Olympics
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Alpine skiing primer: Olympic showcase of speed and thrills
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Alpine skiing is fast and dangerous and offers must-see races at the Pyeongchang Games, which open Friday and close Feb. 25. The downhills - ski racing's e...
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North, South Korea share the ice in figure skating
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - GANGEUNG, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korean figure skaters shared the same ice Monday for the first time at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The North's pair of Ryom Ta...
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Linguistic divide poses problem to Korea Olympic hockey team
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea face a widening linguistic divide after 70 years of division, and that is a challenge for the rivals' first-ever join...
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Frenzel aiming for gold in Nordic combined in Pyeongchang
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - Five-time World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist Eric Frenzel will be aiming to continue his dominance of Nordic combined at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The 29-year-ol...
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Shiffrin set up as Olympics star; Vonn, Hirscher big, too
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - If Mikaela Shiffrin continues to race as well as she has been, she is setting herself up to be the biggest star of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Not just of Alpine skiing, b...
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Germany, again, will be the team to catch in Olympic luge
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - There's some sort of mystical power when it comes to Germany and luge. Germany has more sliding tracks than any other nation, plus always seems to be ahead of the rest o...
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Canada women shooting for 5th straight Olympic hockey gold
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - Four years is a long time to wait for a second chance. For some, the chance for golden redemption has been much longer. The United States women's hockey team has not won...
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IOC rejects 15 Russian athletes whose bans were lifted
Feb 05, 2018 6:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) - The International Olympic Committee rejected a request on Monday to invite 15 Russians to the Pyeongchang Winter Games just days after th...
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Many big-name skaters headed to Winter Games for final time
Feb 04, 2018 6:00 am - Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford are focused squarely on the Pyeongchang Olympics, where the pairs team from Canada will contend for a gold medal inside Gangneung Ice Are...
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IOC chief calls CAS ruling 'extremely disappointing'
Feb 04, 2018 6:00 am - PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) - IOC President Thomas Bach has strongly criticized the midweek ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that lifted Olympic doping ban...