Team USA repeated as gold medalists in figure skating team event after skier Breezy Johnson took first U.S. gold medal of Milan Cortina Games

The backflip, which was long banned in competition because of its inherent danger, is allowed now, though it also doesn’t carry a whole lot of scoring weight.

Team Canada figure skater Madeline Schizas made light of missing a college assignment ... because she was competing in the Olympics. Here's more.

Christina Carreira made the trip across the Blue Water Bridge separating Port Huron in Northern Michigan from the Canadian town of Sarnia so many times that border officials came to know her by name.