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Wendy Sweet: Fun is the freeskier's middle name

'Hi Mum" - Beaming down into the camera, after death-defying runs on both the halfpipe and the slopestyle course.

Dana Johannsen: When did free speech become an F-word?

I've recently been told I should "stick to netball, sweetie" when it comes to my columns. I say, f*** that, states Herald sports writer Dana Johannsen.

Pistorius 'surfed porn' before shooting

Oscar Pistorius was allegedly surfing porn websites on his mobile phone the night he shot model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home.

Jossi Wells flagbearer for NZ

Freeskier Jossi Wells has been announced as the flagbearer for the the New Zealand Olympic Team at the closing ceremony

Winter Olympics: Finding the cold hard cash

With the Sochi flame about to be snuffed, debate rages as to the quality of New Zealand's performance.

David Leggat: Sochi funders must take long, cold look at winter sports

The summer and winters Games are different beasts. What can't differ, however, is how they are assessed when it comes to funding, writes David Leggat.

Sochi: Janina Kuzma fifth in women's halfpipe

Sochi: Barwood 44th in giant slalom

Sochi Games: Wells just misses medal

Freestyle skier Jossi Wells has just missed out on winning New Zealand's second ever Winter Olympics medal with a fourth in the halfpipe event at Sochi.

Winter Olympics: Willcox aiming high

Winter Olympics: Speedskaters give Dutch clean sweep

Triumph made sweeter as twin brothers take gold, bronze in 500m race in Sochi.

Love search an Olympic hit

Kiwi snowboarder causes a stir at Sochi after looking for romance via Tinder dating app.

New Zealanders fail to make finals in snowboard slopestyle

Putin's wondrous show

Vladimir Putin did not need to try to steal the limelight when this Olympic show, the most expensive the world has ever seen, was all his.

NZ women forced into slopestyle semifinals

New Zealand's four-strong female snowboard contingent will battle it out in the slopestyle semifinals tomorrow.

Winter Olympics: Kiwi snowboarders out to take second chance

Grant Bayldon: Putin playing games over human rights

Scotty Stevenson: Lycra it or not, let 'Putin's Games' begin

Hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned and with the finishing touches still in the realm of fantasy, the criticism of Olympic authorities has been loud and scathing, writes Scotty Stevenson.