WORLD champion speed-skater Tatiana Borodulina is determined to win Olympic gold for Australia, even if it means facing the Taliban.

Beware Olympic planners. El Nino lurks. Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday the weather phenomenon is building in the Pacific Ocean.

Former world skeleton champion Noelle Pikus-Pace has a stress fracture in her right leg, the same limb that was shattered by a runaway bobsled and derailed her quest to compete in the 2006 Turin Olympics.

A group of women are appealing a court decision that prevents them from competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics, says a spokesman for the group.

Brian Martin remembers everything about the day he found his calling. He was 13, there was a hilly section of California roadway just off Highway 280, someone put him on a luge sled for the first time and the wheels immediately went into motion.

New Delhi, Jul 11 : The Olympic Council of Asia has decided to trim the number of disciplines for the Asian Games to 35.

Juri Takayama hopes to trade her fastball for the fast track of bobsled and become the fifth Japanese athlete to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Think Olympic bobsledding, and Lake Placid, N.Y., or the mountains of Italy, Switzerland and Austria might come to mind.

Co - hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics is expected to be a boom for businesses in the resort town of Whistler, but not everyone will benefit during the event.

Those attending Billy Barker Days in Quesnel this year will get an opportunity to experience what it might feel like to compete in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games along with a chance to win gold medal event tickets, as the BCLC 2010 Winter Games Dome comes to town July 17 - " 19.