Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 years as he claimed victory in the men's sprint in the inaugural ski mountaineering event on Thursday.

SPAIN'S Oriol Cardona Coll won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in the men's ski mountaineering sprint at the Winter Games in Milan Cortina on Thursday -

By Marleen Kaesebier BORMIO, Italy, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Milano Cortina's only new Olympic sport, ski mountaineering, might have debuted in a snowstorm in Bormio, but the races went smoothly with lively crowds,

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — They skied uphill through a diamond-shaped pattern and climbed a flight of on-slope stairs in their ski boots. Far from done, they endured more lung-searing climbing, with skis back on,

The Winter Olympics’ newest sport is entertaining - but fundamental flaws make it merely a gimmick - The peculiar new sport at Milano-Cortina saw Marianne Fatton triumph at the expense of the unfortunate Emily Harrop,

The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut Thursday and crowned its first champion at the Milano Cortina Winter Games in Marianne Fatton of Switzerland.