Swiss skier Carlo Janka, 23 years old, "The Iceman," completes an incredible triple at the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek, winning the super-combined, the downhill and the giant slalom. Remember the name: Carlo Janka.

Bode Miller takes fourth in the Birds of Prey downhill Saturday at Beaver Creek. The alpine ski season is abruptly that much more interesting -- to, through and beyond the Vancouver Winter Games. Because Bode is back.

The courses are ice. The skis have edges like razor blades. Top speeds are 75 mph, fast enough to get a ticket from the highway patrol. The risk of injury -- always. Isn't alpine skiing the original "extreme sport"?

Tim Burke takes second at biathlon's World Cup season opener. The Americans have never won an Olympic medal in biathlon. Could the U.S. team be on the verge of making history in Vancouver?

Marion Jones says, "It's important for people to know that it’s possible to make a mistake in your life, but it’s what you do after the mistake that people are going to remember you by." In an open letter to Jones, Alan Abrahamson says that won't happen until she comes clean with the full and complete truth about her use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Two-time World Cup overall winner, aiming to better last year's career-best fourth place in the giant slalom in Aspen, instead hits a rock halfway down Run One. She doesn't qualify for the second run. That's alpine racing -- and why any prediction about Vonn winning so many medals at the Vancouver Olympics has to be unreliable.

The 18-year-old South African keeps the gold medal won at the 800 meters in Berlin. The controversy is far from over, however. Plus: not to worry about Michael Phelps, a former IOC marketing director offers a revealing 2016 analysis and why all Twitter fans should be following sports agent Evan Morgenstein.

NFL commissioner to head panel charged with reviewing USOC "governance structure."

Sasha Cohen, who hasn't competed in three years, withdrew from Skate America, a development which could hurt her Vancouver prospects. Our Olympic insider Alan Abrahamson addresses Cohen's injury, as well as other Olympic stories, including Larry Probst's too-brief trip to Guadalajara, and Stephen Colbert's 'U-Ice-A!'