Joannie Rochette put heartbreak aside with a gutsy performance which gave her an Olympic bronze in women's figure skating, just four days after the death of her mother on Thursday. The 24-year-old from Quebec had already earned the praise of International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge for her heroic short programme just two days after her mother's Therese ...

It has prompted endless jokes at the Winter Olympics, but men just don't want to admit that they actually like figure skating. "It's not the sort of thing you'd say: 'hey guys come on over and watch the figure skating and we'll have a few beers'," said Vancouver resident Andre Sander, one of the few men ...