Women score gold Web-posted 2/17/98   NAGANO - The newest miracle on ice team earned a gold medal Tuesday when the U.S. women's team beat Canada 3-1 Tuesday.

A virtual view of Nagano  The curling venue  Nagano street scene    NAGANO - Take a walk outside of your flat, photographic world and enter one of our virtual reality views of Nagano. Using the IPIX plug-in, you can get a complete, 360-degree look at the stadium that will hold the closing ceremonies, the curling venue, or a Nagano street scene.

U.S. men face another loss Web-posted 2/16/98   NAGANO - The U.S. men's hockey team keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole for itself in the Olympic tournament. They lost to Canada Monday and now must face the Czech Republic on Wednesday in a quarter final game of the medal round.

Witty ends medal drought Web-posted 2/16/98   NAGANO - The seventh U.S. medal in the Winter Olympics surprised everyone including the woman who won it.

Hermann still has the hunger Web-posted 2/16/98   NAGANO - Often the difference between an Olympic medal and an Olympic memory is desire. Whoever wants it most wins the medal.

Notebook from Nagano Web-posted 2/16/98   NAGANO - The rewards keep coming in for the four Americans who won the first Olympic medals for American lugers. Silver medalists Chris Thorpe and Gordy Sheer received $20,000 each from the United States Olympic Committee's Operation Gold program and matching funds from the U.S. Luge Association.

Postcards home Web-posted 2/16/98   Sumimase. (Excuse me.) But it has been such a beautiful dream I have been having as I have been traveling fom one venue to the next.