Author: Christine Brennan, USA TODAY

The Olympic team figure skating event, introduced just eight years ago, is an opportunity and a hindrance to the people who matter most, the skaters.

Here is a list of my favorite Winter Olympics moments, either those I watched on TV or from press row. It starts with The Miracle on Ice.

Mariah Bell won her first U.S. title, but positive COVID-19 tests by Amber Glenn and likely Olympic pick Alysa Liu hung over the competition.

On Thursday at the US Figure Skating Championships, even Gracie Gold’s competitors stopped what they were doing to witness her on-ice performance.

Veteran IOC member Dick Pound says concerns from countries over viability of next month’s Winter Olympics amid spiking COVID cases are legitimate.

Lesley Visser, a sports television trailblazer who worked with John Madden for 10 years on CBS’s NFL broadcasts, said “America lost a family member.”

Just a few months ago, conversation centered on the hope that Tiger Woods would walk normally again. Now he is playing in a tournament with his son.

China’s state-run media released a statement it said was from tennis star Peng Shuai.