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Triple axels don't frighten Mirai Nagasu: 'If I fall, I'll take the fall.'

By Liz Clarke The Washington Post
Feb 18, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Since making history as the first American woman to land a triple axel in Olympic competition Feb. 11, Mirai Nagasu has fielded request for date...
The best skiers in the world agree: Marcel Hirscher is THE best skier in the world

By Rick Maese The Washington Post
Feb 18, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Superlatives are suddenly in short supply around the Olympic Alpine venues. At the base of the hill, they're not debating whether Marcel Hirsc...
Constable: Disabled skaters save Olympic-style competition

By Burt Constable
Feb 17, 2018 12:00 am - Some kids, and probably a few adults, cried. They couldn't believe Special Olympics Illinois, citing dwindling numbers of ice skaters, proclaimed that last year's annual...
In the Olympic reality show, the co-stars are named 'Mom' and 'Dad'

Barry Svrluga The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - The mom already had hugged the dad, and already had received congratulations from people to her right and her left and behind her, and then sh...
Jacobellis still doesn't have Olympic gold, placing fourth in snowboard cross

Chico Harlan The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - BONGPYEONG, South Korea - All around her, right before the finish line, there was chaos. Later, she would say she saw shadows all around her. She saw other riders in her...
What to watch from the Pyeongchang Olympics on Day 7

By MAGAN CRANE
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - Associated Press PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Happy New Year! South Korea is celebrating its biggest holiday Friday with fireworks, cultural events and more curling. There...
Curling fan etiquette 101: Babies, yes. Music, no. Mumbling, yes. Chanting, no.

Chuck Culpepper The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea - Does the world, in all its variety, contain any curling hooligans? Are there ever curling riots or, at the very least, episodic bursts of curlin...
Daly can leave skeleton at peace this time

Chelsea Janes The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - DAEGWALLYEONG, South Korea - The night before what will probably be the final runs of his Olympic skeleton career placed him 16th in the men's skeleton final Friday, Ame...
Like many great champions, Mikaela Shiffrin is compelling, and human, in defeat

Jerry Brewer The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Mikaela Shiffrin, paragon of success, is a mysterious treasure, a wondrous skier who exists for us to marvel but not understand. At her best, ...
The insanity of ski jumping: Where on earth did this sport come from?

Michael S. Rosenwald The Washington Post
Feb 16, 2018 12:00 am - Kevin Bickner, an Olympian from Wauconda, pointed to his brain and stated the obvious. "You have to have something loose up here," he told Minnesota's Star Tribune the o...

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