The Italian teenage sensation reveals how skiing and art allow her to express herself and how she deals with the pressure of expectation ahead of her home Winter Games.

Karen Cashman started skating at the Commonwealth Figure Skating Club of Randolph, Massachusetts, twice winning the New England Junior title in figure skating. She also ran varsity track at North ...

This piece is about the strength and power of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic ideals and values, and the Movement’s creativity in overcoming adversity, succeeding, and ultimately thriving. The ...

Chris Witty has competed at the top levels in both cycling and speed skating. Internationally she competed at the World Junior Championships in speed skating from 1991-94, with little success, placing ...

Sandra Bacher started college at the University of Washington, but then transferred to San José State, where she won the National Collegiate Judo Association Championship for four straight years, 1990 ...

Rick Colella graduated from the University of Washington and later competed for the Totem Lake SC. He won the 200m breaststroke at the 1971 Pan-Am Games and both the breaststroke events at the 1975 ...

Flatwater canoeist Erich Hanisch and his partner Willi Horn qualified for the K-2 over 1,000 metres for the 1936 Berlin Olympics as the German Champions, which they had won for the fifth year in a row ...

Rudolf Edinger had the following podium finishes at major championships: 1st in the 1923 World Championships Lightweight class (360.0 kg). He set two middleweight world records in the press in 1926 ...

Dorothy Dalton was from the Chicago Turnverein in 1948. She trained at night and worked during the days as a secretary with the Westinghouse Corp. She was never able to win an individual National ...

Clyde Scott of the University of Arkansas beat Bill Porter to take the 1948 NCAA 110m hurdles, but Porter won all their subsequent meetings that year, including the Olympic final. Scott graduated from ...

Anatoly Samotsvetov was one of the top Soviet hammer throwers in the late 1950s, but during his career, was overshadowed by Mikhail Krivonosov and Vasily Rudenkov. Samotsvetov won bronze at the 1956 ...

Colleen Mulvihill was coached by her father, Dick Mulvihill, one of the best known gymnastic coaches in the US in the 1960s. She attended Centennial High School in Illinois, graduating in 1970, and ...