Rochette leads Skate Canada, delights home crowd
KITCHENER, Ontario (AP) -- Listening to her coach paid off for Joannie Rochette....

Stiegler done for season with broken bones in leg
VAIL, Colo. (AP) -- U.S. skier Resi Stiegler is out for the season after breaking two bones in her left leg in a crash during giant slalom training....

Germany and Canada win WC skeleton races
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) -- The home-ice advantage for the U.S. skeleton team vanished for the second straight week in World Cup competition and Canada and Germany took advantage in the snowless Adirondack Mountains....

Female ski jumpers hear reasons for case dismissal
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Vancouver Olympic organizers didn't violate women ski jumpers' rights because they had no power to include their event in the 2010 Winters Games....

Northug the man to beat as Olympic season starts
Petter Northug enters the Olympic season as the man to beat in cross-country skiing, and he isn't doing much to downplay expectations....

Get to know Lindsey and the Vonntourage
Lindsey Vonn and her husband, Thomas, were sitting on the couch watching "Entourage" when the idea popped into Thomas' head - the "Vonntourage." As the top female skier on the World Cup circuit the past two seasons, Vonn travels full time with two physical trainers provided by Red Bull, her ski technician, and her husband - a former U.S. Ski Team member and Olympian....

Tony Benshoof's back ailing again
Olympic luge slider Tony Benshoof's back is aching again, just as the international racing season is set to begin....

Olympic lodging plan off because of rough economy
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- An Olympic housing plan in which thousands of visitors would have stayed on cruise ships has been called off because of the rough economy....

Penguins captain Crosby runs with Olympic torch
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- Five months after lifting the Stanley Cup, Sidney Crosby carried the Olympic torch as thousands of people lined a downtown street....

Already a world champ, Hamlin eyes Olympic gold
For $5.89, anyone can taste how Erin Hamlin was immortalized. Vanilla ice cream, stacked with Reese's peanut butter cups, Oreos and hot fudge, topped with whipped cream and a cherry. In the sleepy village of Remsen, N.Y., pop. 514, that's how homage was paid to a local who stunned the luge world - the World Champion Erin Hamlin Sundae, a popular item at The Soda Fountain in town....