Canadian Mellissa Hollingsworth won World Cup gold on Thursday at a skeleton track that has plagued her since a disappointing fifth place finish at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Crown counsel has approved charges against the B.C. man who alleged he killed dozens of sled dogs in Whistler following 2010 Winter Olympics.

Karen Solie, a Toronto-based poet who won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2010 for Pigeon, is to represent Canada at a Poetry Parnassus being planned in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics.

Some of the world's top bobsledders, lugers and skeleton racers are in Sochi this week testing out the new sliding track for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Safety has been a major concern throughout the construction of the track, especially after the death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili in a training run at the facility used for sliding at the 2010 Vancouver Games.