The coach of China's aerials ski team has vowed it will do better at the next Olympics after failing to claim gold in one of the nation's targeted events at the Sochi Games.
New pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie said on Sunday he was aiming to leap even higher than the towering 6.16 meters he cleared the day before in Donetsk.
Dutch skater Jorien ter Mors thought her world had ended when she finished outside the medals in the short track 1,500m on Saturday.
While American spectators are upset at being denied a frosty cold one during Sochi Olympic hockey games most Russians agree with the ban, saying it helps keep rowdy fans in check.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insisted on Sunday comments from Chelsea rival Jose Mourinho that he was a "specialist in failure" were "silly" and "disrespectful".
Zhao Hongbo has just completed his fifth Winter Olympics trip but, this time, it was as a coach of China's figure skating pairs team and not as an athlete.
The Olympic victory of a Korean speed skater competing for Russia has triggered outrage in South Korea, with public anger directed squarely at the national skating body.
After years of making little impact on Russia's sporting fortunes, foreign-born athletes poached from abroad are finally making an impact at the Winter Olympics.
Teenage figure skater Yan Han has vowed the "best is yet to come" after finishing a groundbreaking seventh for China at the Sochi Winter Olympics,
Having escalated a war of words with his rivals, Jose Mourinho closed a week of petty sniping by admitting "football is at peace" after his Chelsea side was beaten by Manchester City in the FA Cup.
Russian Olympic skicross racer Maria Komissarova underwent 6 1/2 hours of spinal surgery on Saturday after breaking her back in a Sochi 2014 training crash.
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