Six Getty Images photographers share their favorite photos from the first week of the Winter Olympics and take us behind the scenes.

Winter Sports. Why Skiers Are ... Get into the winter spirit with these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. January 3, 2025. On This Day in History.

Early ice skates had bones for blades and the first snowboarders called their sport snurfing—short for snow surfing. Discover the origins of these and more Winter Olympics events.

Mascots Binbin (L) and Nini are seen during a ceremony to mark 300 days to go for the 9th Asian Winter Games Harbin 2025 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, April 13, 2024. [Photo ...

The graphics show the topographical map of the mountain he calls home. Suitable for skiers, too. £137. oakley.com. ... Published in the Winter Sports 2022/23 guide, ...

Getty Images. The 2022 Winter Olympics kick off on Feb. 4 and run through Feb 20. ... which means there will be 19 days filled with 109 events across 15 disciplines in seven winter sports.

The XXV Winter Games will be unlike any other, and features a highly-anticipated return to Cortina d’Ampezzo, 70-years after the glamorous northern Italian ski resort gained international ...

The environmentally unfriendly secret of winter sports is that many competitions take place on artificial snow. China’s water-scarce capital had to go to enormous lengths to make enough of it.