The Winter Olympics are a bit of an enigma to most sports fans in the United States. The average person has seen hockey, the understand figure skating, and we get enough extreme sports through osmosis that the snowboard half pipe makes sense — but a lot of the events are more Euro-centric.

Here’s a fun thought experiment as these Games draw to a close.

GENEVA (AP) — Olympic winter sports must be played on snow and ice, according to the Olympic Charter. But could a muddy field of play get its chance at a future Winter Games, even as soon as in the French Alps in 2030 or Salt Lake City in 2034?

Poll features 35 athletes from basketball, bowling, wrestling, hockey and swimming across the Flint area. Voting closes Monday, Feb. 23 at 9 a.m.

Athletes can reach speeds of up to 96 miles per hour, according to our analysis, which is faster than a cheetah.

The Olympic podium is not the end-all, be-all. Even the Olympics themselves cannot define the career of a great athlete like Mikaela Shiffrin.

Live stream the battle for medals from anywhere in the world.

The all-conference bowler for the Trojans finished second in the OK Silver Conference tournament this past weekend with a 600 series.

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