North Korean delegation returns home after Olympics outreach
North Korea’s delegation to the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics left South Korea on Tuesday after a visit where the former general suspected of masterminding deadly 2010 military attacks told Seoul officials the North is willing to talk with Washington.
Phil Rosenthal: Can NBC, up in Olympics ad money but down in viewers, still bank on Games?
And so it is over. The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics are officially done. NBC aired its taped highlights of the closing ceremony, and Johnny Weir appeared out of exclamation points.
Denver weighs Olympics bid years after withdrawing as host
It promised ample snow and sunny weather on a normally bare, rocky peak easily accessible by “super highway,” thousands more hotel rooms than existed and a cross-country ski course that looked good on paper but would have cut through some people’s backyards.
Winners and losers from the Pyeongchang Olympics
When I checked in at the media village before the Sochi Olympics four years ago, I was told it would be a minute. They were making the bed.
Oodles of oohs and ughs in the Pyeongchang Games
Wind, snow, ice or shine, the Winter Games had its share of golden moments that will forever be etched in Olympic lore.
Jessie Diggins hoists US colors at Olympics closing ceremony
One of the major concerns before the Pyeongchang Olympics was that the weather would be too cold for anyone to feel comfortable. Even by Minnesota standards, it was frigid, with windchills dropping to the double digits below zero in the small South Korean towns tucked between the mountains and the sea.
AP PHOTOS: Pyeongchang parties at Olympic closing ceremony
After 16 days of sliding, skating, jumping and sweeping, the Pyeongchang Games have come to a close with one last party.
Political end to Olympics: NKorea offers talks with US
The overtly political 2018 Winter Olympics closed Sunday night very much as they began, with humanity’s finest athletes marching exuberantly across the world stage as three nations with decades of war and suspicion among them shared a VIP box — and a potential path away from conflict.
Winter Olympics Most Medals-Career
Winter Olympics Most Medals-Career
Column: Americans over-promise, under-deliver in SKorea
They had their moments, without a doubt.
Russians win hockey gold with 4-3 OT win over Germany
The Olympic anthem was merely background noise, the doping scandal the farthest thing from their minds.
Dylan Hernandez: Shani Davis says goodbye to speedskating without saying a word
In the absence of a competitor taking a club to a knee or vandalizing a gas station bathroom, the scene Friday night at the Gangneung Oval marked the height of absurdity at these Olympics.
Mark Zeigler: The harsh reality: Team USA underperformed at these Olympics
Mark Zeigler: The harsh reality: Team USA underperformed at these Olympics
What went right, wrong for NBC at the Olympics
Counting up the medals, Pyeongchang was a lackluster Olympics for the U.S. team, and the post-mortems will soon begin about what went right and wrong.
Canada takes Olympic bronze after beating Czech Republic 6-4
The Canadians hugged each other and happily celebrated an Olympic hockey medal that isn’t the color they prefer.
American men win Olympic curling gold, beat Sweden 10-7
John Shuster’s last throw in the eighth end of the Olympic curling final clacked off one Swedish stone and knocked it into another, sending them both skittering out of scoring range.
Head of US Alpine team to AP: ‘Have to rebuild’ before 2022
U.S. Alpine director Patrick Riml began his trek back to Utah before the last ski race of the Olympics was done. He knows he has work to do after the country produced its fewest golds in the sport since 2002, fewest medals since 2006.
Olympic commercial glory: ‘Reminds me of Black Friday sales’
All Amber Batchelder wanted was a postcard.
Tough bobsled season for the US men coming to an end
The last official day of bobsled season is Sunday, and the American men probably can’t wait for the finale.
Heartbroken’ Kenworthy visits South Korean dog meat farm
Gus Kenworthy stood stone-faced, a shivering black puppy curled in his arms and more scurrying around him on the dirty, uneven cement floor. A few feet away, the pups’ mother barked and paced, eyeing the 2014 Olympic silver medalist while trying not to trip over the metal chain anchoring her to the wall. Nearly 90 other dogs in and around the cluttered, thin-walled structure also woofed and howled, a cacophony that could be heard from the nearby highway, even over the whoosh of traffic.