2014 winter olympics

Worldwide, a movement is taking place that celebrates our humanity, and the upcoming 2018 Winter Paralympics is the next great opportunity for all of us to share in it. The increasingly popular event will help change further the perception of the disabled community and what its members can do.

Here’s what to watch and how to watch.

O.A.R., a rock band from Rockville, Maryland, has seen an uptick in popularity since the start of the Winter Games, thanks to the Russian competitors' special designation as "Olympic Athlete from Russia."

Here’s what to watch and how to watch.

Under Armour's speed skating uniforms have, well, caught some eyes over the past couple of days.

Here’s what to watch and how to watch.

Here’s what to watch and how to watch.

Years of training make athletes quick thinkers and decision makers.

Here’s what to watch and how to watch.

Here’s what to watch and how to watch.

It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag. And then Shani Davis tweeted.

Sun photographer Lloyd Fox writes about photographing U.S. Olympic Bobsledder Aja Evans during a early morning training session at Under Armour's facility in Baltimore. Evans is heading to the Pyeongchang, Korea Winter Games, which start Friday.

The U.S. Team headed for South Korea won't feature as much star power as usual in the traditional high-ratings events, but there are a lot of great athletes and story lines if fans dig deep enough.

As she coped with the unwelcome end to her career as an Olympic figure skater, Kimmie Meissner wanted nothing to do with the sport that made her famous. A half-decade later, she goes to the rink almost every afternoon, drawn by the unfettered enthusiasm of the young skaters she coaches.

From nuclear politics to American skiing stars to Russian doping, here are the key stories when the 2018 Winter Olympics begin Friday.

After a disastrous performance at the 2014 Winter Games, the U.S. speedskating team has doubled down on its partnership with Under Armour, its outfitter and sponsor whose speed suits were ditched by some of the skaters in Sochi.

From Baltimore figure skater Monty Hoyt in the 1964 Games to Rockville ice hockey player Haley Skarupa in these Olympics, here are some of the state’s winter warriors.

The Glen Rock, Pa., resident and daughter of Baltimore City Fire Department battalion chief Bill Britcher has "never once not loved luge, though there have been times when I’ve gotten pretty mad at it."

This could be the most uncertain Olympic bobsled competition in some time.

Five-time World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist Eric Frenzel will be aiming to continue his dominance of Nordic combined at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

At 17, Chloe Kim is the favorite to win the Olympic halfpipe contest being held in South Korea, the country where her parents grew up.

After fracturing her ankle before the Sochi Games, American Maggie Voisin will be a medal contender in the slopestyle contest.

Double Olympic champion Kamil Stoch is in peak form as he aims to defend his ski jumping titles at the Pyeongchang Games. 

Bjoergen, the most successful women’s cross-country skier in history, has won three gold medals in each of the past two Winter Games.

No NHL participation for the first time since 1994 threatens to upset the traditional world hockey order.

Mikaela Shiffrin heads to Pyeongchang as an overwhelming favorite to be the first to win consecutive slalom golds, and will be a contender to win the giant slalom and combined, too, for a chance to match the Alpine record of three titles at one Olympics.

Martin Fourcade regularly gives away his World Cup biathlon medals to fans after races. But don’t expect France’s star biathlete to give away any bronze, silver or gold hardware that he wins in Pyeongchang.

The big oval is going to get a lot more crowded at the Pyeongchang Games.

This is what a cultural reckoning looks like. Eight days after Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King spoke movingly of their reactions to allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by CBS colleague Charlie Rose, a shaken Savannah Guthrie told viewers today that Matt Lauer had been fired at NBC.

James M. "Jamie" Scott, a costumer designer whose work was featured on both the stage and in opera, died Sept. 20 from liver cancer at Bebee Medical Center in Lewes, Del. He was 56.

Waldorf-based Mike Cunningham has sharpened the blades of Olympic champion figure skaters such as Dorothy Hamill, Tara Lipinski, Meryl Davis and Charlie White.

Teachers across Howard County are getting creative when it comes to physical education. Though many schools still offer traditional units like basketball and soccer, more are incorporating activities like golf, bicycling and even obstacle courses into their classes.

From November through March, Ethan and Christian Coherd pile their battered and worn secondhand equipment into their mom's equally battered white 2012 Honda Odyssey. The twins and their mom, Krystal Lucado, make the 1 1/2-hour drive from Baltimore to Roundtop Mountain in Lewisberry, Pa., five days a week to practice Alpine snowboarding. They estimate that they spend more than 40 hours a week training, in addition to school and homework. The Coherd twins are not fazed by the obstacles.

Can the Olympics and democracy co-exist? It's a question being asked again this summer after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond the fact that the International Olympic Committee put the biggest event in winter sports in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any real snow, people are concerned about China's demonstrated record of human rights violations during the last games it hosted, the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Can the Olympics and democracy co-exist? It's a question being asked again this summer after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond the fact that the International Olympic Committee put the biggest event in winter sports in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any real snow, people are concerned about China's demonstrated record of human rights violations during the last games it hosted, the 2008 Summer Olympics.

As part of the USA Luge Junior National C team, which is just below the team that competes internationally, Columbia's Camille Johnson spent two weeks in February training on the Olympic track. She returned in June for offseason training, then she'll go to Canada during the holidays and to Park City after Christmas for races, which culminate with the Junior National Championships in March.

Amaris Hinton of the Baltimore Rowing Club and Poly is one of four recipients of an America Rows Junior National Team Grant.

John MacAloon, who has spent the entirety of his career studying the interplay between sports and politics, will be discussing the Olympic host city selection process at the college Thursday.

As the crystal ball on the 2016 Republican presidential nomination remains cloudy, two-time loser Mitt Romney appears willing at least to entertain the possibility of trying a third time.

The organization hoping to attract the 2024 Summer Olympics to the Washington region unveiled a website, logo and 17-member leadership team on Thursday that included Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank. Gov. Martin O'Malley offered his preliminary backTing, but the extent of Maryland's role – and potential financial commitment – remained largely undefined.

Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday put his support behind efforts to bring the 2024 Olympics to the greater Washington-D.C. area.

US Speedskating has identified factors that led to athletes' failure to medal, and the design of Under Armour suits is not among them, Ted Morris, executive director, said Friday.

Advocates in Maryland who backed the successful passage of the first statewide legal protections for transgender citizens in housing, employment and public accommodations this legislative session don't consider their work complete.

Since 1975, the Columbia Figure Skating Club has provided area skaters with the opportunity to pursue both recreational and competitive skating. Each spring, Pat Muth, her daughter Martha, granddaughter Melissa, and a host of volunteers put many of these rising ice stars in a standing-room-only spectacle, this time around appropriately called "Frozen In Time," at the Columbia Ice Rink.

Ellicott City residents are among the nation's top-ranked ballroom competitors in their age division, having won a national title in 2012 and gaining international experience and accolades along the way.

Baltimore's Becca Meyers and Ian Silverman set world records on the opening day of the 2014 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Spring National Championships/Spring CanAms on Thursday in Miami.