VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Organizers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which ended on Sunday, are confident of avoiding a budget deficit when the final bills are paid. "We think we're sitting in a pretty good spot and will have a balanced budget when we're done," Dave Cobb, executive vice president of the Vancouver Organizing Committee, said before the ...

Fireworks will light the sky above this mountain village on Sunday night in a bright noisy finale to a winter games organisers say boosted the Paralympics to a new level. The games in Vancouver and Whistler showcased "fantastic competition at a very high level in all sports," said Xavier Gonzalez, CEO of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) -- and also drew ...

TBILISI (Reuters) - A Muslim diaspora is demanding the Sochi 2014 Olympics be canceled or moved unless Russia apologizes for the 19th century deaths of many of their ancestors in the location where the Winter Games will be held. The Circassian diaspora, Muslim indigenous people from the northwest Caucasus now scattered across the globe, join a swelling list of opponents to ...

U.S. Ski Team chief Bill Marolt issued an apology Saturday after being arrested days earlier on suspicion of driving under the influence not far from the team's headquarters in Park City. In a brief statement, Marolt apologized for his Wednesday night arrest, which came just days ...