15. The Little Ring That Wouldn't
You can't plan for everything. Especially a motorized light up Olympic ring opening in sequence.
These things happen, Russia. Good effort.
You can't plan for everything. Especially a motorized light up Olympic ring opening in sequence.
These things happen, Russia. Good effort.
Her husband and kids asked her to come back out of retirement and compete in skeleton one more time.
So she did. And took silver.
After a tough race, the Russian speed skater went to open her uniform up to cool off.
And forgot she was completely nude underneath.
After a nasty fall in the cross country skiing event, it looked like Gafarov was out of the race; until a Canadian coach ran onto the course and helped Gafarov out.
Gafarov is not Canadian. He's Russian.
After a nasty fall, the American figure skater was asked if it was becoming common for him to come apart under pressure.
Abbott flipped out, saying he wanted to "give a middle finger and an F-U" to people who ask that. His profanity laced rant about figure skating continued on. Pure entertainment.
The 18 year old from Vail took a gold medal in the women's slalom, and became the youngest to do so.
We've only seen the tip of the iceberg with Shiffrin.
The US men went gold-silver-bronze and took the first medals ever in the new event.
The top of the mountain selfies, the quips, the messing with security -- anything we heard or saw from this snowboard gold medalist was just awesome.
The Great Britain women's curling team did okay. But everyone's eyes were focused on Anna Sloan -- who besides being adorable, had some of the best yelling faces of the games.
In what might be the ultimate class act in all of sports, the Japanese women's hockey team bowed to their opponents, fans, and officials after every game. Win or lose. Because respect.
To get to Sochi, the American snowboarder quit his job and for one year trained every day -- while living in his Toyota Tacoma in the parking lot of the ski park. He barely made it to Russia, financing his travel through online donations.
While he was disqualified during the parallel slalom for tracking a gate, his story is pure American determination.
Everyone was captivated by the American ice dancing champions who have been competing together since they were 10.
No. They are not dating.
Sure they lost the gold medal game to their rivals, but the game proved to be one of the most thrilling of the games.
The talk of the women's luge, her pre-race warm up consisted of dancing. Vigorously.
Seeing her pop and lock on the luge track after her final run is what American fun is all about.
In maybe one of the best hockey games of the last decade, who didn't hold their breath watching TJ Oshie in the shootouts?
