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NBC Ad Interruption Almost Ruins Gold Medal Winner's Watch Party
Mikaela Shiffrin kept her nerve and won gold in ladies' slalom, but the same can't quite be said for her family members watching at home here in the U.S. As we noted in that piece, NBC Live Extra put up an ad that covered up the first part of her run; that ad affected everyone, and it's no surprise ...
Why Bode Miller Mattered
In a way, it's fitting for Bode Miller's Olympic career to end like this, if this is indeed the end. Having re-injured his knee in Wednesday's giant slalom, in which he finished 20th, the 36-year-old absented himself from the last ski race of the Sochi Olympics, today's slalom. He'd spent his career...
How 18-Year-Old Mikaela Shiffrin Kept Her Nerve And Won Slalom Gold
This morning, 18-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin became the youngest skier to win gold in the Olympic slalom. Ever. How? She took on a course with the kind of calm usually shown by athletes who have been on the race circuit for, well, as long as she's been alive....
This Is One Ugly Photo Finish
Today's first ski cross quarterfinal heat featured a big crash just before the finish, taking out three skiers and allowing Switzerland's Armin Niederer to cross first. But only second place would join him in the semis—who could slide the fastest?...
Ted Ligety Is Skidding His Way To A Skiing Revolution
Ted Ligety is all about technique. He's precise. Controlled. Clean. He's also a complete risk-taker. Each of those so-called precise, controlled, clean turns? They're perpetually a razor's-edge (or a millisecond) from disaster. ...
Japanese Skier Breaks Arm In Crash; NBC Video Says He "Lands Safely"
Japanese skier Taihei Kato suffered a broken arm on a run in the Nordic combined large hill event earlier today when he lost his balance after landing, hitting the ground hard. NBC's packaging of the highlight makes it sound less painful than it was....
NBC Wrings Every Last Tear Out Of Bode Miller
After winning bronze in the men's super-G, Bode Miller gave a post-race interview to NBC's Christin Cooper. She asked him about his brother, who passed away suddenly last year. He struggled through an answer. She asked him again. He began to break down, a single tear running down his cheek. She aske...
Norwegian Olympian's Mom Doesn't Hold Back On Criticizing Her Son
Norwegian cross-country skier Martin Johnsrud Sundby had a poor showing in the 15-kilometer classical race, and his mother knew it. Gro Johnsrud Langslet doesn't sugarcoat Olympic failure, dammit....
Super-G Course "A Disaster," 18 Different Skiers Fail To Reach Finish
The ladies' super-G competition today in Sochi was a farce, with seven of the first eight competitors failing to reach the finish and a total of 18 registering DNFs on a terrible course covered with what can only generously be called "snow."...
Peruvian Finishes 30 Minutes Behind Winner, Who Meets Him At Finish
Your feel-good Olympic story of the day features Roberto Carcelen, cross country skier and Peru's first-ever Winter Olympian. Carcelen broke a rib in training but elected to compete in today's 15K Classic anyway; he struggled through the course and finished dead last. ...
Do Dominica's Adorable Skiers Deserve A Gold Medal In Tax Dodging?
There's plenty about the Winter Olympics to make a guy root for global warming: the so-called "Olympic tourists," for example. That's a tag applied to folks who have enough money and leisure time to make up for whatever talent deficiency kept them from competing for their real home country in the Ga...
Torin Yater-Wallace Is The Stoner-Philosopher Of The Olympics
There is no one in the world I would rather have to guide me through the intricacies of a food court than an 18-year-old freeskier from Colorado. Torin Yater-Wallace, now America's greatest sporting hero after raiding the Olympic Village McDonald's for a pile of cheeseburgers, was tracked down by Ya...
Olympic Skier Todd Lodwick Videobombs His Own Injury Report
NBC reporter Randy Moss was reporting on Nordic combine skier Todd Lodwick's injuries when—hey, there he is! Todd Lodwick really gives you that insider perspective on only the most up-to-date Todd Lodwick news. You can watch the entire report here....
Composite Video Of Downhill Skiing Runs That Ended In Gold-Medal Tie
Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze of Slovenia made Olympic history today when they turned in identical winning times of 1:41.57 in the ladies' downhill. That had never happened before in alpine skiing, which measures to the hundredth of the second. We wanted to know what it would look like...