Alpine skiing -- also known as downhill skiing -- is a race between skiers, the mountain and the clock. While the length of the course, number of turns and format...
Luge is one of three sliding sports at the Games (bobsled and skeleton are the others). It's similar to skeleton but feet first and on your back. Think high-speed, high-tech...
Snowboarding is a relatively new sport, invented in the 1960s and '70s. The sport quickly grew and was on the program for the inaugural X Games in 1997. A year...
Arguably the marque sport at the Winter Olympics, figure skating needs little introduction. With grace, grit and often controversy, athletes skate, jump and spin into millions of homes around the...
Hockey -- ice hockey, in Olympic parlance -- is an Olympic staple. The sport has been played at every Winter Olympic Games, and even one Summer Olympics (1920 in Antwerp,...
Skeleton is like luge, but head first. Athletes run and jump on their sled belly down, and then speed off down the track at 80 mph or more. To repeat:...
Freestyle skiing is a catchall category of sorts for the non-Alpine, non-Nordic skiing events. Each discipline has a different history and they were added to the Olympics at various times.