Bode Miller, still unhappy with a team U.S. rule about where he has to sleep, finishes second in a giant slalom on Sunday to Kalle Palander.

With or without a good night’s sleep, Bode Miller still is winning ski races.

France’s Brian Joubert and South Korea’s Kim Yu Na win the men’s and women’s Grand Prix figure skating final Saturday in St. Petersburg.

The first thing you notice about Sally Conway is that she does not have a Scottish accent, even though the air is thickly redolent with Caledonian brogue as she goes about her work in a tiny church hall in the Edinburgh suburb of Leith. The second is that this delightful slip of a girl does not look capable of throwing her own weight around, let alone anyone else’s.

The story surrounding star sprinter Justin Gatlin’s positive drug test features allegations that a vindictive massage therapist rubbed steroids on him, certainty from those that know him that he is innocent and a coach that is at the center of the BALCO scandal.

The first thing you notice about Sally Conway is that she does not have a Scottish accent, even though the air is thickly redolent with Caledonian brogue as she goes about her work in a tiny church hall in the Edinburgh suburb of Leith. The second is that this delightful slip of a girl does not look capable of throwing her own weight around, let alone anyone else’s.

With trainer Zeke Thompson showing him the way, Maryland’s Luke Runion hopes to make his dreams of making the 2008 U.S. Olympic team come true.

Olympic silver medalist Ivica Kostelic wins super-combi for his first World Cup victory in three years while Bode Miller again crashes out of a race.

With the U.S. Figure Skating championships less than two months away, 2006 champion Sasha Cohen has yet to decide if she’ll attempt to defend her title.

American World Cup Women’s bobsleders Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming win for the second straight week, setting a track record at Utah Olympic Park on Friday.

Daisuke Takahashi hits a quad and eight triples to win the men’s event and pace another Japanese sweep of the figure skating medals in the NHK Trophy in Nagano, Japan.

American Lindsey Kildow wins a World Cup downhill Saturday by a whopping 1.33 seconds over Austria’s Renate Goetschl.

It is one of the great, resonant Olympic images. A young man is helped from a swimming pool, blood pouring down his cheek and body. His wound, created by a Russian fist, stands also for the grievous wounds freshly inflicted by the Soviet Union upon his mother country, Hungary. Just four weeks after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising was crushed by 200,000 Soviet troops - leaving more than 5,000 dead and causing nearly a quarter of a million people to flee - water polo teams from the two countries met at the Melbourne Olympics for what turned out to be one of the most violent, politically charged encounters in Games history.

It is one of the great, resonant Olympic images. A young man is helped from a swimming pool, blood pouring down his cheek and body. His wound, created by a Russian fist, stands also for the grievous wounds freshly inflicted by the Soviet Union upon his mother country, Hungary. Just four weeks after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising was crushed by 200,000 Soviet troops - leaving more than 5,000 dead and causing nearly a quarter of a million people to flee - water polo teams from the two countries met at the Melbourne Olympics for what turned out to be one of the most violent, politically charged encounters in Games history.