Norway Olympic Team
Ski Jumping’s top circuit is returning to the United States for the first time in nearly two decades.
GENEVA (AP) — Figure skating’s governing body has detailed a proposal to raise the athlete age limit to 17 at the Olympics and other international events.
Poland’s refusal to play its World Cup qualifier against Russia next month in response to that nation’s invasion of Ukraine gained wider support when Sweden followed with its own plans to protest to FIFA.
Russian skiers are not welcome to compete in Norway. The Nordic country’s ski federation call was made Saturday citing Russian “violations of international law and attacks on the Ukrainian people.”
Feb. 25
1940 — The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York.
1940 — The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York.
A pile of figure-skating rubble created by Russian misbehavior. A new Chinese champion — from California. An ace American skier who faltered and went home empty-handed.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Norwegian great Therese Johaug won her third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday and Jessie Diggins took silver for the best result by an American in an individual cross-country skiing event since 1976.
BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Sunday, Feb. 20, at the Beijing Games:
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ALPINE SKIING
MIXED TEAM PARALLEL
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ALPINE SKIING
MIXED TEAM PARALLEL
BEIJING (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin skied cleanly through the finish line four times Sunday. At the bottom of the parallel course, she hugged teammates and huddled with them under a bed comforter for warmth.
Arbitrators have rejected a last-ditch request by American figure skaters to have their silver medals awarded before the end of the Olympics.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — The Frenchman fared better in the first week. The Norwegian nailed it in the second.
BEIJING (AP) — The last Alpine skiing race of the Beijing Olympics was moved from Saturday to Sunday because of too-strong wind, making Mikaela Shiffrin wait to get one last chance to bring home a medal from China.
Eileen Gu turned the Beijing Olympics into her own personal playground. In the city. In the mountains. Spinning, flipping and flying at three different venues.
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China shattered their own world record for a short program at the Beijing Games on Friday night, giving them the narrowest of leads over Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov heading into the free skate to decide the Olympic champion.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — The penalty loops piled up as the wind wreaked havoc on the biathlon course.
BEIJING (AP) — Thomas Krol’s third attempt to make it to his first Olympics ended with a gold medal.
From the opening to the closing ceremony, flags are on display at the Olympics.
Athletes wrap themselves in their countries’ flags after winning, or wave them in pride as they take victory laps around ice rinks.
Athletes wrap themselves in their countries’ flags after winning, or wave them in pride as they take victory laps around ice rinks.
BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Friday, Feb. 18, at the Beijing Games:
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BIATHLON
MEN’S 15KM MASS START
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BIATHLON
MEN’S 15KM MASS START
BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Friday, Feb. 18, at the Beijing Games:
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BIATHLON
MEN’S 15KM MASS START
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BIATHLON
MEN’S 15KM MASS START
BEIJING (AP) — A United States team led by Mikaela Shiffrin is leaving the Beijing Olympics with just one of the 30 individual medals in Alpine skiing.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to skate at the Olympics in the short program partly because her age gives her extra rights as a “protected person” in a doping case.
If Mikaela Shiffrin exits the Beijing Olympics without a medal, it won’t be for lack of trying. Shiffrin plans to enter the team event, which would mean she’d compete in all six Alpine races this year.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Norway won Olympic gold in the Nordic combined team competition on Thursday, overcoming the COVID-related loss of Jarl Magnus Riiber.
BEIJING (AP) — From the cosmopolitan fashion of Milan to the Alpine chic of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the next Winter Olympics are being promoted as a feast of culture, cuisine and — obviously — sports.
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva ends in fourth place in the women’s individual figure skating event, which she competed in despite failing a pre-Olympics doping test.
BEIJING (AP) — John Shuster told himself not to look.
Three sheets away from the Americans’ final match of the Olympic curling round-robin, Norway was playing Italy.
Three sheets away from the Americans’ final match of the Olympic curling round-robin, Norway was playing Italy.
The United States is out of the men’s hockey tournament at the Olympics in stunning fashion after blowing a late lead.
BEIJING (AP) — Shred, white and flew.
Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.
Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.
BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Wednesday, Feb. 16, at the Beijing Games:
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MEN’S SLALOM
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MEN’S SLALOM
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Norwegian skier Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo completed a second straight Olympic cross-country sprint double on Wednesday and Victoria Carl of Germany barely edged Swedish rival Jonna Sundling at the line in the women’s race.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Elvira Oeberg skied out front, right where she wanted be, and stayed out front all the way to an Olympic gold medal.