Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu gave a virtuoso display to set a new world record score of 101.45 for the short programme in the men’s figure skating at the Iceberg Skating Palace. Skating to «Parisian Walkways» by Gary Moore the 19-year old served up a quad toeloop, triple axel and triple lutz-triple toeloop combination, in a routine […]readmore

Evgeni Plushenko, the Russian figure skating star, retired on Thursday from the men’s singles competition, citing medical reasons . After winning gold in the team competition on the weekend, Plushenko suffered a fall trying to do the triple axel jump in a warm up for the short program and immediately grabbed his back . He […]readmore

Sharp-shooting French biathlete Martin Fourcade won his second gold medal of Sochi 2014 with a stylish victory in in the men’s individual 20km event. Having already triumphed in the pursuit, Fourcade, the reigning world champion in the 20km, became the first French athlete to win two golds at a single Winter Games since Jean-Claude Killy at […]readmore

Day seven kicks off at Rosa Khutor with the men’s super combined. From there it’s on to the Laura Cross-Country Ski & Biathlon Centre for cross-country skiing and the men’s 15km classic, to be followed by the women’s 15km individual biathlon event. The spotlight then falls on the Sanki Sliding Centre, where the medals will […]readmore

Hot favourite, Lizzy Yarnold of Great Britain kept her pursuit of Olympic gold on track as the women’s skeleton reached the halfway point at the Sanki Sliding Centre. The 2013-2014 World Cup winner clocked a combined time from her two runs of 1 minute 56.89 seconds to give her a 0.44 second lead over 2007 […]readmore

In a wonderful example of the Olympic spirit in action, the Russian cross-country and biathlon team intervened to offer a vital helping hand to their German counterparts, with a gesture that placed sportsmanship firmly above individual interests. On the eve of Sochi 2014, the German biathlon and cross-country team’s technicians discovered, to their horror, that the grinding machine […]readmore

There was high drama in the women’s downhill as Swiss outsider Dominique Gisin and Slovenia’s Tina Maze each clocked 1 minute 41.57 seconds for a dead heat at the top of the leaderboard, meaning that an Alpine skiing gold medal was shared for the first time in Winter Olympics history. Gisin, wearing bib number eight, […]readmore

Fans in Sochi for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games have also been enjoying an array of artistic performances and events as part of the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad. Over the last four years, approximately three million people have attended the more than 5,000 events – including concerts, theatre performances, exhibitions and festivals – that have […]readmore

World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov claimed a second gold for themselves and the Olympic hosts on Wednesday night as they led a Russian one-two in the pairs figure skating. Already team gold medallists, Volosozhar and Trankov led all the way to seal the title ahead of team-mates Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, with […]readmore