Olympics
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Fernandez chasing Spain's 1st Olympic figure skating medal
Jan 22, 2018 6:00 am - VALDEMORO, Spain (AP) - It was still dark on a cold December morning when Javier Fernandez arrived for practice at a modest rink. Only a few local skaters were at the ve...
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Meyers Taylor still remembers the gold that slipped away
Jan 22, 2018 6:00 am - LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) - The record books and the result sheets and the photos from the medal podium all make it very clear. Officially, U.S. bobsledder Elana Meyers Tay...
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CAS opens week of cases for 39 Russians banned from Olympics
Jan 22, 2018 6:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The Court of Arbitration of Sport opened a full week of appeal hearings on Monday for 39 Russian athletes disqualified from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for tak...
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Austrian ski family eyes another Olympic slalom medal
Jan 22, 2018 6:00 am - SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) - When Marcel Hirscher goes after his elusive Olympic gold medal in Pyeongchang next month, a member of the Matt family could stand in his way o...
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'Executed' North Korean pop diva takes Olympic spotlight
Jan 22, 2018 6:00 am - PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Just a few years ago, she was reportedly executed by a North Korean firing squad. Now, Pyongyang's top pop diva is a senior ruling party of...
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Vonn alters schedule to add last-minute testing for Olympics
Jan 22, 2018 6:00 am - CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) - Lindsey Vonn wants to regain the downhill gold medal at the Olympics so desperately that she has been willing to sacrifice much of the Wo...
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Constable: 'There's nothing disabled' about sled hockeyJan 22, 2018 4:30 am - Muscular, aggressive and one of the fastest players on the team, USA hockey forward Brody Roybal of Northlake skates toward the loose puck. Another player gets there fir...
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USA Luge's Summer Britcher peaking as Pyeongchang Games near
Jan 21, 2018 6:00 am - Summer Britcher seems to be peaking at precisely the right time. Britcher won gold for the U.S. in the women's World Cup luge sprint race at Lillehammer, Norway on Sunda...
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Podium finishes earn Kenworthy, Goepper return to Olympics
Jan 21, 2018 6:00 am - MAMMOTH, Calif. (AP) - Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper each made the U.S. Olympic slopestyle team by finishing second and third in the season's final qualifying contest -...
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US hockey GM dies unexpectedly at Colorado Springs home
Jan 21, 2018 6:00 am - Longtime USA Hockey executive and U.S. Olympic men's hockey general manager Jim Johannson died unexpectedly Sunday at age 53, shocking the sport less than three weeks be...