With a record entry of 60 athletes to the 18th Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan in 1998, China strived for its first gold medal but finished with six silvers and two bronzes. Chinese short-track ...

Skiing great Hermann Maier won four medals at the Olympics - and suffered one of the Games' most terrifying high-speed ...

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in ...

The Games’ emblem and the name of the event, “The 1998 Winter Paralympic Games Nagano” are engraved on the medal. The three Tae-Geuks, the symbol of the Paralympic Movement used from 1994 to 2004, is ...

Parabbit is the friendly mascot of the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games, where about 560 athletes competed in 122 medal events across five sports. Get to Know: The Design and Symbolism Parabbit is ...

Every time Litchfield native Evonne Young dropped the puck during the 1998 Winter Olympics, she was making history. Young was one of 10 women to make up the officiating crew for the Olympic debut ...

In 1998 Gian Simmen, then a relative unknown even in snowboarding circles, collected the first-ever half-pipe Olympic gold medal in Nagano. Gold in Japan transformed Gian into a national hero in ...

When was snowboarding added to the Olympics? Snowboarding first appeared at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. The only events were men's and women's giant slalom and halfpipe. Snowboard cross ...