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A Chinese speed skater has been banned from national competition for a year after he gave a "one-fingered salute" to spectators who had jeered him, according to state press.

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Trade will show what JT is made of : Can John Tavares play through the distraction of a trade? Questions the final might answer : The WJC winds down tonight.

A guy who dangled upside down from a ski lift with his bare bottom exposed probably doesn't want to hear any "ski bum" jokes.

Jean-Baptiste Grange of France led the men's World Cup night slalom Tuesday after the opening leg, and Bode Miller was disqualified because the size of his ski boots did not meet FIS rules.

Canada continues to raise the bar at the world junior hockey championship. A record-setting tournament ended in golden fashion on Monday night as Canada beat Sweden 5-1 to capture the event for a fifth straight ...

Team Canada's P K Subban acknowledges the crowd after winning the gold medal final against Team Sweden at the world junior hockey championship in Ottawa.

Jarome Iginla dons the Red & White for Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- The familiar Hockey Canada logo of a player skating through a Maple Leaf is not likely to be worn at the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...

A Racine County couple and a pair of college students from Minnesota are among seven people killed in Wisconsin snowmobile accidents so far in 2009.

Early morning freezing rain has made for a treacherous commute. Today's pre-dawn rain coated cars in the commonwealth with a glaze of ice and left some side roads slicker than skating rinks.

Boris Said is no longer king of the mountain. Todd Bodine and Morgan Lucas have taken his place.

Canada's chances of winning a fifth gold medal at the world junior hockey championship Monday are less if the team continues its trend of giving up four or five goals each game.

Napier and brakeman Cory Butner of Yucaipa, Calif., won in three minutes, 45.87 seconds in the four-heat race.

United States' Colin Wilson, left, watches as Czech Republic goalie Dominik Furch fails to make a save on a shot by James van Riemsdyk.

As family, friends and teammates grieve the death of a 21-year-old Ontario hockey player who died three weeks after hitting his unprotected head on the ice during a fight, debate over events leading to his ...

Thousands of people gathered in grief Sunday in the tiny mining town of Sparwood, B.C., to bid a final farewell to eight local snowmobilers who were doing what they loved when they died last weekend in a tragic ...

Larry Gunselman stared at the timing board in disbelief. "Dang!" Gunselman said.

Mikael Backlund helped Sweden advance to the world junior hockey championship final, scoring two goals in a 5-3 comeback victory over Slovakia on Saturday.

David Ullstrom, Simon Hjalmarsson and Oscar Moller also scored for Sweden, which will face the Canada-Russia semifinal winner Monday night. Last year in the Czech Republic, Canada beat Sweden in overtime in the final for its fourth straight title.

'I played in the final last year, but this is incredible with the fans here,' Backlund said of the crowd of 18,112 fans at Scotiabank Place.

Jordan Eberle and John Tavares scored in a shootout and Canada beat Russia 6-5 on Saturday night to advance to world junior hockey championship final for the eighth straight season.

Eberle, a first-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers who plays for the Regina Pats in the Western Hockey League, scored twice in regulation, the second with 5 seconds left and goalie Dustin Tokarski off for an extra attacker.

'I didn't ever give up and I think that's the biggest thing for Team Canada,' Eberle said. 'We didn't give up all throughout the game.

Authorities say two snowmobilers and a passenger died when their vehicles crashed on a trail in northern Wisconsin.

Vilas (VYE'-lahs) County sheriff's officials say both drivers and the passenger died Saturday morning in the town of Arbor Vitae (VYE'-tah).

The names of the dead have not been released.

The state Department of Natural Resources and the Vilas County coroner are investigating the accident.

The town is about 120 miles northwest of Green Bay.