U.S. bobsled pilot Justin Olsen has been released from a hospital in Guangneung, South Korea, two days after undergoing surgery to remove his appendix.

Olsen is scheduled to compete in the two-man and four-man events starting Feb. 18.

“We know he’s going to do what he can within his power to be at the starting line on race day,” USA Bobsled and Skeleton Chief Executive Darrin Steele said in a statement earlier this week.

A year ago, Wiley Maple wondered whether he would be able to run or jump again.

The veteran U.S. Alpine skier underwent four knee surgeries in five years because of a deteriorating patella tendon. He had three back surgeries and suffered a dislocated ankle and elbow.

Competing in the Winter Olympics seemed as far away for Maple as an injury-free season.

The U.S. Olympic Alpine ski team has added Tricia Mangan to replace the injured Jackie Wiles.

Mangan, 20, finished fourth in the super-G at the Junior World Ski Championships in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year.

Wiles had been expected to be a key part of the U.S. team but crashed during the downhill in a World Cup event at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, last week. She suffered a slew of injuries to her left leg, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament and two broken bones.

Thirty-two cases of norovirus have been confirmed among workers at the 2018 Winter Olympics, organizers said Tuesday.

Much of the outbreak has been concentrated among 1,023 security personnel housed at the Horeb Youth Center in Pyeongchang. There have been several cases in other locations.

The ill reported suffering from headaches, stomach pain and diarrhea, organizers said.

Even at 10 years old, Nathan Chen had the focus and certainty of a champion.

As the newly crowned winner of the 2010 U.S. novice men's figure skating title, the Salt Lake City native was invited to join members of the Vancouver-bound Olympic team in skating at a post-competition gala. Skating to "Peter and the Wolf," the precocious, 4-foot-5 Chen reeled off a series of difficult jumps with the charm of a seasoned performer. Which he was, in a way, thanks to his remarkable skills at gymnastics, piano, ballet, and the rec-room hockey games he played against his two older brothers.

Just days before the start of the 2018 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee has formally refused to invite 15 Russian athletes and coaches who had their lifetime bans overturned by an international court.

The IOC announced its decision Sunday during meetings at the site of the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Lauren Gibbs figures most of her Pepperdine MBA classmates are running companies and wearing stylish outfits while they work in comfortable offices. For Gibbs, work means wearing a skintight, aerodynamically designed racing suit and running along frozen bobsled tracks to push a 365-pound sled before jumping in and hurtling through steep curves and icy straightaways at speeds that can approach 95 mph.

Her former classmates and coworkers are trying to rule the corporate world, and Gibbs might rejoin them someday. But first, the 33-year-old Los Angeles native hopes to rule the women’s Olympic bobsled world as the brakeman for pilot and two-time U.S. Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor at the Pyeongchang Games.

Don't know who Ryan Zapolski is? You're not alone. Even the most knowledgeable hockey fan would have trouble identifying the likely starting goaltender for the U.S. men's team at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

The NHL's decision not to allow its players to represent their homelands in these Winter Games sent national hockey federations scrambling to fill their rosters. Suddenly, scouts were watching video of players toiling in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League and European elite and secondary leagues, seeking candidates who might have been too small or too slow for the NHL or were late bloomers and would welcome an unexpected shot at Olympic glory.

Rafael Arutunian can fix uncomfortable figure skating boots and mend bad jumping habits with equal ease, molding materials and technique with the sureness of a coach who has analyzed axels and scrutinized salchows for 40 years at rinks in Armenia, Russia and the United States.

But what makes him so successful is his ability to see into his skaters' minds and hearts and provide the precise motivation they need, a gift whose value goes beyond teaching how to make an efficient entrance to a jump or nail a landing.

Arutunian, 60, will coach Americans Nathan Chen and Adam Rippon and Czech skater Michal Brezina at the Pyeongchang Olympics, a trio he has coached at the Rinks-Lakewood for nearly two years.