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.
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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.
Chumpy’s girl gets behind her man
ALEX Pullin’s sweetheart, Ellidy Vlug, was on hand to comfort the snowboarder as drama surrounded his tilt at an Olympic gold.
#Teamoutcast dad pulls his head in
REBEL Olympic dad Bruce Brockhoff has issued a humiliating apology for his attack on snowboarder Alex “Chumpy” Pullin.
Fury as interview drives Olympian to tears
NBC reporter Christin Cooper went for ratings gold in Sochi. She failed spectacularly, driving Olympic skier Bode Miller to tears in a cringe-worthy interview.
Gay activist ‘detained in Sochi’
AN ACTIVIST says she was detained by police at the Olympics while carrying a rainbow flag that read in Russian: “Gay is OK.”
The slide that silenced Jana
ON her first run down a bobsleigh track, Jana Pittman, known for her rambling interviews and forthright opinions, was speechless.
Fog forces Chumpy to wait
THE event the whole of Australia has been waiting for at the Sochi Winter Olympics has been postponed due to fog.
Torah’s mum ‘ill’ over Chumpy attack
TORAH Bright’s mother says she feels ill over by the attack on Alex “Chumpy” Pullin from a parent of an Australian Olympic snowboarder.
Why ‘Chumpy’ is the spirit of Sochi
THE official motto of these Winter Olympics is “Hot. Cool. Yours”. It could have been written for Alex “Chumpy” Pullin who will compete for gold tonight.
Outcasts fume over Chumpy cash
THE angry parent of an Australian snowboarder has ignited a row only hours before “Chumpy” Pullin races for gold.
Is this guy too gay for TV?
THE claws are out — and just when we thought we’d seen all the Olympic figure skating action on the rink, turns out we have a “gay-off” on our hands off the rink.
Bobsledder’s hilarious wardrobe malfunction
SOME might say he had a lot of guts, others that it was just funny. Here’s what happened when bobsledder Chris Spring told Twitter about his wardrobe malfunction.
Weather not ideal, to put it mildly
FROST BITES: CRITICISM of Sochi conditions isn’t likely to melt away soon, with the weather warmer than at the London summer Games.
Outcasts lack class in funding row
ALEX “Chumpy” Pullin deserves the chance to race for gold on Monday night without a row exploding over athlete funding.
Fan-tache-tic! Sochi star’s bold look
ROCKING a Mitchell Johnson-style mustache, Czech snowboarder Eva Samkova claimed Olympic gold in Sochi.
Skater cancels Twitter after abuse
A SKATER has deleted her Twitter account after being implicated in a Steven Bradbury-style pile-up during the women’s 500m final.
Brockhoff robbed by maple thief
AUSTRALIAN snowboarder Belle Brockhoff missed the final of the snowboard cross, coming to grief courtesy of a Canadian.
A Cold War grudge match for the ages
WITH Nirvana blaring out and cheerleaders in short skirts waving pompoms, Team USA must have almost felt at home.
Too fast? Too dangerous? No worries
ALEX “Chumpy” Pullin is worried that Sochi’s snowboard cross course is too fast — but he vows not to complain about it.
Torah didn’t train before Sochi win
EXCLUSIVE: IT’S the equivalent of an Olympic swimmer not touching the water for months before an Olympics.
US wins a cold war over Russia
THE classic grudge match between Russia and the USA served up one of the greatest matches yet in a rivalry that stretches back in the Cold War.
Major injuries a rite of passage
FOR nearly every athlete at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Sochi, there is a tale of injury, rehabilitation and the long road back to competition.
Skier fractures spine at Sochi
FREESTYLE skier Maria Komissarova has been seriously injured while training on the Sochi Olympic course for the ski-cross event.
Bradbury: Winter Olympics is powering
TRAVELLING the globe, competing in four Winter Olympics and commentating on another three, I have seen a lot.
Schoolboy Hughes no ‘Chumpy fan’
SNOWBOARDING schoolboy Jarryd Hughes is not a member of the fan club cheering on Australia’s top snowboarder, Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin.
Build the water park, says Lydia
SOCHI bronze medallist Lydia Lassila says Australia needs to quickly build a $6m water jump park to develop our next aerial skiing champion.
Lydia: I’ve made my mark forever
THE night after her extraordinary bronze medal in Sochi, Lydia Lassila had her first drink in 10 months.
Steele slides to 14th
VETERAN slider Michelle Steele will likely retire from skeleton after a disappointing 14th at the Winter Olympics.
Russia on a roll
FORMER Winter Olympics STEVEN LEE writes in an exclusive column that this is becoming the Olympics he hoped it would.
Lassila wins bronze medal
IF THEY awarded Olympic medals for guts, they would have handed Lydia Lassila gold, silver and bronze in Sochi.
