advertisement

Log Out

Olympics

American Mikaela Shiffrin couldn't outski her own expectations - or ours

Barry Svrluga The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - BUKPYEONG, South Korea - From this vantage point, standing in the snow with her skis off and both the race hill and the Pyeongchang Olympics behind her, maybe it makes s...
They left their slower teammate behind, now fans wants them banned

Chelsea Janes The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Noh Seon-Yeong's tears have mobilized the hosts of the Pyeongchang Olympics, marring the Games for a nation that prides itself on sportsmanship ...
Mikaela Shiffrin completes her Olympics with a silver in the combined

Rick Maese The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - BUKPYEONG, South Korea - In so many ways, the final day of Mikaela Shiffrin's Olympics came to embody all the days and all the emotions that preceded it. Frustration sha...
What to watch: Wednesday's Olympic schedule

The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - Wednesday, Feb. 21 What to watch: Marcel Hirscher of Austria, the dominant skier of these Winter games, chases another gold medal when he competes in the slalom. Mi...
Lindsey Vonn's Olympic downhill farewell a lovely shade of bronze

Rick Maese The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - BUKPYEONG, South Korea - For one final time, Lindsey Vonn stared down the course for an Olympic downhill, the curves and bumps not unlike her own winding journey. For on...
Analysis: Stop treating extreme sport athletes as second-class Olympians

Jerry Brewer The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - If you're addicted to sports misery, you can't just look at the United States' modest Winter Olympics medal haul thus far. No, that's not depr...
It's Russians, then everybody else in figure skating short program

Liz Clarke The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Even before the first figure-skater's blade carved a mark on the surface of the Gangneung Ice Arena in the women's short program, the question w...
Olympic bronze doesn't begin to tell the story of Lindsey Vonn

Barry Svrluga The Washington Post
Feb 21, 2018 12:00 am - BUKPYEONG, South Korea - Her body still functions, and because her mind has never changed, she can still will all that scar tissue down a ski hill at harrowing speeds. B...
Carpentersville skater Tennell's Olympic performance doesn't disappoint home crowd

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Feb 20, 2018 12:00 am - For Emily Soto, watching her onetime rival and now best friend make it to the Olympic arena evoked a feeling beyond description. "I'm blown away," said Soto, 21, just a ...
Four American friends will vie for three medals in freestyle halfpipe

Rick Maese The Washington Post
Feb 20, 2018 12:00 am - BONGPYEONG, South Korea - Four of the best halfpipe skiers in the world will battle for the same thing here at the Olympics, but there's little that's cutthroat about th...

Showing 521-530 of 3,966 previous next