ARE, Sweden – Julia Mancuso is already an Olympic champion. She still hasn’t hit her prime, and her potential appeal stretches beyond a quadrennial sports event.Some think Mancuso has the personality ...

Yahoo Sports is making a big investment into Winter Olympics coverage. The outlet has hired three former U.S. Olympic stars ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – American Julia Mancuso has her ski boots back and seems to be peaking in time for the Turin Olympics.She finished second in a World Cup downhill Saturday, duplicating her ...

Using a modest slope in Minnesota as a springboard, he tutored a host of rising stars, including Lindsey Vonn. He was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. By Jeré Longman Mikaela ...

The trio of athletes also will provide content for the new Yahoo Sports Network FAST channel, which has distribution on all ...

Leave it to a skier from California to perfectly capture the spirit of the Sochi Winter Olympics. With the competition finished, Julia Mancuso decided to grab some waves. With the temperatures in ...

Things got hot in Sochi Monday — well, a lot warmer, at least. And that created soft, potentially dangerous conditions in the competitions on the slopes — not to mention on the highly criticized ...

WHISTLER, British Columbia – Julia Mancuso of Olympic Valley earned her second silver medal of the 2010 Winter Games on Thursday. Mancuso finished runner-up to Germany’s Maria Riesch in the ...

It’s the damn boots. Any amateur skier who has ever so much as snowplowed down the bunny hill knows that ill-fitting boots can make skiing miserable—no matter how good you are. Consider Julia Mancuso.

SOCHI, Russia -- The U.S. Alpine skiing team got off to a rousing Sochi start Thursday by winning two medals on the first day of downhill training. Oh wait, they don’t hand out medals for training ...

Mikaela Shiffrin grew up admiring Miller, a six-time Olympic medalist. She’ll need his resiliency and luck if she hopes to add to her own medal count. By Bill Pennington The American skier, a ...