Marit Bjoergen and Jason Lamy Chappuis continued to dominate the Nordic world championships, respectively winning their fourth and third gold medals on Saturday.

Norway claimed its sixth victory of the Nordic skiing world championships in the women's 4x5-kilometer cross-country relay on Thursday, while Eric Frenzel picked up Germany's first gold medal by winning the Nordic combined event.

Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates says current worldwide drug testing is “ineffective” and wants to shift the burden of proof on to athletes if they refuse to cooperate with doping investigations.

The Penbay International Circuit, located in Southern Taiwan's Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area, will officially begin operations in March.

The freckle-faced 7-year-old with fiery red hair was invited to test out the U.S. Open halfpipe nearly two decades ago before the professional snowboarders went to work.

World 100-meter freestyle champion James Magnussen — who led the much-vaunted 4x100m Australian relay team which bombed spectacularly at the 2012 Olympics — has claimed taking sleeping tablets was “a tradition.”

Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins gave the United States its first gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Nordic World Championships, winning the women's team sprint Sunday.

A 101-year-old Sikh believed to be the world's oldest distance runner retired Sunday after ending his last race in Hong Kong on a high, describing it as one of the “happiest days” of his long life.

Dario Cologna finally captured his first Nordic world championships title in the skiathlon, while Marit Bjoergen racked up her 10th to close in on the all-time record on Saturday.

Kenyan athletes dominated the Mizuno Kaohsiung International Marathon Sunday, with five runners from the East African country winning a total of NT$670,000 (US$22,600) in the race.