Sochi doesn't appear ready for prime time. "Toxic sludge filling washbasins" in half-finished hotel rooms is bad, says Katie Baker at Grantland. But "the tried-and-true Olympic hype cycle always ...

Katie Uhlaendar may not be ... Despite never having won an Olympic medal (she finished sixth in her debut at Torino 2006, and came within 0.04 seconds of a bronze medal during the controversial Sochi ...