Ukraine decides against pullout
UKRAINE will compete in the Sochi Winter Paralympics after deciding against a boycott in protest against Russia’s intervention in Crimea.
Winter Olympics
Torah Bright smacks down her haters
AUSSIE snowboarder Torah Bright copped a lot of flak for her “negative attitude” during the Winter Olympics. But now Bright has slapped down her critics.
Perrine enjoys perfect preparation
ALL Melissa Perrine wanted was a smooth run into Sochi after a crash ruined her Vancouver Paralympics preparation.
Ski amputee’s brave Sochi return
SIX years ago Matthias Lanzinger was one of the fastest and best alpine skiers in the world.
Ukraine protest in Sochi village
UKRAINE is expected to today announce whether it will boycott the Sochi Paralympics after its athletes staged a protest.
A mug’s guide to Sochi Paralympics
YOUR armchair guide with everything you’ll need to know about the Sochi Winter Paralympic Games.
Lindsay has blind faith
IMAGINE standing at the top of a steep mountain, skis on and throwing yourself down at rapid speed with no vision.
Sochi fall paralysed skier
A RUSSIAN freestyle skier who suffered a serious accident at the Sochi Winter Olympics is permanently paralysed.
Break won’t stop flag-bearer
FLAG-BEARER Cameron Rahles-Rahbula has vowed to attend the Sochi opening ceremony despite breaking his leg.
Rahles-Rahbula hurt in crash
AUSTRALIA’S Paralympic flag bearer Cameron Rahles-Rahbula has crashed at high speed and been taken for X-rays.
Teen wonder boy ready for chance
ORDINARILY, Ben Tudhope would be sitting in a classroom at Shore Grammar in Sydney, just like any other 14-year-old.
Dad flags special moment in Sochi
CAMERON Rahles-Rahbula to carry the flag for Australia in the opening ceremony of the Sochi Paralympic Games
Icy blasts didn’t faze me, says Chumpy
SNOWBOARD star Alex Pullin says the Team Outcast controversy was “sad” but funding rows played no role in his failure to bag a medal at Sochi.
Leg, boot, $10K of wax missing
AUSTRALIA’S preparations for the start of the Sochi Paralympics are in chaos with lost luggage and thousands of dollars of skiing equipment missing.
Ice warriors chase golden dream
TWO American sled hockey players who lost their legs in the same accident will add another chapter to their journey in Sochi.
Beefed-up Aussie set for Sochi
WINTER Paralympian Mitch Gourley has been eating six meals a day to match it with the world’s fastest skiers in Sochi.
Skier paralysed after Sochi crash
THE Russian freestyle skier who was hospitalised following an accident in Sochi has no feeling from the waist down.
We’re the world’s third worst
AUSTRALIA made the podium for underperforming Winter Olympics teams in Sochi, international media analysis suggests.
Russia put on farewell spectacular
WHILE Russia had a triumphant farewell, one of Australia’s most respected Winter Olympians took the stick to Torah Bright.
Torah ‘should be ashamed’
FIVE-time Winter Olympian Jacqui Cooper has slammed Torah Bright over her behaviour and performance at the Sochi Games.
Winter Olympics — Fakes v facts
THE Winter Olympics produced some crazy stories. We reveal which ones were real and the ones that were just too good to be true.
Thanks for the sexy memories Sochi
THE Winter Olympics are over. That’s it. Snow more. But at least these hot, young athletes can go home with some very sexy memories.
Those Russians do have a sense of humour after all
IT WAS one of the most famous flubs from the Sochi Opening Ceremony, and it turns out the Russians don’t mind poking fun at themselves.
Child star ‘belongs to Russia now’
IT’S the one-word interview with Yulia Lipnitskaya which said more than a thousand words could ever reveal.
Maple thieves spring Aussie trap
AN Australian bobsledder who now represents Canada has hit out at authorities over being demoted to the slower team.
Goodbye to wonderful Sochi
CHANNEL Ten commentator Steven Lee has been highly impressed with the Sochi Games, calling it ‘absolutely brilliant’.
Sochi: Let’s get this party started
VLADIMIR PUTIN’s Russia has pulled off the improbable, closing its mind-bending Olympics in party mode.
