Gold medalists Stephan Embacher and Jan Hoerl, of Austria, celebrate on the podium, with silver medalists Pawel Wasek and Kacper Tomasiak, of Poland, and bronze medalists Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and...

American ski star Ben Loomis was lucky to avoid serious injury at the Winter Olympics on Thursday after a staffer accidentally left his leaf blower in the way of his jump.

Each race lasted only about three minutes but, in that time, competitors would ascend and descend some 70 metres in altitude, beginning with a near-vertical uphill cross-country ski before discarding ...