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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...
What to watch: Tuesday's Olympic schedule

The Washington Post
Feb 20, 2018 12:00 am - Tuesday, Feb. 20 What to watch: An injury sidelined Lindsey Vonn before the Sochi Olympics. Now, the 33-year-old will try to become the oldest woman in Alpine skiin...
Shibutanis prove siblings can succeed in sometimes-steamy ice dance

Chelsea Janes The Washington Post
Feb 20, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - The night before they won their first Olympic medal, Alex and Maia Shibutani were frustrated. They skated what they believed to be their best sh...
Suburban ski jumper places 20th in large hill event, accomplishing Olympic goal

By Lauren Rohr
Feb 20, 2018 12:00 am - When Kevin Bickner looks back years from now on his first experience at the Olympics, he'll always remember the overwhelming feeling of standing atop the large hill in P...
How a skier managed to compete at Olympics despite not being very good

By Des Bieler The Washington Post
Feb 20, 2018 12:00 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 sh...

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