'Hi Mum" - Beaming down into the camera, after death-defying runs on both the halfpipe and the slopestyle course.

Freeskier Jossi Wells has been announced as the flagbearer for the the New Zealand Olympic Team at the closing ceremony

The summer and winters Games are different beasts. What can't differ, however, is how they are assessed when it comes to funding, writes David Leggat.

Freestyle skier Jossi Wells has just missed out on winning New Zealand's second ever Winter Olympics medal with a fourth in the halfpipe event at Sochi.

Our Winter Olympians are a hard lot to get behind, writes Dana Johannsen. Given NZ's modest record, the team went to Sochi with very few expectations from the public.

Some of the most exciting moments in the Sochi Winter Olympics will be in racing events such as ski and snowboard cross and short-track speed skating.

Hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned and with the finishing touches still in the realm of fantasy, the criticism of Olympic authorities has been loud and scathing, writes Scotty Stevenson.

Had she not been blessed with a healthy dose of the give-it-a-go philosophy, Katharine Eustace would never have got to the Winter Olympics.

American hotshot Devin Logan marked her return from a serious injury in style with victory in a fog-curtailed World Cup freeski halfpipe at the Winter Games in Wanaka yesterday.

The Audi Quattro Games, which was introduced in 2009, is established as one of the top five winter sports events in the world and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere.

A glance at the fields for the halfpipe snowboard contests at the Winter Games this month supports Games boss Arthur Klap's assertion that it promises to be the best edition of the biennial winter extravaganza.

Top class snowboarder Rebecca Sinclair hopes what she calls "a hiccup" doesn't play havoc with her Winter Olympic dream.