The Super Bowl on Sunday night drew the best ratings in five years for the game, with an average of 112.3 million viewers across television and streaming, according to NBCUniversal, which aired the event. Viewers tuned in for a matchup that had the Los Angeles Rams narrowly prevailing in the final minutes in their home […]

Anna Gasser of Austria after her third run in the big air final on Tuesday.Credit…Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Su Yiming of China closed out the snowboarding competition in Beijing on Tuesday by winning men’s big air, taking a victory lap in the air after already securing the top spot on the podium before his final run. He […]

Putting a quiet end to a difficult Winter Olympics, Jamie Anderson of the United States failed to advance to the women’s big air snowboarding final on Monday, a disappointing finish after she earned a silver medal in the event’s debut at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Anderson, 31, fell during her first […]

ImageKamila Valieva training in Beijing on Sunday.Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times The Russian figure skating star at the center of doping questions at the Beijing Olympics will be allowed to compete in the women’s singles event after a ruling by a panel of arbitrators on Monday. The panel, in a statement, said it would be […]

Feb. 13, 2022, 1:01 p.m. ET Feb. 13, 2022, 1:01 p.m. ET Joe Burrow holding up a national championship trophy after winning a title with Louisiana State in the 2019 season.Credit…Sue Ogrocki/Associated Press A common refrain from Cincinnati Bengals players this week, including stars like Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, has been that this year’s […]

Mathieu Faivre of France in his giant slalom run on Sunday at the National Alpine Center in Yanqing.Credit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times For a week, the Winter Games took place successfully almost entirely on manufactured snow. It was the real stuff that caused the most problems. A snowstorm blanketed Beijing and the surrounding mountains on […]

Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner of the United States after winning the mixed snowboard cross on Saturday.Credit…Marco Bertorello/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Lindsey Jacobellis had gone 16 years in search of the Olympic gold medal that she squandered back in 2006, when she fell just before the finish line. Now she has two. The second […]

Valieva’s profile, and the looming Olympics, should only have increased that sense of urgency for Russia, he said. “If it’s a Wheaties box athlete like she is, you’re going to make sure everything is buttoned up before they go,” Tygart added. The controversy threatens to further undermine confidence in the global antidoping system, particularly when […]

Ty Schultz (77), whose Chinese name is Zheng Enlai, is among several naturalized players on the Chinese men’s hockey team. Jeremy Smith, the goalkeeper, has no Chinese ancestry but plays professionally in China.Credit…James Hill for The New York Times The descendants of some of the many Chinese people who emigrated to North America in the […]

Evans, 33, will be an alternate at these Games, which arrive eight years after she made her Olympic debut with a bronze medal in Sochi, Russia. That came two years after her first ride, a trip that remains vivid even now. Explore the Games A track star from Chicago’s South Side, Evans was a determined […]