By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — It's never been easy for U.S. skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender. Then again, her resume suggests that she's made it look easy. Uhlaender is a five-time Olympian, joining snowboarders Shaun White and Lindsey Jacobellis and curling's John ...
By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Petra Vlhova added an Olympic gold medal to her growing list of achievements, winning the women's slalom at the Beijing Games on Wednesday. It was Slovakia's first Olympic medal in Alpine skiing and helped Vlhova atone for her poor ...
By JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Birk Ruud landed at the bottom of Big Air Shougang and unfurled a Norwegian flag, floating the blue and red Nordic cross in the breeze behind him. A camera came close, and he pulled down his sleeve to reveal a gold bracelet — a gift ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Scott Hamilton and Brian Boitano have been waiting more than a decade for someone to join them in one of the most exclusive clubs in American figure skating: Olympic champions. The wait could be down to a day. With one clean ...
By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Lindsey Jacobellis captured the United States' first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday, riding hard to the line in her snowboardcross final a full 16 years after showboating near the finish cost her ...
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Columnist BEIJING (AP) — When Mikaela Shiffrin careened off the course, another expected gold medal slipping away before she hardly got started, the announcers from NBC let her have it. "One of the bigger shockers in Olympic alpine skiing history," ...
