snowboard halfpipe competition at the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix on Jan.... Hirano, a silver medalist at

Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan performs during an exhibition gala at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, on Dec.... Some of the female riders will double up in the slopestyle event with medals also likely, while others will go large at Beijing's spectacular Big Air Shougang venue in pursuit of a Japanese snowboard first.... Hanyu is chasing his third straight Olympic men's gold medal, a feat that would put him equal with Sweden's Gillis Grafstroem, who did it in the 1920s, as the only other man to three-pe

A 17-year-old Scottish skier who is currently in Beijing to compete in the Winter Olympics has won a prestigious youth award. Kirsty Muir from Aberdeen has been crowned the eighth winner of the Scottish Youth Award for Excellence in Mountain Culture for her freestyle skiing. The award celebrates adventurous young people and the outdoor pursuits in which they excel. Muir has been noted for big air, a sport when skiers/ snowboarders slide down a high ramp that curls up at the end and shoot themsel

20. Canada-U.S. blockades disrupt the auto industry Several blockades at the Canada-U.S. border by truckers protesting Canadian vaccine mandates are forcing car companies to close production lines.... There is growing alarm that the protests in Canada are threatening the country’s economy and trade with the U.S., its biggest trading partner. The blockade at the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is especially disruptive.... Here are the latest updates. Context: The pr

We’re covering escalating tensions in Ukraine, arrests in the Canadian trucker protest and the fate of Afghan government funds. Fears of Russian invasion mount Diplomacy is stalling and U.S. officials believe an invasion could begin at any time.... A day earlier, Biden warned Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that invading Ukraine would have severe costs.... Russia continued to deny that it was planning to invade its neighbor, though its military buildup has showed no signs of slowing. Diplo

Many Winter Olympic sports have ancient origins, dating to times when humans invented new ways of getting around in the harsh, white wilderness.... Thousands of years ago in Northern Europe, people strapped animal bones to their feet to skate around on ice.... And the First Peoples in Canada used toboggans to transport goods. The sport called skeleton has no such hallowed origins in the practical transport of humans or goods, despite technically taking place on a sled....