News & Features: Author Amanda Butterfield

• Sochi, Russia excited to be next home of Winter Olympics POSTED: Feb 27, 9:26p ET | UPDATED: Feb 27, 9:26p ET By Amanda Butterfield As the Vancouver games wrap up, another city is ready to take the torch. Sochi, Russia will be the host of the next Winter games.
• Ogden bobsled veteran looking for gold POSTED: Feb 26, 11:54a ET | UPDATED: Feb 26, 10:36p ET By Amanda Butterfield Getting ready to compete in his third Winter Games, Ogden native Bill Schuffenhaur is considered the veteran of the U.S. bobsled team. He's looking for another medal in Vancouver.
  
  He got a silver in the four-man bobsled when he was eight years younger. Now Bill is the oldest on the U.S. team and is hungry for another win.
  
• Westminster boasts 14 students competing in Olympics POSTED: Feb 26, 1:39a ET | UPDATED: Feb 26, 1:08p ET By Amanda Butterfield Westminster College has over a dozen of its current students competing in the Vancouver Olympics. Those at the school tell us there's no other school in the country with that many students competing in the Games.
• Olympic village said to be 'best yet' POSTED: Feb 25, 1:32a ET | UPDATED: Feb 25, 1:32a ET By Amanda Butterfield For the past four Olympics, a Salt Lake man has been in charge of the athletes' villages. He's lived all over the world setting up the accommodations where the different countries stay, but this village, he and many others say, is the best yet.
• Olympics bittersweet for some female athletes POSTED: Feb 23, 10:00p ET | UPDATED: Feb 23, 10:54p ET By Amanda Butterfield It's a bittersweet time for a group of female athletes that has tried for six years to get into the Olympics. Women's Ski Jump is not an Olympic event, but the fight is not over.