By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Olympic routine for Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor has always been the same. They would arrive, train, compete, win a medal and go home. Such was the case in 2010. And again in 2014. And again in 2018. Not this ...
By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — American assistant captain Hilary Knight calls it "a beautiful rivalry." Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin sums it up as "very fun." Don't be fooled by the pleasantries. One of international sports' fiercest and longest-running ...
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Mathilde Gremaud has long known that every point counts in her sport. At the Beijing Olympics, every fraction of a point counts, too. The Swiss freestyle skier who squeaked into Tuesday's slopestyle final by a mere .36 points ...
By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Anna Gasser hardly felt like the favorite in Beijing, even as the only woman to ever win an Olympic snowboarding big air contest. The way her competition — with an average age of 21 — has been pushing the sport's boundaries, the ...
By The Associated Press undefined Reaction from the Olympics and social media after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was cleared to compete in Beijing despite failing a drug test in December. The ruling was made Monday by a Court of Arbitration for Sport panel sitting at the Olympics. ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — The most difficult moment for Alpine racer Sofia Goggia — aside, of course, from the crash itself that partially tore a ligament in her left knee and put what Italy's team called a "minor fracture" in that leg — came when she put ...