Comment: it’s money well spent
ALEX “Chumpy” Pullin has confided that when he lined up to race for gold, he felt his reputation was under a cloud.
Chesterman: team was distracted
AUSTRALIA’S Winter Olympics chief Ian Chesterman says the “team outcast” controversy distracted the team.
Sochi hit by fourth doping case
THE Olympic Games were hit by two fresh doping cases overnight, taking the total number of failed drugs tests to four.
The little town with the $57 billion main street
JUST a couple of streets behind a five star Marriott hotel and a four storey nightclub called Skybar where Olympic athletes ogle thong-clad pole dancers, lies is an authentic Russian mountain village.
14 photos of Russians looking ridiculously happy
RUSSIANS are dour, miserable people who hate Westerners, never smile and have an unnatural obsession with vodka, right? Wrong. Just ask these people.
Coates getting extreme
OLYMPICS supremo John Coates has become a skater boy. He’s got a thing for indoor rock climbing as well.
Please go to Rio, Tony
OLYMPICS supremo John Coates has issued a plea to Prime Minister Tony Abbott: please come to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Morris named Aussie flagbearer
DAVID Morris will be Australia’s flagbearer at the Sochi Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony, a decision that wasn’t hard to predict.
Canada freezes out USA
DEFENDING champ Canada defeated the United States 1-0 to reach the hockey gold medal match at the Winter Olympics.
Lockett just misses skate semis
DEANNA Lockett secured a ninth-placed finish in the women’s 1000m short track speed skating event in Sochi.
Gold medallist tests positive
THE first doping cases have hit Sochi after a double gold-medal winning German female biathlete tested positive.
Kerrigan ‘teary’ 20 yrs after attack
NANCY Kerrigan was emotional after watching a one-hour retrospective on the figure skating scandal that shook the Olympics 20 years ago.
Sochi: Ten highs and lows
DAVID Morris soared and Alex “Chumpy” Pullin hit the floor. Ten highs and ten lows from a riveting two weeks in Sochi:
Coaches defend Sotnikova’s gold
ADELINA Sotnikova’s coaches have hit back at claims her figure skating gold was due to favouritism by Russian judges.
No more mountain medals
SHE wasn’t quite the cat who got the cream, but Katya Crema was still licking her lips in satisfaction after finishing seventh in the ladies’ ski cross.
We’re a five-ring circus
THE Winter Olympics in Sochi has been just about as bad as it gets for Australian Olympic sport.
You can’t put a price on inspiration
IT is impossible to put a dollar figure on the cost of each Olympic medal. Our children need role models. They need to be inspired by winners.
Smash, crash, where’s our cash?
VIDEO: WHAT does Olympic snowboard and ski cross funding buy you? Six crashes from our seven racers so far.
Skating scores tough to figure
FROST BITES: RUSSIA has won its first ever women’s figure skating gold, but the judges’ marks have raised plenty of eyebrows.
‘It’s a bitch fight out there’
JENNY Owens is a delightful person who is an inspiration. But once she’s out on course, she’s quite different.
Ukraine skier quits in protest
A UKRAINIAN alpine skier has pulled out of the Sochi Games in protest at the authorities’ deadly use of force in Kiev.
Sheehan bombs out in ski halfpipe
AUSTRALIA’S last genuine medal hope went down the pipe in Sochi with Amy Sheehan finishing 10th in the ski halfpipe.
‘Wolf in my hall?’ asks Olympian
US winter Olympian Kate Hansen got the fright of her life when she opened her dorm door to see a wolf walking past, and she filmed the whole thing.
‘The Beard’ fluffs it in Sochi
FANS held up signs saying “Fear The Beard”. But in the end, the Ned Kelly beard of Aussie ski cross racer Anton Grimus was not to be feared.
Surf’s up… in Sochi?
FROST BITES: Leave it to a skier from California to try and grab some waves in Sochi in the middle of February.
No extra cash for 2018, warns Coates
AOC boss John Coates has warned that no more money will be available to plough into developing winter sports champions for the 2018 Games.
$250m battle for Olympic TV rights
A $250-million battle for the TV rights to the next three Olympics is being played out behind the scenes in Sochi.
