Canada collected its second consecutive Winter Games title in women’s team pursuit when Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann — the same athletes who won gold four years ago in Beijing — finished in 2:55.81, nearly a full second ahead of runner-up Netherlands.

Enter the “Blade Angels,” the American trio of Glenn, Liu and Levito. They are aiming to put an American on the podium for the first time since 2006, when Sasha Cohen won silver. If one of them wins gold, it’ll be the first for the Americans since Sarah Hughes won in 2002 in Salt Lake City.

The depth of this year's U.S. women's figure skating team is one of the reasons the Americans could dominate the podium at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

(AP) Oscar Pistorius set precedent with his journey to and through the London Games. When he leaves, he can add one more accomplishment: He was a finalist. A double-amputee now known globally as the “Blade Runner” because he runs on carbon-fiber blades ...

Oscar Pistorius is a former South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter. He was once known across the world as the inspirational “Blade Runner”. Pistorius became famous for competing at the highest level despite being a double amputee.

Oscar Pistorius, 25, South African double amputee and Paralympics champion, has waged a long and often unpleasant battle to be able to compete against able-bodied runners in the Olympics, but all of the hard work has paid off. ‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius ...

Ami Nakai and Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto upstaged Alysa Liu and the rest of the “Blade Angels” from the U.S. to take the lead after the short program in the women’s

In the hour before Alysa Liu would become the first American woman in nearly a quarter of a century to win an individual Olympic figure skating gold medal, she skipped around the warmup area deep below the Milano Ice Skating Arena taking selfies.