Fitness has become an important aspect of curling over the last decade. It’s especially crucial for sweepers, who pump brooms across the ice to influence a stone’s path to the house. Curling is a game ...

Valerie Constien felt as if she had cleared the most challenging of her career’s hurdles and was at long last ready to turn on the jets as a professional runner. Yet the steeplechase, Constien’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Valerie Constien’s remarkably swift return from a devastating knee injury fell short of Olympic glory. The former distance standout for the Colorado ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy – Rich Ruohonen, 54, remembers when curlers smoked cigarettes on the ice. "All we did was throw rocks and think we could be better," he said. That was a few decades ago, when ...