Indigenous athletes are rare in the Winter Olympics, but for the select few like Ukaleq Slettemark and Abby Roque, their unique background is a point of strength.

Team USA was back on the podium in a big way after a rare day without medals, upping their 2022 Winter Olympics haul to 24 and surpassing their total from the 2018 Games.

Matt Hamilton stops by In the Village to admit he's the black sheep of his family, rave about custom sneakers, and tell us about his philanthropic long hair.

The two-time world champion, fifth in Sochi and fourth in PyeongChang, won nine of this season's 10 World Cup events in the leadup to the 2022 Games.

Here's how Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ended up with an open invitation to try curling with Matt Hamilton and Team USA.

Nick Goepper, Mac Forehand, and Colby Stevenson have survived their burning hot floor, stolen bicycles, and ferocious pin traders to join In The Village.

Americans Eric Loughran, Chris Lillis and Justin Schoenefeld all made it to the men's aerials finals.

No National Hockey League participation and a COVID-halted World Juniors have lent a mix of desperation and release to men's hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Day 10 was a banner one for Team USA, which collected four medals across three events at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The United States takes on the ROC in the men's team pursuit semifinals.

Grabbing a snowboard or ski while in the air seems like a basic move, but as Olympians descirbe on The Podium, this important move can be complex and costly.

The four-time X Games winner from Estonia went huge on her last run, hitting a 900 and two switch 1080s to advance to the final as the No. 1 qualifier.

Freeski slopestyle events were rescheduled after weather conditions caused a postponement to women's qualifying.

The second training session for the women's downhill race at the 2022 Winter Olympics was cancelled on Sunday due to snowfall, the International Ski Federation (FIS) said.

Trimetazidine, known as TMZ, is a drug used to treat angina and other heart-related conditions. Why is it banned in sports?

Newly-crowned king of figure skating Nathan Chen tells us about his performance and how he pigged out on KFC, Pizza Hut, and ice cream to celebrate gold.

The "Garlic Girls" faced a long road of adversity on their way back to the Winter Olympics.

The gold for the Americans in mixed team snowboard cross set social media ablaze.

Americans Lindsey Jacobellis and Nick Baumgartner, a respective 36 and 40 years old, are the oldest medalists in Olympic snowboarding history.

Tightened restrictions mean that few family and friends are at the Olympics, so athletes who have siblings also competing consider themselves lucky.

Deedra Irwin and Elizabeth Beisel also discuss social media and Wisconsin beer, as well as her best-ever finish for Team USA in the women's biathlon 15km individual.

Nils van der Poel set the world record in the men's 10,000m speed skating race, becoming the first Swedish skater to win gold since 1988.

The weight factor is one of the most important aspects of Olympic sports like skeleton, luge and bobsled. On The Podium, athletes discuss strategies of using weight to their advantage.

Curlers must navigate the tricky pros and cons of wearing microphone while they compete on the world's biggest stage.

Chris Lillis landed a quintuple-twisting triple to help earn the U.S. a surprising victory over host nation China in the event's Olympic debut.

How important is music to competition? Three current Olympians join The Podium to discuss how the desire to win medals starts with the need for a proper soundtrack.

Lindsey Jacobellis is the oldest snowboarding medalist in history and Team USA sits in the 2022 Winter Olympics' top 10 for medals with seven.

Defending gold medalist Shaun White scored an 86.25 to place fourth in qualifying and make it into the final.

All four Americans, including Lindsey Jacobellis, sit in good position heading into the knockout rounds of women's snowboard cross.

Reigning X Games champion Alex Hall and two other Americans are poised to contend for the first Olympic medals in men's freeski big air.

National history was joined by family history among Team USA's medal winners on Day 4 at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

U.S. snowboarders Chloe Kim and Shaun White, the defending Olympic halfpipe gold medalists, compete Tuesday night Eastern Time in qualifying.

The Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka defended her gold medal in parallel giant slalom snowboarding with a big-final victory over Daniela Ulbing of Austria.

San Francisco native Eileen Gu came up clutch, throwing down a trick she'd never even tried in training to defeat reigning X Games champion Tess Ledeux.

Team Canada's slopestyle medal winners are scrappers of the highest order, their triumphs coming after nadirs that would stop many in their tracks.

