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Josh Dueck of Canada races to win his silver medal in downhill, sitting skiing event at the 2014 Winter Paralympic, Saturday, March 8, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.

When an eight-year-old boy from Shoreview, a town in Minnesota, wrote a letter to Olympic snowboarder Shaun White, he never expected the response he received.

James Stewart rebounded from his disappointing finish a week ago at the Daytona Supercross by taking a solid victory at the Detroit Supercross at Ford Field in front of a record 50,856 fans.

A red carpet, a high school band, cheerleaders and some 2,000 supporters brought a taste of Sochi, Russia, to a Lake Tahoe ski resort with chants of "USA, USA, USA," as the community welcomed home three local Olympic competitors.

The USA team celebrate winning the Ice Sledge Hockey Gold Medal match between Russia and USA at the Shayba Arena during day eight of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games on March 15, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

A former squad leader in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division who received a Purple Heart has won a silver medal at the Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

Victor Oehling Norberg of Sweden won the freestyle ski cross World Cup and Fanny Smith of Switzerland stood highest on the women's podium on Saturday.

Canada's Dominique Maltais competes in the women's snowboard cross seeding runs during the Sochi Winter Olympics on Monday.

Nevada City residents are celebrating the victory of one of their own after 27-year-old Evan Strong won the gold medal in the men’s snowboard cross competition Friday at the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.

The 4C Coupe can be a bit of a handful sometimes, but it is a welcome return to Alfa Romeo's glory days.

This story is a sample from the Virginia Beach Beacon, which is included in The Virginian-Pilot every Sunday and Thursday in Virginia Beach.

Crash Reel is the powerful story of Kevin Pearce who suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him in a coma for weeks and changed his life forever.

Cole has cashed enough six-figure contest checks and done well enough from shoe deals to afford a nice lifestyle for his family in a million-dollar house hidden away in a hilly, rural area of northern San Diego County, where rattlesnakes occasionally slither onto the property and coyotes howl at night.

At the top of Wolverine Saddle at Alpine Meadows, California, competitors settle into the start gate.

Sit-skier Josh Dueck won the men's super combined on Friday after putting down a memorable run in the super-G following a fifth-place showing in Tuesday's slalom portion of the race.

Russia's Roman Petushkov celebrates his gold medal during the men's 1 km sprint cross-country sitting at the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games in Rosa Khutor.

What: 2014 Monster Energy AMA Supercross. When: 7 p.m. Saturday . Where: Ford Field.

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Jet Feirn, 9, had waited 15 months for an answer to the letter to his hero, Olympic medal-winning snowboarder Shaun White.

One of the stray Russian puppies that Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy tried to rescue during the 2014 winter games died before leaving the country.