Olympians banned from honouring the dead
OF ALL the insane bureaucratic nonsense that infests competitions like the Winter Olympics, this is probably the worst example.
Russia Finnished in ice hockey
RUSSIA have crashed out of the Olympic Games ice hockey tournament, losing 3-1 to Finland in the quarter-finals.
$6.7m per Aussie medal at Sochi
THE price of an Olympic medal at Sochi for Australia is about $6.7 million, with about $20m spent on our Russian campaign.
Cossacks use whips on Pussy Riot
COSSACK militia have attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with whips and removed members’ trademark ski masks in Olympic host city Sochi.
Jana eyes 100m sprint in Rio
A SLOW sled cost her a medal, but Jana Pittman says she’s never been happier and has her eyes on bigger prizes ahead.
Olympian goes too far on Instagram
LOLO Jones is rather prolific on Instagram, as you’d expect from an athlete with such a big following. But her latest post would have made Olympic organisers a little uncomfortable.
Snowboard couple both win medals
US-born Vic Wild has won a gold medal for Russia just fifteen minutes after his wife Alena Zavarzina won bronze.
Morris’s wee performance problem
AFTER winning an Olympic silver medal, Australia’s David Morris struggles to perform when it matters … during the drug test.
All our athletes have done us proud
SO far in Sochi 2014, the price of Olympic gold has been a little too high for a Winter Games minnow like Australia.
Olympic ‘tennis parent problem’
A SENIOR Australian Olympic official has admitted the snowboard team has a “tennis parents problem”.
Sochi’s real-life Disney couple
FROST BITES: With his flowing locks and her perfect glittery smile, this figure skating pair could pass as a Disney prince and princess.
That’s an interesting way to take a bath …
CANADIAN bobsledder Heather Moyse wanted to take a bath in Sochi, but she couldn’t find a tub. So she switched to an interesting backup plan and shared it with the internet.
Lockett has her Bradbury moment
DEANNA Lockett has scraped into the 1000m short track speed skating quarter-finals, using Steven Bradbury tactics.
Olympic heavyweights: ‘We overate’
ASTRID Radenovic and Jana Pittman admit they need to lose weight quickly if they are to be bobsleigh medal contenders.
Chumpy’s Olympic dream shattered
MAYBE it was the pressure, maybe it was the conditions and maybe it was just the nature of this wild event called boardercross.
Pussy Riot punks arrested in Sochi
TWO members of Pussy Riot ran out of a police station in their trademark balaclavas after being released following questioning in Sochi.
Usain Bolt to try bobsledding?
THE Jamaican Olympic bobsledders are hinting superstar sprinter Usain Bolt could join the team.
Not the ‘fifth female’ anymore
AUSTRALIA’S women’s aerial team has been so strong for so many years that rivals used to ridicule our lone male competitor David Morris.
Surprise silver medalist overcame odds
THE dazzling skills that won aerial skier David Morris an Australian-first Olympic silver medal were first learnt at a leech-infested pond in Lilydale.
Jamaicans get serious, but stay cool
FROST BITES: WHAT would an Olympics be without national stereotypes, but spare a thought for the Jamaican bobsleigh team.
Just reward for a true fighter
DISCOVER new Olympic silver medallist David Morris’ tough road to the top and how a chance encounter with a skiing great started the Melbourne boy on his way.
It’s bobsled time! Jamaica’s bizarre music video
THIS is better than Cool Runnings. Jamaica’s bobsleigh team was never going to win anything in Sochi, but that didn’t stop them from releasing a bizarre music video.
Best Sochi smashes and crashes
THE best faceplants, wipe-outs and just plain bodacious blowouts seen so far at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Ouch! Skier tweets nasty injury after fall
THE Winter Olympics aren’t all fun and games. Those flips, corkscrews and incredible tricks can go very, very wrong. When they do, it’s extremely dangerous.
Olympic bros spurred by cancer
TAYLOR Fletcher followed his brother Bryan into Nordic after the sport helped the older sibling deal with cancer.
The medallist we tried to reject
AUSTRALIA, meet your first new medallist at these Sochi Winter Olympic Games whose name is neither Lydia nor Torah.
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