What Sven Kramer wants, Sven Kramer gets. What the Dutch speedskater wants is an Olympic gold medal. "It is the only thing I don't have yet, and I will do my utmost to get it," he said. The last time he really felt ...

U.S. and international Olympic leaders opened discussions Monday in a bid to improve relations and settle the financial issues that have isolated the Americans from the rest of the Olympic movement. Scott Blackmun, the U.S. Olympic Committee's new chief executive officer, and USOC chairman Larry ...

Noelle Pikus-Pace gasped as she glanced around the hotel ballroom to see the mountains of boxes piled around and overflowing with red-white-and-blue U.S. Olympic gear. "This is amazing," the skeleton racer said Monday, when she joined dozens of teammates in suburban Vancouver for team processing ...