IRON RIVER, Mich. (AP) — A 40-year-old snowboarder who won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics was honored Monday with a parade in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Nick Baumgartner walked the streets of Iron River, population 2,800, with the medal around his neck and his dog at his side, ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — If Eileen Gu's latest performance is best gauged by how she came through big under pressure, or how she somehow keeps balancing three different and difficult events with the demands of her burgeoning celebrity, then her ...
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Wrter BEIJING (AP) — Russian teenager Kamila Valieva was on the ice for a final run-through of her short program hours before one of the most-anticipated events of the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday. Valieva looked confident and calm in a glittering purple ...
By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Little more than a week ago, the questions from non-Chinese reporters at daily Olympics briefings were about sensitive things involving China — tennis player Peng Shuai, the government's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the northwest, the ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — What better way to prepare for an Olympic downhill race than by watching Lindsey Vonn. Swiss skier Corinne Suter checked out some old videos of the sport's most successful downhiller before her run at the Beijing Games on Tuesday and then ...
BEIJING (AP) — A roundup of gold medals from Tuesday, Feb. 15, at the Beijing Games: ___ ALPINE SKIING WOMEN'S DOWNHILL Corinne Suter, a 27-year-old Swiss skier who injured both of her legs early in the season, edged Italian Sofia Goggia by 0.16 seconds to win gold in the women's ...
