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Olympic golds online, if not in competition
The Olympic motto may be “higher, faster, stronger.” But the way the 2018 Pyeongchang Games have transpired it may as well be meh, nah, really? Read more
Winter Olympics-related stories
The Olympic motto may be “higher, faster, stronger.” But the way the 2018 Pyeongchang Games have transpired it may as well be meh, nah, really? Read more
The Americans did it — they beat their rivals in the hardest of hard-fought finals. There may be little competition in women’s hockey outside the two final teams, but the Americans’ storyline is even richer than this thrilling victory that was the pinnacle of the Pyeongchang Olympics for the United States, which is in danger of finishing these games with its lowest medal count since 1998. Read more
Alina Zagitova won at the Olympics on Thursday night and became the youngest figure skating champion after American Tara Lipinski — and the first person from the Olympic Athletes from Russia to win a gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Games. Read more
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Canada’s topsy-turvy Olympics was dealt a heavy blow today as Germany shocked the two-time defending Olympic champion Canadians 4-3 in the men’s hockey semifinals. Read more
After an ugly start to the Pyeongchang Games, Suzanne Schulting surprisingly skated into the semifinals, then into today’s final. And then, the giddy 20-year-old Dutchwoman surprisingly reached the top of the podium on the last day of the short-track program. Read more
Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored in the first extra round of the first shootout tiebreaker in Olympic women’s hockey history to give the United States the gold medal with a 3-2 victory over Canada. Read more
NBC has apologized — or not — for a handful of gaffes seen as insults by South Koreans, by the Dutch, by women athletes, by ski fans. Read more
Lindsey Vonn cast a quick glance toward the sky after finishing what was likely her final Olympic downhill run, shrugged her shoulders after seeing her time and shook a friendly index finger at her good friend. Read more
Music has long had a place in Olympic competition. It has a unique role for snowboarders, many of whom not only listen to music to pump themselves up before the event, but also blast it during the actual competition to drown out the din around them. Read more
Nigeria was winning the Olympic women’s bobsled race. Yes, really. That sentence is 100 percent accurate — albeit with some massive reservations. Read more
Nobody in French history has won more Olympic gold medals than Martin Fourcade. Nobody has won more gold medals so far at the Pyeongchang Winter Games than the French biathlete. Yet Fourcade refused to make the night about himself. Read more
Speedskater Jorien ter Mors became the first woman to win Olympic medals in different sports at the same Winter Games. Read more
Karen Chen’s biggest obstacle at her first Winter Olympics has been overcoming painful shyness to participate in the popular pin-trading game. Now she would like to trade up for something a little bit shinier than an Olympic pin. Read more
After confirming that both of Alexander Krushelnitsky’s doping samples tested positive for the heart drug meldonium, the officials in charge of the Russian team at the Pyeongchang Olympics sought to blame just about anyone other than the curler himself. Read more
A Norwegian curler who lost out on the Olympic bronze medal to a Russian rival charged with doping said Tuesday he feels robbed of his moment of glory. Read more
Ecstasy, heartbreak and a crash. Read more
Hawaii-born Justin Kripps and Alexander Kopacz were thoroughly confused when they crossed the finish line. They knew they had just won an Olympic gold medal for Canada, and were puzzled why the rival Germans were running their way to celebrate. Read more
Back at the last Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin exuberantly talked about chasing five gold medals this time around. Now it turns out she’ll only enter three races at the 2018 Games. Read more
The United States will play for a gold medal in women’s hockey for the third straight Olympics. Read more
When word broke on Monday that a Russian Olympic curler was facing a doping charge, the curling world was floored. Not because of the tired cliche that curling isn’t a real sport (and therefore, why would a curler need to dope?) Read more
It was expected to be a coronation: snowboarder Shaun White, shredding the halfpipe in an epic performance that won him Olympic gold at Pyeongchang four years after a devastating loss in Sochi and just four months after a nasty fall during practice sent him to a hospital. Read more
