Security's tight, relentless
We've just passed the halfway mark, and all is quiet at the most fortified Olympics in U.S. history. But don't think the first nine days of relative tranquility at the 2002 Winter Games means security planners are resting easy just yet.
Utahns flock to downtown Salt Lake en masse
They came as couples, families, groups and singles. They came with dogs, with kids, with strollers and balloons. And they all came downtown. At once. On a mild Saturday afternoon they jammed sidewalks, street corners, and flowed into Main Street as if it was a park.
Rocky makes the scheduled rounds — and then some
It's not easy corralling a keyed-up Olympic mayor. But Rocky Anderson's staff tried anyway, since TV cameras were massing outside his office — and for a fleeting moment the staffers succeeded.
Leavitt making hay while the Games shine
Working on his grandfather's southern Utah farm, Mike Leavitt often heard the saying "Make hay while the sun shines." And Utah's governor is indeed making hay.
Sculptors battle sun and space
"Daydreams" shattered for a U.S. ice carving team just minutes before time was up Saturday morning and Buddy Rasmussen and Gene Puryear wept.
Canadian pair just hoping to get on with lives
Now that they have been promised their Olympic gold medal, Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier just want to get on with their lives.
Utilities, behind the scenes, keep Olympics moving
Without them, no one could see any Olympic nighttime events, no competitors would know their event times, no distant media outlet could disseminate their Games information. There literally would be no fire within.
Ethnic Village scrambling for funds to keep going
Salt Lake's Ethnic Village — which literally had the plug pulled earlier this weekend — is finally enjoying crowds after a slim first few days. But its organizers are now scrambling for funding so the village can stay open as planned through the end of the Olympics.
Agency taking its ads to Olympic masses
Portable and a little sneaky, a colorful image of a steamed, frothed Nescafe projected high on a downtown wall enticed the chilly throngs headed for the Olympics medals plaza.
Ski jumper overcomes adversity
We've heard a lot of different stories about problems athletes have had to overcome. But none is quite like Jeret Peterson of Boise, Idaho.
Rogge gets high marks for boosting IOC's image during 'Skategate'
Who could have guessed that the International Olympic Committee would be able to boost its image in Salt Lake City, home of the bid scandal? That's what appears to be happening, thanks to IOC President Jacques Rogge's leadership in the controversy over the figure skating pairs competition.
Injury to Johnson could force change in U.S. sled
Two months after bobsled driver Jean Racine dropped partner and best friend Jen Davidson, the pair might be riding together again in the Olympics.
Rulon Gardner improving
Demand is heavy for TRAX, buses
Ogden Sheet crowds don't bother residents
Oly Oval sets traps for mouse in house
Shoppers slide into jammin' Jamaican Bobsled Store
Safe spectators get high marks from Red Cross volunteers
Mother Nature nips the unwary
Fracas isn't over
Olympics no boon to Main Library
Park-and-ride lots
Olympic Images
Purrrfect perch for Games
Olympic sound-off question
Olympic postcard
Olympics on TV
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