A 16-year-old girl from Oakland would love to join the list of Olympic-caliber figure skaters from the Bay Area.

When Yaroslava Mahuchikh emerges for her season opener on Thursday she will embark on another four-year Olympic cycle, with a ...

Thelma Hopkins, the 1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist and 1954 European and Empire Games champion, died on January 10 aged 88. Born in Kingston Upon Hull, she moved to Belfast in Northern ...

When Lake Placid hosted the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, it would still be another 30 years before women were offered the opportunity to compete in ski jumping at the highest international level. This ...

was the golden girl of British athletics in the 1950s; she broke the world high jump record, took a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympics, and won titles and broke records in the long jump ...

Women have been playing catch up in the sport for more than a century. Olympic ski jumping included only men from the first Winter Games in 1924 in France through the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Mihambo was third with her only valid jump under the previous system of 6.39. Like Mihambo, her coach, Uli Knapp, was also in favor of the new rule. Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo of Germany ...