Here is how the Biathlon works, including its rules, scoring and history in the Olympics.

A lot of these Olympic sports are terrifying

Here are five Olympic-style ways to help a kid recharge for a primary sport, or maybe discover a new one. You don't need a bobsled track or mountain.

Unlike in the Summer Olympics where Americans often dominate the podium, Team USA has lagged behind a bit in recent Winter Games. In 2022, Team USA finished fifth in the medal count with 25 total medals -- although their nine gold medals was good for third.

There's a new Olympic Sport in town, and it's kind of confusing. Here's everything you need to know to understand and enjoy Skimo properly.

Competitors ascend steep slopes with ‘skins’ on their skis, strap gear to their backpacks, and race downhill in a test of endurance and precision. Move over, figure skating and ice hockey: There’s a new Olympic sport taking to the slopes of Italy.

In Milan, the new sport is ski mountaineering, otherwise known as skimo. It's a combination of alpine climbing and backcountry skiing. Athletes ascend a mountain with either skis or on foot then descend down, where the fastest back wins gold.

The XXV Winter Olympics are taking place in Milan, and snowboarding will begin its events this weekend. In this archive Fresh Air interview from 1998, Jake Burton Carpenter — the founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the inventors of the modern snowboard — spoke to Terry Gross about the sport’s Olympic debut in Nagano that year,

Hello from the second full day of the winter Olympics, where we started with a stunning sequence of low and high moments during the women’s downhill final on the slopes of Cortina.