The team combined event in alpine skiing is a thrilling watch featuring national teams made up of two skiers (one in the downhill and one in slalom) working together for the best combined times of each pairing.

All the attention in Cortina's curling stadium seems trained on Italy's first curling gold medalist, defending mixed doubles champion Stefania Constantini while she battles to advance in the competition.

A rousing Opening Ceremony that included everything from dancing musical notes to massive paint tubes to massive flying Olympic rings to Mariah Carey ended with a dramatic reveal as Italian legends Sofia Goggia, Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni lit the two torches that will burn for the length of the Winter Olympics.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The desperation played on the faces of Canadian curling couple Brett Gallant and Jocelyn Peterman on Saturday as they watched Great Britain's Bruce Mouat and Jennifer Dodds send red stones pummeling into their carefully set yellows.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olimpia della Tofane piste wrecked Breezy Johnson's Olympic downhill hopes four years ago but made amends on Sunday, even if the gold medal came apart minutes after being hung round her neck.

Italy launched the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday with a slick and colorful ceremony that celebrated the country’s history, arts and fashion but where global political tensions surfaced in the crowd reaction.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — An Israeli bobsled pilot says the apartment that he and some fellow Olympians have been using while finishing their training for the Milan Cortina Winter Games was robbed Saturday,

She opened with a fourth-place first run, ending the day with a combined time of 1:45.796 to sit fifth overall.