma (Reuters) - Niklas Edin has skipped his rink to two Winter Games podiums, five World Championship crowns and seven European titles and, while Olympic gold has so far eluded him, the ...

(Reuters) - Focus on short track speed skating at the Beijing Olympics THE ABSOLUTE BASICS The event made its Olympic debut at the Albertville Games in 1992, four years after being introduced as a dem...

(Reuters) - South Korea and China have won more than half of the Olympic titles in short track speed skating, which is dominated by Asian athletes, but the greatest skater might be Italy's Arianna Fon...

(Reuters) - Focus on speed skating at the Beijing Olympics THE ABSOLUTE BASICS For the individual events, athletes race around a 400-metre oval ice rink for set distances ranging from 500m to 10,000m ...

By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - One in five Olympic speed skating gold medalists are Dutch but their dominance of the sport could be tested at the Beijing Winter Games by powerful Japanese and U....

By Rory Carroll (Reuters) - United States women's national team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher on Monday said she is fully recovered from the right knee injury she suffered during the Tokyo Olympics and ret...

(Reuters) - Olympic gold medallist Kendall Coyne Schofield will serve as captain of the U.S. women's ice hockey team at the Beijing Games next month, USA Hockey announced on Monday. The 29-year-old fo...

(Reuters) - The United States will send its second-largest Winter Olympic contingent to compete in Beijing next month, with 222 athletes vying to bring home medals after a disappointing outing in Pyeo...