olympics

43 years ago the U.S. hockey team did something many didn't think was possible. They beat the four time defending Olympic gold medalist Russian team in a miracle game in Lake Placid

The New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) was created in 1980 to oversee the facilities associated with the Olympics. They continue to make sure the facilities are purposefully reimagined to keep the communities and mountains enticing. Now they are involved in making a new ride at Gore mountain, the largest in the state.

A tense standoff at a U.S.-Canadian border crossing crucial to both countries' economies appears to be dissolving peacefully as Canadian police move in to disperse the protest.

Here's a list with pictures of all our New York hometown heroes competing in the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Then there are the other athletes. The ones that train their entire lives for this moment in time. The hours of early mornings and late nights, eating right, working out, honing your craft. Opportunity doesn't present itself twice for many of these athletes. Fans or not, this is what they live for and if the games are being played, they are ready to go.

Athletes will be punished if they break the rule.

What is the future for this year's Olympic Games?

Grace Claxton joins Big Board Sports less than one month after competing in the Olympic games in Rio. Claxton, a member of the UAlbany track team, competed for Puerto Rico in the games. In this interview she talks about her experience in Rio, her relationship with her coach, and readjusting to life back at school...

The 2016 Rio Olympics may be over, but they helped provide a very touching story for a child in need. Piotr Malachowski, a prominent Polish discus thrower who took home a silver medal in the Rio Games, decided to auction off his medal in hopes of raising enough money for 3-year-old Olek Szymanski, who has retinoblastoma, to receive surgery on a form of eye cancer he is currently battling... Read M

The 2016 Rio Olympics had its moments, but none were better than what happened yesterday during the Bronze medal match in wrestling. With the Mongolian wrestler up a point with seconds left, he started celebrating in the face of his opponent instead of engaging him like he is supposed too...

You may not like Carmelo Anthony, but he's already cemented his legacy. Maybe his NBA career isn't what you want it to be, maybe he'll never win a championship, and maybe he won't ever be in the same conversation as LeBron James. Maybe you'll equate him to Derrick Rose and Allen Iverson, talented scorers who couldn't help their team in many other ways, but it doesn't matter...

With so many negative story lines leading up to the Olympic games in Rio De Janeiro this summer, it's hard to seperate what is true and what has been overblown.