Steven Bradbury’s unlikely moment of glory was the fluke heard around the world
The veteran skater’s sequence of miracles in Salt Lake City resulted in one of the most joyous Olympic victories by any Australian
February 2022
Nathan Chen’s world record gives him control at Beijing figure skating
Nathan Chen banished the memories of Pyeongchang with a record-breaking short program routine to put himself in control of the men’s figure skating competition
February 2014
Mitt Romney criticises Putin for 'unsavoury' Sochi Olympics
Ex-presidential candidate, who ran Salt Lake City Games, says ‘You don’t need to spend $50bn as Russia has’
July 2012
US news blog
Mitt Romney stays quiet on made-in-China US Olympics uniforms
A 2002 torchbearer says Romney's silence may stem from similar 2002 Salt Lake City controversy
June 2011
Digger
Fifa's João Havelange faces IOC inquiry into £610,000 bung allegation
Fifa has suffered a fresh blow after the International Olympic Committee began an investigation into João Havelange over a BBC Panorama programme's allegations that he took bribes
February 2010
The Winter Olympics changed my life
Rhona Martin: The skip of Great Britain's curlers has had her life transformed by winning gold at Salt Lake City in 2002
November 2009
Ski jumping: just call me Eddie the Eagle
Forget black runs – Jonathan Thompson takes on skiing's ultimate challenge at an Olympic training facility near Salt Lake City
November 2002
Interview: Alain Baxter
November 11: The first Briton to win an Olympic skiing medal has learned to live without his bronze since being stripped of it but, he tells Jim White, the new season will give him the chance to move on.
October 2002
History on Baxter's side
Scottish skier Alain Baxter has a good chance of overturning the ban which has barred him from Olympic competition.
'Sincere and honest' Baxter loses medal appeal
British skier Alain Baxter today failed in his bid to have his Winter Olympics bronze medal reinstated, but has been cleared of being a drugs cheat.
Who the Dickens is Alain Baxter?
1973: Born December 26, Edinburgh. Named after French World Cup slalom star Alain Penz by parents Iain and Sue, both members of the British ski team.
August 2002
Baxter wins appeal over ban
Did the Mafia trade in gold?
Mafia drama puts Olympics in another big fix
'Russian mafia kingpin' accused of fixing Olympic skating result
June 2002
Baxter let off with minimum ban
June 4: Britain's Alain Baxter, the slalom skier who was stripped of his Olympic bronze medal after failing a drugs test, was banned for three months by the International Ski Federation in Slovenia yesterday.
