By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — After getting a devastating morning phone call that she had tested positive for COVID-19, Tahli Gill and her Australian mixed doubles curling teammate Dean Hewitt were out of the Beijing Olympics. A few hours later, another call. They ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Defending Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom at the Beijing Games on Monday and was disqualified from the event. Coming around a left-turn gate, she lost control, slid and fell on ...
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics: ___ The Russians have solidified their hold on the team figure skating gold medal, despite an unexpected fall by their pairs duo of Anastasia Mishina and Aleksander Galliamov, with two disciplines remaining at Capital Indoor ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Anna Hoffmann sat on a metal bar perched about as high as a 40-story building, rolled her shoulders back, took a deep breath and exhaled. The American ski jumper left the safe place, went down the in-run and took flight the ...
By DANIELLA MATAR Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Race favorite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was one of only three skiers to get a third run on the course before the final training session for the men's Olympic downhill was halted prematurely on Saturday. Kilde, two-time Olympic champion ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Earplugs may be USA Luge veteran Summer Britcher's secret weapon at the Beijing Olympics. That has nothing to do with noise. The start to a luge race is critical: Sliders, wearing gloves with tiny spikes on the bottom of their ...
