Olympics

The Jamaican bobsled team is back at the Winter Olympics, 34 years after the Caribbean nation’s four-man team became an international sensation at the 1988 Calgary Games. That unlikely story spawned a Disney movie, 1993’s “Cool Runnings,” and marked the start of four consecutive Olympic appearances for the four-man team piloted by Dudley Stokes, highlighted by an impressive 14th-place finish at the 1994 Lillehammer Games.

As the 2022 Winter Olympics wind to a close in Beijing, many athletes and fans already are looking forward to the next installment. While Beijing made history as the first city to host both the Winter and Summer Games, the 2026 Winter Olympics will also feature a return engagement of sorts.

Perhaps no other sport at the 2022 Winter Olympics features more incongruous components than the biathlon: one part cross-country skiing, one part rifle shooting. It’s an event that marries two seemingly divergent athletic skill sets: Cross-country skiing is a grueling aerobic exercise, while shooting requires patience, timing and tremendous accuracy.

Lindsey Jacobellis finally stood atop an Olympic podium. On Wednesday, Jacobellis earned the gold medal in the women’s snowboardcross, further cementing her legacy as the greatest snowboardcross athlete in history.

Kamila Valieva made history at the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Sunday night. During the final event of the team competition, the women’s free skate, the 15-year-old Russian became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in the Olympics.