By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — One was a figure skater. One was a hockey player. Another was — shh, don't tell anyone! — "never a hockey guy" and always preferred skiing and mountain biking over the national sport. One thing that the new generation of Canadian ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Long before the global pandemic upended sports and the world in general, the 2022 Winter Olympics faced unsettling problems. It started with the fact that hardly anybody wanted to host them. Beijing ended up solving that problem, but ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers BEIJING (AP) — Frans Nielsen played in almost 1,000 NHL games and knew this would be his final season playing hockey. It was now or never for Denmark to reach the Olympics. Nielsen and his teammates finally got over the last ...
Nordic combined star Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway has tested positive for COVID-19. The 24-year-old Riiber is No. 2 in the World Cup rankings after a three-year run of being the top-ranked athlete in the sport that combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing. He fell just short of a medal ...
By ASHOK SHARMA Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India will not attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, after one of the torchbearers reportedly chosen by Chinese authorities riled up New Delhi's anger. India's foreign affairs spokesman Arindam Bagchi on ...
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Before her qualifying round, moguls skier Jaelin Kauf put on a pair of necklaces — one silver, the other gold — custom-made by her mom. Then, she went out and put herself in the mix for more hardware this weekend. The ...
