Olympics
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US men's hockey team in tune on and off ice at Olympics
Feb 15, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - David Quinn hears the music coming from the locker room and stops in his tracks. He needs to walk in to talk to his players but doesn't want to interrupt....
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Valieva skates into first place after Olympic short program
Feb 15, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING (AP) - Kamila Valieva skated off the Olympic ice with the lead in the women's short program and tears in her eyes. They were not tears of joy. The enormous press...
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Oak Park, Glen Ellyn speedskaters win bronze in men's team pursuit
Feb 15, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING - Japan had another Olympic gold medal in its sights. Just one turn to go. Then, the unthinkable happened. Nana Takagi lost her balance and crashed into the padd...
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Wafer-thin margin leads to Olympic silver for Eileen Gu
Feb 15, 2022 12:00 am - ZHANGJIAKOU, China - If Eileen Gu's latest performance is best gauged by how she came through big under pressure, or how she somehow keeps balancing three different and ...
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Joey Mantia snags 1st speedskating medal in 3rd Olympics
Feb 15, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING (AP) — Joey Mantia is finally taking home his first medal in his third Olympics. The 36-year-old American, along with Casey Dawson and Oak Park's Emery Lehman, e...
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How local Olympians fared: Team USA takes bronze in speedskatingFeb 15, 2022 12:00 am - Men's speed skating Team USA, featuring Glen Ellyn's Ethan Cepuran and Oak Park's Emery Lehman, finished third in the men's team pursuit and won the bronze medal. ...
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EXPLAINER: Competing for 'another' country is nothing new
Feb 14, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING - U.S.-born athletes have taken center stage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing - for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality-switching. Eil...
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'Very triggering for me': What two top skaters from suburbs say about Russian doping case
Feb 14, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING - Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug t...
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A roundup of gold medals from Monday
Feb 14, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING - A roundup of gold medals from Monday at the Beijing Games: BOBSLED WOMEN'S MONOBOB Former Canadian bobsledder Kaillie Humphries easily won the inaugural women'...
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Snowboarders say judging an issue at Olympic big air, too
Feb 14, 2022 12:00 am - BEIJING - Red Gerard, the happy-go-lucky American snowboarder who famously overslept the morning he won gold in Pyeongchang, never thought he'd be the one slamming the s...