By DANIELLA MATAR Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — On their second trip down a previously unknown Olympic hill, the world's top skiers had to deal with strong winds. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde handled it the best, posting the fastest time Friday in the second men's downhill training ...
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Two-time defending Olympic champion Jamie Anderson and her fellow snowboarders will soon be riding right past the Great Wall — a snow replica of it, anyway. The course makers at the Beijing Games built a carved-out, ...
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Russian women's hockey team has gone from quarantine to an Olympic win in two days. The Russians were in isolation in the Olympic Village from Monday to Wednesday and couldn't train after one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks ...
By PAT GRAHAM and HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writers Breezy Johnson knew she was having the best ski racing season of her career as the Beijing Olympics neared. The 26-year-old from Wyoming, never better than third in any World Cup race, put together three consecutive runner-up finishes ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Eileen Gu was 8 when she started teaching young wannabe daredevils how to do backflips on trampolines during her summer visits to China. "Back then, I would meet essentially the entire Chinese ski community at once," Gu said. ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Six weeks after the NHL pulled out of the Olympics and three weeks since USA Hockey finalized the roster, the full team was finally on the ice together Friday for the first time. Well, almost the full team. Star college defenseman ...