Mikaela Shiffrin may have crashed out of her first event, but the American skier has a full slate of events ahead at the Olympics.

Norway's Birk Ruud recorded the top two runs of the competition, while the Americans placed second, fifth, eighth and 22nd.

After beating cancer following his 2018 slopestyle silver in PyeongChang, Canada's Max Parrot is now an Olympic gold medalist.

Canada's Megan Oldham, winner of two medals at last month's X Games, advanced to Tuesday's final as the No. 1 qualifier, as did Tess Ledeux and Eileen Gu.

After getting eliminated from reaching the semifinals in the penultimate session of play, Team USA finished their 2022 mixed doubles curling Olympics with a game against Great Britain.

He won 2018 Olympic slopestyle gold at age 17. Now Red Gerard's back to defend his title, and could be challenged by his own teammate Sean FitzSimons.

Defending gold medalist Perrine Laffont and Australia's Jakara Anthony are set to clash, while Team USA could very well have a podium finisher.

On this episode of The Podium, Dirk Scheumann -- the man who designed the slopestyle course at the Winter Olympics -- describes his process.

Su Yiming of China posted the best score with an 86.80, while Americans Sean Fitzsimons and Red Gerard placed third and fifth, all securing top-12 spots.

The mountains of Zhangjiakou have seen temperatures lower than the FIS competition limit of -20 degrees Celsius in the run-up to the Games.

Julia Marino claimed the first medal for the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics, throwing down the run of her life in the slopestyle final.

Follow along for live updates from the men's downhill event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

American Julia Marino claimed silver, Team USA's first medal of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

The 49-year-old Pechstein also carried Germany's flag at Friday's opening ceremony.

Who is warding off or leaping past traditional time considerations in Beijing? Team USA's oldest and youngest competitors plus highlights from other teams.

Walter Wallberg is the first Swedish gold medalist in Olympic freestyle skiing history, and the nation's first male freestyle skier to win a medal of any color.

White, competing at his fifth Olympics, had already said 2022 would be his last appearance on the Games stage.

After the United State was disqualified in the semifinal, China won its first-ever Olympic gold medal in the short track mixed team relay competition, barely edging out Italy.

The two-time defending Olympic snowboard slopestyle gold medalist qualified for the final along with fellow Americans Julia Marino and Hailey Langland.

Two Malaysian athletes qualified for alpine skiing events as the country makes its second consecutive appearance at the Winter Olympics.

Tim Dieck as the Joker, alongside Katharina Mueller as Harley Quinn, ambushed Capital Indoor Stadium with a chaotic rhythm dance that would make Commissioner Gordon do the twizzles.

The Olympic speed skaters are getting used to the oval as the icemakers work to create the perfect conditions.

U.S. short track speed skater Kristen Santos determined to keep breakout season going at her first Winter Olympics.

Americans Jaelin Kauf, Olivia Giaccio and Hannah Soar placed a respective third, fourth and seventh in qualifying one of women's moguls, moving straight to the finals; Jakara Anthony and Perrine Laffont topped the round.

American mogul skiers Jaelin Kauf and Olivia Giaccio will enter the women's finals Sunday as top-four qualifiers.

The men's downhill field took their first training runs on the Olympic competition course, which had never before been utilized in Alpine skiing competition. It left many Olympians looking out of sorts.

The 17-year-old U.S. mogul skier, competing in her birth country, was set to compete in qualifying on Thursday.

The beds also have a "zero gravity" feature, according to a video posted on TikTok by American luger Summer Britcher.

The Chinese city of Xi’an has gradually begun lifting restrictions after over three weeks of lockdown as authorities sought to stamp out a local outbreak before the Beijing Winter Olympic Games are due to start.

Ryan Pivirotto, 26, hopes to make his Olympic debut in Beijing after serving in the 2018 Olympics as an alternate.

As he did in 2018, John Shuster led his team to two straight finals wins to clinch an Olympic berth at U.S. Olympic Curling Trials.

While there are countdowns in effect until the holiday season and the start of 2022, Wednesday represented an important mile marker in another notable countdown.

China's capital Beijing has begun offering booster shots against COVID-19, four months before the city and surrounding regions are to host the Winter Olympics.

Learn more about the venue for Nordic combined at the Beijing Olympics.