William Oscar Johnson

In Innsbruck the Winter Olympics come to a close with a flurry of slalom races and flourishes on the figure-skating rink. Again, William Oscar Johnson and a team of photographers will report.

Daredevil dashes on Innsbruck's downhill runs highlight the opening week of the Winter Olympics, in which the U.S. hopes to strike skating gold. William Oscar Johnson reports.

Right from the start, Austria promised the world a change for 1976: the show would be better, but not bigger—a return to the "simple games" concept of Squaw Valley in 1960. And now, $148 million later, everything is...