Johnny Spillane

The United States racked up a record 37 medals, including nine gold, at the 2010 Winter Olympics. With the pre-Olympic World Cup and world championship winter sports season over for U.S. athletes, it’s a good time to look at the U.S. chances for...

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So here we are, at the end of another year, finding ourselves looking back at an Olympics with tragedy and triumph, with good sports and sore losers (you know who you are, Evgeny Plushenko), a year with stirring achievements and......

Now that Norm Bellingham has decided to step down on Feb. 11 after 4 1/2 years as chief operating officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, it would be easy to remember his USOC career only for the outlandish compensation he......

The team of Brett Camerota (Park City, Utah), Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Billy Demong (Vermontville, N.Y.) and Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) made history for the United States, winning the silver medal in the team Nordic...

The United States is in second place after the large hill portion of the team Nordic combined competition, with the 4x5-kilometer relay scheduled for 2 p.m. this afternoon. The American quartet of Brett Camerota (Park City, Utah), Todd Lodwick (Steamboat....

Bill Demong won gold and Johnny Spillane won silver, his third silver medal of the Vancouver Games, in large hill Nordic Combined on Thursday. Demong, starting sixth in the 10-kilometer cross-country after the morning ski jump, quickly made up time......

For the second time in two weeks, the previously untouchable "American Idol" television show on Fox was beaten by NBC's Olympic coverage Thursday night. That coverage included Americans Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane going 1-2 in a Nordic combined...

Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria may have won the women's downhill on Wednesday but it was American Lindsey Kildow who got all the attention. Kildow finished eighth in a courageous performance just two days after taking a horrible fall on this course....

Fresh off a silver medal in the ice dance competition, the United States kept the momentum going after the first night of the women's short program in figure skating. Sasha Cohen, who finished fourth in Salt Lake City, skated a near flawless routine and...

Until the day a U.S. athlete can claim supremacy in nordic combined -- or even claim an Olympic medal -- Todd Lodwick will have to be satisfied with Americans' expertise in other sports. Finland won the event this year. "Do you watch a lot of the...