the Winter Games

The embattled CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee resigned Wednesday, citing health problems, as the organization announced new initiatives to protect athletes from abuse. Scott Blackmun, who has headed the committee since 2010, has been under fire for weeks in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. He did not attend the Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea,...

Tucker Murphy is skiing for Bermuda in the 2018 Winter Olympics, but he says that wouldn’t have happened without the time he spent training in New Hampshire and Vermont.

An athlete from a warm-weather nation is thanking New England for being a key part of his journey to the Winter Olympics.

Sabrina Wanjiku Simader finished 38th out of 44 in the women’s super-G in the Pyeongchang Games but the 19-year-old made the record books — as the first Alpine skier from Kenya to compete in a Winter Games. Simader follows Philip Boit, a cross-country skier who debuted at the 1998 Games in Nagano and who until now was the only Kenyan...

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir’s broadcast booth fashions and fiery figure skating commentary has delighted Olympic viewers with their larger-than-life personalities. And when the last figure skating event of the Pyeonchang Games ends on Friday (Thursday night in the U.S), fans won’t have to say goodbye to the duo, or their no-holds-barred approach to commentating, just yet.

Within hours of curler Alexander Krushelnitsky being stripped of a bronze medal for a doping violation, the Russian Olympic Committee said it had paid a $15 million fee that was part of the criteria to have its team reinstated at the Pyeongchang Games.

Within hours of curler Alexander Krushelnitsky being stripped of a bronze medal for a doping violation, the Russian Olympic Committee said it had paid a $15 million fee that was part of the criteria to have its team reinstated at the Pyeongchang Games.

Two U.S. women won gold in the team cross-country ski sprint race. One of them, Jessie Diggins, trains right here in New England.

Yevgenia Medvedeva is going for gold on Thursday. She’ll get the chance to rock out to her favorite band in person a few nights later.

Maia and Alex Shibutani, also known as the “Shib Sibs,” have been ice dancing together since 2004. They entered Pyeongchang the most decorated of the three American ice dance teams competing. On Monday, they added to their titles, taking home the bronze medal after performing their free dance to Coldplay. Sochi was a turning point for the ice dance duo….

It was expected to be a coronation: snowboarder Shaun White, shredding the halfpipe in an epic performance that won him Olympic gold at Pyeongchang four years after a devastating loss in Sochi and just four months after a nasty fall during practice sent him to a hospital. But as he basked in the comeback story of the Winter Games, allegations...

The king is not dead, he’s just testing skis and being the best cheerleader he can be for his wife.

Japanese speed skater Nao Kodaira breaks an Olympic record, Alpine skier Marcel Hirscher continues to dominate and Norway is on top in the medal count. Here is the Pyeongchang Games by the numbers

Two Swiss Olympic athletes have contracted norovirus in recent days at the Pyeongchang Games. More than 200 people have been confirmed to have contracted the norovirus at the Winter Games. While most of them are security staff and personnel, the Swiss athletes are reportedly the first at these Olympics to be affected by the contagious virus. The Swiss team said...

A Jamaican beer company has picked up the tab for the country’s Olympic bobsledders. After driving coach Sandra Kiriasis left the women’s bobsled team just days before competition begins and reportedly threatened to take the bobsled with her, the team’s chance at an Olympic podium was cast in doubt. That’s when Red Stripe, the Jamaican beer brand, offered to help...

From Copley Square to Mattapan Square, there are still some people who know very little about PyeongChang, South Korea.

Jamaica’s bobsled driving coach, Sandra Kiriasis, has left the team just days before competition begins in Pyeongchang.

Prince Henrik, the French-born husband of Danish monarch Queen Margrethe who publicly vented his frustration at not being the social equal of his wife or their son in line to become Denmark’s king, died late Tuesday. He was 83. He was diagnosed with dementia last year and his health has worsened recently. Henrik had been transferred earlier in the day...

Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot were flawless as the rest of the top contenders fell, and their free skate was enough to give the German pair Olympic gold. Savchenko and Massot scored 159.31 points in their program set to music by Armand Amar on the final day of pairs skating at the Pyeongchang Games. That gave them 235.90 points, catapulting...

Tongan flag bearer Pita Taufatofua has more on his mind than just trying to compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics this week. The 34-year-old cross-country skier is concerned about his homeland after it was hit by a cyclone that destroyed Parliament House as well as churches and homes. “Thank you for all the kind messages of support,” Taufatofua said on his...