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Olympic trio visits Norge, where ski jump dreams began
By Burt Constable
Apr 14, 2018 9:17 PM - Even with his "USA" backpack, 21-year-old Wauconda native Kevin Bickner looks like just another person in Fox River Grove, trudging his way through the cold, wet wind. That changes the moment Bickner walks into the Norge Ski Club, where the Olympic ski jumper is hailed as a hero, signs autographs and poses for photographs.
How a skier managed to compete at Olympics despite not being very good
By Des Bieler
Feb 20, 2018 10:10 AM - Elizabeth Swaney is not bad at skiing, not at all. But she is not very good, either, and certainly not Olympic-caliber in the halfpipe. So how, at age 33 no less, did she manage to make her way into the field at that event in the Winter Games?
Like many great champions, Mikaela Shiffrin is compelling, and human, in defeat
Jerry Brewer
Feb 16, 2018 8:24 AM - Mikaela Shiffrin, paragon of success, is a mysterious treasure, a wondrous skier who exists for us to marvel but not understand. At her best, she's superhuman. She's inexplicable. She does compelling things, but she's not always a compelling character because she's too perfect.
'I hit rock bottom yesterday': Injury costs skier his Olympic dream. Again.
By Barry Svrluga
Feb 15, 2018 8:47 AM - American Tommy Biesemeyer, who missed the Sochi Games because of a knee injury, injured an ankle during a training run and needs surgery. He pulls no punches about the letdown.
Mikaela Shiffrin snaps out of her recent slump and puts Olympics on notice
By Barry Svrluga
Feb 15, 2018 10:13 AM - Each time Mikaela Shiffrin takes the hill, history is threatened, and gold is possible to grasp.
How to watch freestyle skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Tik Root
Feb 11, 2018 1:00 AM - Freestyle skiing is a catchall category of sorts for the non-Alpine, non-Nordic skiing events. What are all the different events? How does the judging work?
How to watch cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Tracee Hamilton
Feb 10, 2018 1:00 AM - What is cross-country skiing? What are the different events? Who are some athletes to watch?
How to watch Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Tik Root
Feb 10, 2018 1:00 AM - What is Alpine skiing? What's the difference between all the events? Whom should I watch? (And where's Bode Miller?)
Lindsey Vonn is skiing for more than herself in Pyeongchang
Barry Svrluga
Feb 9, 2018 10:43 AM - Lindsey Vonn is a grown woman of enormous professional accomplishment and a personal life that has played out in public over the past decade-and-a-half. She was an Olympic champion, in the conversation as the best Alpine skier in history, and then her body was broken. Friday, as she prepared for her fourth -- and likely final -- Olympics, she sobbed.
Cross-country skier Jessie Diggins is poised to break a long Olympic drought
By Chelsea Janes
Feb 8, 2018 8:50 AM - Ranked third in the world, Jessie Diggins could become the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in her sport.

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