View post: 8 Essential Pieces of Gear I Brought Backcountry Skiing in Georgia Long before the days of shredding pow or double backflips, skiing was used as a method of transportation. Dating back to 4000 BCE Norway, skiing was the most efficient way to ...

The Winter Olympics are a bit of an enigma to most sports fans in the United States. The average person has seen hockey, the understand figure skating, and we get enough extreme sports through osmosis that the snowboard half pipe makes sense — but a lot of the events are more Euro-centric.

What were once basic leather boots stitched onto hard rubber soles have now become sophisticated pieces of technology. The best cross country ski boots have undergone some impressive developments for skate and classic XC skiing. It can make choosing the ...

Inside Milan’s Olympic Village Everyone seemed to enjoy the show. Even having to wait on outlandishly long food and drink lines before the start couldn’t dampen the Olympic enthusiasm. “It’s a good time to bring people together,

The first medals of the 2026 Winter Olympics are being awarded Saturday in men's downhill skiing and women's cross-country Skiathlon.