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'My heart broke into pieces': What it's like to fall at the Olympics
One of the reasons figure skating is so compelling is that one stumble can derail an athlete's dreams. How does it feel to fall on the sport's biggest stage? Meagan Duhamel and Kurt Browning open up a [...]
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Ski jumping at the Steinach Skiflyer centre in Thuringia: So this is what it feels like to join the lords of the flyers
Ski jumping is called the closest humans can get to flight and, as Jonathan Liew discovers for himself, throwing yourself down a mountain and soaring through the air is unique [...]
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What Olympic Skeleton is really like | Sochi 2014
Imagine sliding head first down an icy track at speeds of over 100km/h! That's what athletes like Australian Lucy Chaffer do for a living. Lucy is hoping to ... [...]
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10 Ways That Life is Like the Winter Olympics | Mamiverse
Athletes from around the world have come to Sochi, Russia for the XXII Olympic Winter Games, also known as the winter Olympics, to participate in 98 separate sporting events in 15 disciplines. The Rus [...]
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Train Like a Champion: Curling
Universal Sports’ Nick Gismondi caught up with Olympic curler Pete Fenson to learn the ins and outs of one of the most popular, but least understood, Winter Olympics sports…curling. [...]
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Train like a Champion: Luge
Nick Gismondi works out with 2009 Luge World Champ Erin Hamlin (USA) before he takes a shot down the track. [...]
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Train like an Olympian
How do Winter athletes train? Olympic aerial skier David Morris introduces the training regimes of Australian athletes across a range of Winter sports. All o... [...]
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