By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — NHL players are not at the Olympics. NHL ice is, and that should make for better hockey. The Olympic tournament is taking place on 200-by-85-foot surfaces for the first time since the 2010 Vancouver Games, when Canada beat the United ...
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — When so many around her were crashing or getting penalized, Arianna Fontana kept her cool. Just getting to the Beijing Olympics had been hard enough. Winning her 10th career medal in short track speedskating may have seemed easy by ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Nathan Chen had just shattered the world record for a figure skating short program, even throwing a defiant fist in a rare display of emotion, when he was asked how he'd spend the next 48 hours before his long-awaited Olympic ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Taylor Fletcher almost ended his Nordic combined career shortly after his third trip to the Olympics in 2018. Fletcher's father died of Lou Gehrig's disease, his stepfather had a near-death experience in a bike accident and he ...
By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — It was going to take more than a one-goal deficit to rattle Brianne Jenner and the Canadians in their long-running cross-border rivalry against the Americans, which resumed Tuesday at the Beijing Olympics. Rather than wilt, Canada ...
By SALLY HO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Donovan Carrillo of Mexico advanced to the free skate portion of the figure skating competition at the Beijing Games on Tuesday, a first for the country, which hadn't had an Olympic skater in three decades. All it took was the best ...
