PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- One of the major concerns before the Pyeongchang Olympics was that the weather would be too cold for anyone to feel comfortable. Even by Minnesota standards, it was frigid, with windchills dropping to the double digits below zero in the small South Korean towns tucked between the mountains and the sea.

The weather, ...Read more

GANGNEUNG, South Korea -- For John Shuster, it wasn't about the feel of the ribbon around his neck, or the surprising heft of the gold disc that lay on his chest. He had received an Olympic medal before, a bronze in 2006 as part of Pete Fenson's team at the Turin Winter Games.

Shuster never forgot how it felt that night in Italy, standing on an...Read more

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- There wasn't any surprise this time.

Ester Ledecka completed one of the most unlikely feats in Olympic history by pumping her right fist in the air after she sped across the finish line for the snowboard parallel giant slalom at the Phoenix Snow Park. She hugged second-place Selina Joerg, then dropped to her knees as...Read more

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- The bloody patch on Max Parrot's chin pretty much said it all.

On a day when some of the world's best snowboarders pushed each other to go for broke, the inaugural men's big air contest at the 2018 Winter Olympics turned into a game of survival.

One after another, pre-contest favorites -- including Parrot -- fell ...Read more

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It was a scene played out in packed arenas throughout the United States. Nikolai Volkoff, said to be a professional wrestler from Russia, would have the ring announcer ask everyone to stand as he sang the Russian ...Read more

When she arrived for the Winter Olympics in South Korea, Chloe Kim already was an accomplished snowboarder with endorsement deals from the likes of Visa, Nike and Toyota.

Then came her dominating performance to win the gold medal in the women's snowboarding halfpipe in Pyeongchang, and the charismatic 17-year-old Southern Californian instantly ...Read more

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- This has been a good week for Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins.

On Wednesday night, they became the first U.S. women to earn a medal in cross-country skiing, winning the team sprint free. The next day, Randall was elected as an athlete representative on the International Olympic Committee.

Friday, it was Diggins' ...Read more

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Vermont author Peggy Shinn had been more than a little anxious as the U.S. women's cross-country ski team kept coming close but failing to earn its historic first Olympic medal at the Pyeongchang Games.

When Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins finally did it Wednesday night in the team sprint, it came with an ...Read more

All times Eastern

SATURDAY, FEB. 24

NBC

3 p.m.-6 p.m.

Speed Skating -- Men's and Women's Mass Start Gold Medal Finals

Men's Cross Country -- 50km Gold Medal Final

8 p.m.-11 p.m.

Figure Skating Gala (LIVE)

Four Man Bobsled -- Gold Medal Final Runs (LIVE)

11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Primetime Plus Coverage

12:30 a.m.-3:30 a.m.

Primetime ...Read more

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Jessie Diggins got a poster of Olympic cross-country skier Bill Koch when she was a kid and hung it above her bed.

Koch won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics, and Diggins idolized him. His poster still hangs in her bedroom at her parents' Afton, Minn., home.

Koch was the only American -- man or woman -- to own an ...Read more

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- As the clock ticked past midnight and into the early morning hours Friday, Matt Hamilton and the rest of the U.S. men's curling team had big plans.

"I think it's healthy to celebrate a little bit," Hamilton said. "I might go back to the 1/8athletes3/8 village and have a McFlurry."

The Americans had reason to party -...Read more