The Olympics are great for raising the profile of the host country. And they’re also great for being from another nation and watching the host country completely mess up the games. After an unseasonably warm winter in Sochi, where the winter games will be held next year, the Russian government has ordered that 500k cubic [ more... ]

The new bid to make climbing one of the Olympic sports in the 2020 Games will call for competitors to master three events: bouldering, sport, and speed. This new direction is reportedly coming from feedback from the International Olympic Committee, but climbing will still have a long road to the games as six other sports [ more... ]

If we work really hard, I bet we can blame this one on Lance Armstrong. In Wausau, Wisconsin elite ice fishermen spent a week wandering a frozen lake preparing for a fishing contest. When the start gun went off (I’m assuming they use guns), teams from around the world scrambled to haul in as many [ more... ]

After a brutal super-G crash in Schladming, Austria, Lindsey Vonn has undergone surgery for her ACL and MCL. She posted an Instagram photo of the post-surgery knee to Facebook and it looks pretty much like you’d image a gruesome post-surgery photo to look. Eesh, not for the type that can’t handle gore. Also, her mom [ more... ]

The Olympics is really struggling with that 20- to 30-year-old demographic. What better way to attract some new viewers to NBC (who’s paying over $1 billion for the TV rights) than eliminating some boring mid-morning sport no one watches and replacing it something radical!? Welcome to the Olympics, rock climbing. Or maybe softball, karate, or [ more... ]

Yep, Lindsey Vonn blew out her knee. Done for the season. But the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Association is working hard on making the 2014 Sochi Olympics not about anyone named Lindsey or Bode, but about making certain that there’s a solid team in every single discipline. For a change, they’re also putting money into [ more... ]

While skiing in a super-G comp in Schladming, Austria, Lindsey Vonn suffered a devastating knee injury. She was helicoptered off the course and it was later announced that she’d torn her ACL and MCL and would undergo surgery. She says she’ll be back and competing before the 2014 Olympics. A typical ACL injury may take six months to heal after surgery, though there’s wide variance. Considering her fitness levels and access to topflight healthcare and rehab, we’ll hope to see her back in form in 2013.

Emissaries of the International Federation of Sport Climbing headed to Switzerland to make their appeal to be added to the Summer Games beginning in 2020. They’re competing for a spot with baseball/softball, karate, roller sports, squash, wakeboaring, and wushu. If accepted, the IOC would have to decide on a sport to cut from the Games. [ more... ]

Good news Olympic fans, we just won another gold medal. Yesterday four athletes from Eastern Europe lost their medals from the 2004 games following positive steroid tests on their bio samples. The Olympics can freeze samples and test them up to eight years later-they almost made it! (No word on how Armstrong’s tests have shaken [ more... ]

In May, the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) seemed to be dumping its old wrinkled spouse for a trophy partner when it punted windsurfing out of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil and dropped in kiteboarding. “Kiteboarding has proven to us that it is…a fantastic addition to the sailing program for the 2016 Olympic Games,” ISAF’s President [ more... ]