Shaun White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar.

Actor Angelina Jolie, home improvement duo Chip and Joanna Gaines and Olympian Chloe Kim are among scores of people from politics, business, sports and entertainment who gathered at the White House for a black-tie dinner with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

She is an exceptional athlete who has already won gold and silver in the Beijing Olympics.

U.S.-born athletes have taken centerstage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality switching.

Across two pandemic Olympics set in Asian countries, Asian American woman fronting the Games have encountered a whiplashing duality — prized on the global stage for their medal-winning talent, buffeted by the escalating crisis of racist abuse at home.

Mental health was the breakout star at the Tokyo Olympics.

Mixed team snowboardcross is a variation on that chaotic event that is making its Olympic debut this year.

American snowboarder Chloe Kim turned in a strong opening run to easily defend her Olympic halfpipe title.

Lindsey Jacobellis is finally an Olympic gold medalist.

Nathan Chen has been building toward this for years.

Mikaela Shiffrin will have to rebound quickly.

China invited the world back — sort of — for the pandemic era’s second Olympics.

With the NFL on a break for a week until Super Bowl festivities begin, a lot of focus now can turn to the start of the latest Winter Olympics, which open Friday in Beijing.

Shaun White finished third at the Laax Open in Switzerland, marking his first podium finish since he won his third Olympic gold medal in 2018 and all but cementing his spot at next month’s games in Beijing.

Snowboarding superstar Shaun White's attempt to lock up a spot on a fifth Olympic team remains a work in progress.

The next big leap in snowboarding went down Sunday on a sun-splashed halfpipe in Colorado with a trick that set the stakes for the gold-medal race to Beijing.

Shaun White will have to wait at least one more week to get an inside track on a trip to his fifth Olympics after an eighth-place finish at the season’s first qualifying event.