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NHL players adapt to business-not-as-usual in Milan
MILAN, Italy -- National Hockey League stars are adapting to different rinks, rules and routines at the Milan Cortina Games, where rivals-turned-team mates will compete for gold beginning on Wednesday after the NHL's 12-year absence from the Olympics.,The tournament is a dream come true for players ...
US takes bronze in combined skiing; Mikaela Shiffrin misses podium
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Austria's Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber won women's team combined Olympic gold on Tuesday as overwhelming U.S. favorites Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on the podium in a major shock.,Germany's Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher took the silver, 0...
Ben Ogden (silver) wins 1st US men's cross-country skiing medal in 50 years in sprint
TESERO, Italy -- Norway's Johannes Klaebo won the men's classic cross-country ski sprint with ease on Tuesday for his seventh career Olympic gold medal, while Linn Svahn led a Swedish podium sweep in the women's race at the Milan Cortina Games.,Ben Ogden took silver in the men's race to give the U.S...
'No regrets': Lindsey Vonn speaks post-crash, needs multiple surgeries
Lindsey Vonn has a complex tibia fracture that will "require multiple surgeries to fix properly," Vonn said in an Instagram post Monday.,The post is Vonn's first public statement since her gruesome crash during Sunday's women's downhill skiing final at the Milan Cortina Games. Vonn had to be airlift...
Joy Dunne leads US women's hockey to rout of Switzerland
Caroline Harvey and Joy Dunne each collected a goal and two assists and Gwyneth Philips made 20 saves, fueling the United States to a 5-0 victory over Switzerland on Monday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.,Alex Carpenter scored for the third time in as many games and added an assist for the Americans ...
US curler Korey Dropkin thrills crowds at Milan Cortina Games
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- American curler Korey Dropkin's animated displays of emotion have been electrifying fans throughout the mixed doubles competition at the Milan Cortina Games, with the 30-year-old saying he is just trying to have fun and be true to himself.,On Monday, Dropkin and doubles p...
Ellie Kam, Danny O'Shea delighted to defy expectations, win US team title
MILAN, Italy -- Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea said they were thrilled to defy expectations and deliver a clean, season-best pairs performance at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, a result that proved pivotal as the United States edged Japan to win a second straight gold in the team event.,Kam and O'Shea s...
US beat Italy, set up mixed doubles gold-medal curling clash vs. Sweden
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The United States' Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse beat reigning Olympic and world champions Italy 9-8 in the mixed doubles semifinals at the Milan Cortina Games on Monday to set up a final against Sweden, who defeated in-form Britain 9-3.,The Americans edged the hard-foug...
U.S. athletes assert right to speak their minds
MILAN, Italy -- American athletes have the right to speak their minds, double Olympic snowboarding champion Chloe Kim said on Monday, stepping into a situation that has spilled from the Italian Alps into U.S. politics.,Her comments came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump labeled freestyle skier...
U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim says shoulder 'feeling good'
LIVIGNO, Italy -- American snowboarder Chloe Kim said her injured shoulder was "feeling good" as she prepares to attempt a brand-new halfpipe run at the Milano Cortina Olympics to claim a third straight gold medal.,The 25-year-old tore her labrum, a type of ?cartilage found ?in the shoulder joint, a...
Instead of broken records, Olympics dealing with broken medals
MILAN, Italy -- Whether gold, silver or bronze, there is one thing Milano Cortina Winter Olympics medals have in common: They can break.,Games organizers on Monday said they have launched an investigation into a spate of mishaps that have left Olympic medalists, including American downhill skiing ch...
Cortina smiles on US skier Breezy Johnson after previous pain
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olimpia della Tofane piste wrecked Breezy Johnson's Olympic downhill hopes four years ago but made amends on Sunday, even if the gold medal came apart minutes after being hung round her neck.,Johnson held up the separated components - the chunky medal,...
Lindsey Vonn situation sparks debate in Olympic skiing community
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The question of whether Lindsey Vonn should have started the Olympic downhill race on Sunday has expanded beyond a single athlete or race, exposing a deeper tension at the core of elite sport: who decides when an injured competitor is fit to compete and what message that ...
'Feels like yesterday': Time flies for Games veteran Sidney Crosby
MILAN, Italy -- Sidney Crosby waited 12 years to be back at the Olympics but the Canada captain said on Sunday that he sometimes felt as though no time had passed, as he stepped onto the ice at the Milan Cortina Games for the first time.,Future Hall of Famer Crosby is in the minority as a returning ...
US wins 2nd straight team figure skating gold over Japan, Italy
MILAN, Italy -- "Quad God" Ilia Malinin vaulted the United States above Japan and to the top of the podium at the Milan Cortina Games on Sunday to cap a thrilling team competition that saw host Italy seize bronze.,With the U.S. and Japan tied going into the men's free skate, the 21-year-old Malinin ...
Ilia Malinin rises to pressure of Team USA's golden hopes
MILAN, Italy -- Ilia Malinin stepped onto the ice knowing figure skating's Olympic team event hinged on him - and then delivered just enough to haul the United States past Japan and onto the top step of the podium at the Milano Cortina Games.,Italy, feeding off a roaring home crowd, claimed a hard-e...
Ilia Malinin powers US past Japan to team figure skating gold in Milan
MILAN, Italy -- Ilia Malinin lifted the United States above Japan to the top of the podium of the figure skating team event at the Milan Cortina Games on Sunday, where home team Italy captured bronze.,With the U.S. and Japan tied going into the men's free skate, the 21-year-old Malinin was not at hi...
Austrian snowboarder wins parallel giant slalom in 5th Olympics
LIVIGNO, Italy - Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl raced to a second straight gold medal in the men's parallel giant slalom on Sunday at the Milan Cortina Games, capping a glittering career on the slopes at his fifth Olympics.,In the women's event, Czech snowboarder Zuzana Maderova triumphed after ...
Lindsey Vonn crashes in downhill; American Breezy Johnson wins gold
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's bid to win Olympic downhill gold with a ruptured ACL lasted less than 20 seconds on Sunday as the American great suffered a horrific crash early in her run.,Vonn, 41, whose battle to reach the starting line despite her knee injury dominated the o...
Lindsey Vonn says she's already won whatever happens in Sunday's downhill
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Lindsey Vonn has declared herself a winner come what may in the last Olympic downhill of her stellar career.,The 41-year-old U.S. great will try and beat the odds of age and injury on her favourite Olimpia della Tofane piste on Sunday, hoping to become the oldest Alpine s...