Nice guy Pullin becomes snow warrior
THE warrior spirit is emerging in Australian nice-guy Alex “Chumpy” Pullin ahead of his snowboard cross event on Monday.
Aussies accuse ‘unfair’ Russians
THE Aussies have accused the Russians of playing dirty at the skeleton, but their protests fell on deaf ears.
Skater does a Bradbury
VIDEO: A Chinese skater did a Steven Bradbury to win gold at the Winter Olympics short track speed skating.
’They’re burgers, not nuggets’
FROST BITES: ’Stoner’ skier sets record straight, a Russian curler eats ice and the mystery of the extra gold medals is solved.
Swede has good crack in Sochi
WATCH as a Swedish skier is the butt of jokes in Sochi after his pants fell down to his knees in the men’s slopestyle.
Torah’s bittersweet Sochi success
SOCHI silver medallist Torah Bright has spoken for the first time about the trauma of last year’s marriage breakup.
Jumping the aerial guns
IT MAY just go down as the greatest act of recruiting in Australian sports history. And Lydia Lassila is in hot form.
Bobsleigh ‘breaks worker’s leg’
A BOBSLEIGH has smashed into a course worker at the Olympics, breaking at least one of the man’s legs.
Topless skier receives new support
AN OLYMPIC skier depicted in revealing photographs and a video that circulated on the internet said her country’s sports officials are “on my side.’’
Bright set for brutal transition
SILVER snowboarder Torah Bright must shift her focus from “dancing” in the halfpipe to the brutal world of snowboard cross.
No joy for Russ in slopestyle final
AUSTRALIAN skier Russ Henshaw has missed out on a medal in the men’s slopestyle final in Sochi on Thursday night.
The ridiculous ban on congratulating athletes
“WELL done, we are proud of you.” Oops, careful, you can’t say that. An Australian ski resort has been banned from associating with Aussie athletes competing at the winter games.
Aussie boarder critical after crash
MELBOURNE para-snowboarder Matthew Robinson is in a critical condition in hospital in Barcelona after a racing accident.
Tinder app stoking Olympic flames
FROST BITES: THE traditional hotbed of lust that is the athletes’ village has gone hi-tech, with a ‘networking’ app all the rage in Sochi.
Incredible deadheat for Sochi gold
FOR the first time in Olympic history, an Alpine skiing race ended in a tie for Olympic gold. Check out the video.
Torah claims silver at Sochi
WATCH THE RUN: TORAH Bright has claimed silver for Australia, leaving it until her last run to post her medal-winning score.
Our happiest Winter Olympian
MEET Steph Magiros. She’s the one with feathers in her cap and gold eye makeup and a big smile no halfpipe can remove.
Gutsy Greig makes up for fall
DANIEL Greig, who fell only 10 steps into his pet 500m race, restored some pride with a gutsy effort at the Sochi Olympics.
Lassila airs displeasure at media
AUSSIE star Lydia Lassila has criticised the media’s delight in showing dramatic crashes and spills at Sochi.
Dad’s hammy powering Russ
AUSTRALIAN slopestyle skier Russ Henshaw can thank part of his dad’s hamstring for helping him to make Sochi.
Canadian helps fallen Russian skier
A CANADIAN coach helped a Russian cross country skier to finish after he broke a ski in a crash in the men’s sprint.
I-Pod hearts Kate Moss
MEMO to Kate Moss: Switzerland’s new gold medallist halfpipe snowboarder Iouri Podladtchikov likes you.
Millionaire seeks curling gold
A MILLIONAIRE has swept his business interests aside as he chases a curling gold medal in Sochi.
The dark side of Torah Bright
THERE’S a siege mentality developing around Torah Bright – let’s hope it spurs her on to perform at her best.
Dale accent quip turns air frosty
FROST BITES: BE careful when commenting on how “Strayan” Aussie people sound when they speak, you never know who might be listening.
White wipeout, Vegemite Kid ninth
SHAUN White crashed out, Aussie Kent Callister was ninth, while a Swiss claimed gold in a the men’s halfpipe final.
Topless pics cause Sochi stir
VIDEO: A LEBANESE skier at Sochi has sparked a furore after risque photos of her taken for a calendar resurfaced online.
Aussie star hits out at judges
AUSSIE snowboarder Scotty James has slammed judges for inconsistent marking after failing to make the halfpipe semis.
Segal so close in slopestyle final
AUSSIE Anna Segal fell agonisingly short of winning a medal in a ski slopestyle final marred by a horrific crash involving a Canadian skier.
Amazing skeleton helmets
SOCHI’S skeleton racers are bringing their fashion sense out of the closet with astonishing helmet designs. Here’s the best of the best.
The pipe’s fine, stop whingeing
THE Sochi halfpipe has at least one fan, and Canadian Crispin Lipscomb says Torah Bright’s camp should stop mouthing off.
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