Prepare for the Winter Olympics with a schedule of notable events taking place in the 16 months leading up to the 2026 ...

Jason Connolly/Agence France-Presse/Getty This sport was demonstrated in the 1928 Winter Olympics — the only year where it was featured in the Games. It involves competitors being pulled on skis ...

The 1928 winter games were the first held as its own entity. Sonja Henie, just 15, won a gold medal in women's figure skating, the most memorable moment in a week marked by unpredictable weather ...

TOKYO (AP) — Few paid much attention when Mikio Oda won Japan's first Olympic gold medal — and Asia's first individual gold medal — way back at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. There was no ...

Skijoring, in which a skiier is pulled by a horse or dog, appeared only once at the Winter Olympics in 1928. Today, it remains a popular sport in Europe and North America.

Although the 1924 Olympics included a week of winter-sport events that was retroactively labeled the first Winter Games, the first truly independent Winter Olympics were held in the Swiss town of St.