Author: Rachel Axon, USA TODAY

Enforcement of the federal gender-equity law is essentially toothless, mired in red tape and delays as aggrieved students wait years for relief.

USA TODAY measured schools’ compliance with the first prong of the fed’s three-part test, requiring proportionality between enrollment and athletics.

Weeks after allegations against Peter Foley surfaced, the president of U.S. Ski & Snowboard defends how the federation investigated the longtime coach

The USA won just seven medals in halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. Men’s snowboarding came away with no medals for the first time since 1998.

Four years ago, David Wise and Alex Ferreira took the top two spots, respectively. In Beijing, New Zealand’s Nico Porteous leap-frogged them for gold.

Since 2014, the IOC has added mixed events in nine sports at the Winter Games, but that hasn’t solved the problem.

While the level of tricks was tame in the halfpipe on Thursday, all expect several skiers to land double cork 1620s in the final.

The U.S. team has had at least one medalist in each of the three times this event has been contested in the Olympics, with a sweep in 2014.