VIENNA (AP) — The season-opening men’s World Cup race that was canceled in Soelden over the weekend has been rescheduled for another Austrian resort in December.

The international ski federation says the giant slalom will be held in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on Dec. 20, four days after another ...

SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Marcel Hirscher’s offseason preparations have been seriously hindered for a second straight year.

But few doubt it will affect the Austrian’s chances of winning his eighth overall World Cup title in a row, with the new Alpine skiing season getting underway this ...

MILAN (AP) — Italy will launch a three-city bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Turin and Cortina.

The Italian Olympic Committee announced the move on Wednesday, having decided a joint bid was more cost effective. It was unanimously voted for by the CONI board.

Milan Mayor ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Ester Ledecka has received a hero’s welcome in the Czech capital after winning an unprecedented Winter Olympics double in snowboarding and Alpine skiing.

“Ester, Ester,” chanted thousands of Czechs who braved freezing temperatures to see Ledecka at Prague’s picturesque Old ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local):

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Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic won the second leg of an unprecedented Winter Olympics double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding’s parallel giant slalom to pair with her ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Czech snow star Ester Ledecka won the second leg of an unheard-of Olympic double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding’s parallel giant slalom to go with her surprise skiing victory in the Alpine super-G a week earlier. Norway’s third-place finish in the new ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Now it is clear exactly how much it hurts Marcel Hirscher not to have an OIympic title in slalom.

After a stunning early exit in his best event, the 28-year-old Austrian star was ready to publicly rewrite his career plans.

“I need a gold medal in ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — For about 20 minutes during the Olympic giant slalom, Ryan Cochran-Siegle was in the leader’s box, soaking up the spotlight. By the end of the race Sunday, he had slipped into a tie for 11th.

That’s just about par on the icy course for the U.S. men’s Alpine ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Highlights from media coverage of the Pyeongchang Olympics:

BEING THERE: Sometimes the secret to good reporting is simply being there, even if you’d rather not. Alpine skiing reporter Steve Porino was right near American Mikaela Shiffrin as she vomited before heading out on ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Happy New Year! South Korea is celebrating its biggest holiday Friday with fireworks, cultural events and more curling. There will be lots of other Olympic feats of greatness. Here’s what to look for (all times Eastern):

FIGURE SKATING

Prime time means ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local):

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American Mikaela Shiffrin finally made her Pyeongchang Olympic debut on Day 6 of the Winter Games, speeding to gold in the women’s giant slalom after several days of weather ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — After several weather delays, Mikaela Shiffrin finally made her Pyeongchang Olympic debut, speeding to gold in the women’s giant slalom. Aksel Lund Svindal won the men’s downhill, making the 35-year-old Norwegian the oldest-ever Olympic gold medalist in Alpine ...

JEONGSEON, South Korea (AP) — Inadvertently, the Crown Prince of Norway picked a good day to head up the mountain to watch Alpine skiing.

The heir to the throne was in attendance Thursday when Norwegian teammates Aksel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud took gold and silver in the men’s ...

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Sharp, gusting wind forced the temporary closure of the Olympic Park in Gangneung on Wednesday, the latest blow from wild weather that has affected the games for several days.

Sustained winds of 23 mph (37 kph) with stronger gusts howled through the Olympic ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The start of Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for multiple medals at the 2018 Olympics was delayed yet again when the women’s slalom was postponed from Wednesday to ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local):

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Chloe Kim’s win in the women’s halfpipe final was the early highlight before attention moved to Alpine skiing and Marcel Hirscher’s victory in the men’s combined. Tuesday finished ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Alpine skiing is fast and dangerous and offers must-see races at the Pyeongchang Olympics — when they finally get started at this year’s wind-buffeted games.

The downhills — ski racing’s equivalent to track and field’s 100-meter dash — and American star

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of gold at the Pyeongchang Olympics will start on a different day than everyone expected — and in a different event, the slalom, which is her forte.

Of course, that’s assuming they ever get around to doing any racing at all in ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Alpine skiing coach says it’s an “honor” to compete at the Pyeongchang Olympics, though he doesn’t expect much from any of his three athletes.

North Korea is sending 22 athletes, including the Alpine skiers, to Pyeongchang thanks to special ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The women’s giant slalom featuring Mikaela Shiffrin has been rescheduled for Thursday, the same day as the men’s downhill at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

The first two events on the Alpine skiing schedule were postponed because of strong wind. Both will be ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — With the men’s downhill postponed because of whipping wind Sunday, it’ll be the women — and, notably, U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin — who get their first chance in more than 30 years to open the Alpine skiing show at the Olympics.

As her mother, Eileen, who ...

JEONGSEON, South Korea (AP) — Folks who only tune in to Alpine skiing every four years, when the Olympics roll around, are probably familiar with past gold medalists such as Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin. Fans of the sport know all about World Cup overall champions Marcel Hirscher and Aksel ...

There are several Maine athletes participating in the Winter Olympics, but only one carried a nation’s flag into the opening ceremonies.

Dinos Lefkaritis, who carried the flag for Cyprus on Friday, is a junior at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

The Sun Journal reports that he’s an ...

The most prized Olympic titles in Alpine skiing will be won this month on downhill courses raced only once before, and lined with trees that are sacred as symbols of fertility.

Only after the South Korean region was picked as host in 2011 were the wide speed tracks in Jeongseon cut through ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Lindsey Vonn edged Sofia Goggia in a foretaste of the Pyeongchang Olympic downhill on Saturday, raising her career total to 80 World Cup victories.

The American standout beat Goggia by two hundredths of a second as their ongoing rivalry in Alpine ...

WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — A warm aroma of melting wax curled out of the room where an unsung artisan of Alpine skiing was at work.

The trail led from a brightly lit basement, directly below a restaurant in a three-star hotel. It was a games room for most of the winter season in the Swiss ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A Korean unity deal for the Pyeongchang Olympics will bring 22 North Korean athletes across the border to South Korea, where they will march as one under a unification flag at the opening ceremony and compete together in one sport.

In the most symbolic ...

WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Placing second in a World Cup race on Friday, unheralded Russian skier Pavel Trikhichev looked a candidate for an Olympic medal next month.

Now he needs the International Olympic Committee to let him try.

Four weeks before the opening ceremony of the ...

BAD KLEINKIRCHHEIM, Austria (AP) — After a four-week break from racing, American standout Lindsey Vonn is returning to the Alpine skiing World Cup this weekend with an unusual mindset.

For the most successful female skier of all time, Vonn’s main priority at the first speed events of 2018 ...

SELVA DI VAL GARDENA, Italy (AP) — The end of a long drought for the German team could provide a big boost for Alpine skiing.

Early starter Josef Ferstl put down a nearly flawless run in a fog-interrupted super-G on Friday to become the first German man to win a World Cup speed event in 13 ...

PARIS (AP) — The French skiing federation says its athletes will compete in Lake Louise at the first World Cup speed events of the Alpine season despite the death of David Poisson earlier this week.

The 35-year-old Poisson died on Monday in a crash while training at the Canadian resort of ...

PARIS (AP) — The French Ski Federation says an early investigation into the death of David Poisson suggests the safety netting failed and he hit a tree.

The 35-year-old Poisson died on Monday while training at the Canadian resort of Nakiska, which staged Alpine skiing races of the 1988 ...