FALUN, Sweden -- Six-time Olympian Mario Stecher of Austria has ended his Nordic combined career, 21 years after winning his first of 12 World Cups. The 37-year-old Stecher, who has been left out ...

Austria won the gold medal in the Nordic combined team relay on Tuesday, edging the Americans. Billy Demong, of Vermontville, N.Y., had a slight edge over Mario Stecher heading into the stadium ...

This, they tell me, is the time of the American Empire. Gone are the three bastions of the French Revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity, to be replaced by America's three degrees: Mom, the ...