Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen turned in a powerful final run to win the Olympic giant slalom Saturday and earn South America’s first medal at a Winter Games.

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen gave Brazil their first-ever medal in a Winter Olympics on Saturday, Feb. 14 when he won gold in the men's giant slalom

Braathen completed the two descents in 2 minutes and 25 seconds (1'13"92 in the first and 1'11"08 in the second), 58 hundredths ahead of Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, considered the favourite to win t...

Olympic gold medals may carry immense symbolic value for athletes, but their actual material composition is far more modest than the name suggests. Modern medals follow strict International Olympic Committee rules,

Following Team USA’s dominant preliminary run -- capped by a historic 5-0 shutout of rival Canada -- the Americans continued their march toward gold with a clinical 6-0 victory over host nation Italy ...