(AP) — 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, but the entire Winter Games.
To put it simply: She is about as close to unbeatable as can be right now.
Shiffrin, ...
(AP) — The Maple Leaf could be on frequent display above the medals podium at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Canada heads to South Korea with the strongest overall figure skating team and with medal contenders in all four individual events. That’s well ahead of expectations for the United ...
(AP) — Marit Bjoergen is heading to the Winter Games in South Korea looking for a three-peat of her three-peat.
Bjoergen, the most successful women’s cross-country skier in history, has won three gold medals in each of the past two Winter Games and will be looking to make it three in a ...
(AP) — The big oval is going to get a lot more crowded at the Pyeongchang Games.
Speedskating is spicing itself up with the Olympic debut of the mass start, featuring up to 24 skaters racing 16 laps at the same time. That’s quite a change from the traditional time trial format in which ...
(AP) — The bobsledders may push harder. The speedskaters may go faster. The ski jumpers soar higher.
Yet no one will work longer hours at the Pyeongchang Olympics than American curlers Matt and Becca Hamilton.
By qualifying for both the new mixed doubles discipline and the ...
(AP) — Ask U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim what she thinks the “Chloe Kim Story” really is this year and she hesitates just a moment, before deciding on “The California girl that went to the Olympics.”
It’s perfect, easy, and oh-so-fitting for the 17-year-old from Torrance, ...