NEW YORK (Reuters) - As top athletes from around the world gear up for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, video gamers can also lace up the skates or strap on the snowboard in a trio of titles bringing winter sports to life. Japanese game maker Sega, which won the publishing rights for the official 2010 Winter Olympics video games, has two ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defending Olympic champion Shaun White has thrown down a challenge with his newest snowboarding trick and shown that he is the man to beat on the halfpipe at the Vancouver Games. "The Flying Tomato," whose gold-medal run in Turin launched him to superstar status and brought him millions of dollars in endorsements, pulled off his latest trick on ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Snowboarder Shaun White and downhiller Lindsey Vonn will spearhead the American medal assault at the Winter Olympics after the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) named their team for Vancouver Tuesday. Short track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno joined Vonn and White as the featured names on the 216-member team for Vancouver, announced just after midnight. Ohno and White were ...