Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze made Winter Olympics history in the women’s downhill as they shared the gold medal in Sochi.

Ireland's Seamus O'Connor has missed out on a place in the men's half-pipe final at the Winter Olympics in Sochi today.

The helmet art being sported by some of the Skeleton competitors - including Ireland's Sean Greenwood - is pretty amazing.

India has been reinstated to the Olympics in time for the flag to fly at the Sochi Winter Games.

Ever since the Winter Olympics were awarded to Russia, fears were raised about potential terrorist attacks, which have plagued the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, writes Dmitri Trenin.

Yards from its improbable palm-fringed seafront and attended by a president whose seven-year, £31bn dream was starting to unfold before his steely eyes, Sochi welcomed the Winter Olympics with an opening ceremony of fittingly exorbitant scale in the Fisht Stadium last night.

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were declared officially open by Russian president Vladimir Putin at a lavish ceremony this evening in which International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for “goodwill, tolerance, excellence and peace”.

Russian police have arrested four gay rights activists protesting in St Petersburg on the opening day of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

The US Homeland Security Department is banning all liquids from hand luggage for non-stop flights from the United States to Russia.

Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor remains confident a place in the final of the slopestyle snowboarding event can be secured tomorrow morning.

Corruption claims have dogged preparations for the Sochi Winter Olympics, writes Nataliya Vasilyeva

Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor will have another chance to qualify for the finals at the Winter Olympics in Saturday morning's semi-final.

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister has confirmed the Kremlin’s view on gay rights in Sochi, asking athletes to “leave the kids alone”.

The first of two warships has sailed from Italy in a high-profile sign of US efforts to protect Americans at the Winter Olympics – and at least two dozen FBI agents are on their way to Russia.