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Doubles luge Olympian Mortensen retires
Matt Mortensen, a two-time Olympian in doubles luge and a five-time national champion, announced his retirement from sliding Wednesday after a career that spanned 20 years.
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Tavares to coach USA Luge through 2022
Bill Tavares, who has helped the United States win sliding medals in every Winter Olympics since 2002, will stay on as coach through the 2022 Beijing Games.
Olympic Sports
Saturday preview: Red Gerard eyes second Pyeongchang medal, U.S. men in first curling final
Saturday's highlights in Pyeongchang: Red Gerard hopes the big air competition will bring him more hardware, and the U.S. men's curling team plays its first Olympic final.
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Thursday preview: Shiffrin vs. Vonn in Alpine combined, USA-Canada showdown in women's hockey final
Thursday's highlights in Pyeongchang include a Mikaela Shiffrin-Lindsey Vonn showdown in Alpine combined, while the U.S. takes on Canada in the women's ice hockey final.
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Tuesday preview: Virtue and Moir look for second gold, U.S. men's hockey vies for quarters
Tuesday's highlights in Pyeongchang: Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir look to win their second Olympic gold of the Games, the U.S. men's hockey team plays for a spot in the quarters and Germany's Laura Dahlmeier eyes a fourth biathlon medal.
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W2W4 in Pyeongchang: Kenworthy eyes first Olympic gold; Hirscher hopes for GS gold
Sunday's highlights in Pyeongchang include Gus Kenworthy's run for his first Olympic gold in men's ski slopestyle and Austrian alpine skier Marcel Hirscher's quest for gold in giant slalom.
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W2W4 at Pyeongchang: Nathan Chen looks to rebound, Lindsey Vonn makes debut
Saturday's highlights in Pyeongchang include Nathan Chen, who hopes to rebound from a disastrous short program, while Lindsey Vonn makes her Pyeongchang debut in super-G.
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Germany golden again in Olympic luge relay
Germany has capped the luge portion of the Pyeongchang Olympics in style, winning gold in the team relay; it was a history-making win for Natalie Geisenberger, who now has five Olympic medals.
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W2W4 in Pyeongchang: Shiffrin eyes second slalom gold, Jacobellis hopes for snowboard cross magic
Thursday's highlights in Pyeongchang include USA's Mikaela Shiffrin, who will go for her second straight slalom gold, while the U.S. men's hockey team will look to shake off their rocky start.
Luge
'The Tobys' repeat as doubles luge champions
The German team of Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt, who have been dubbed "the Tobys," won the gold medal on Wednesday in men's doubles luge.
Bobsled
For the sliders in Pyeongchang, they have to work 9 to thrive
It has been a common theme in South Korea that lugers, skeleton racers and bobsledders are concerned about the ninth turn of the Olympic sliding course.
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W2W4: USA takes on Canada in women's hockey; Germany sets sights on mixed team luge gold
Thursday's highlights in Pyeongchang: The U.S. women's hockey team will look to keep its winning streak going against Canada, while Germany will eye a second straight mixed team relay luge gold.
Luge
Geisenberger defends women's luge gold
Natalie Geisenberger refuses to call herself the best women's luge athlete ever.
Luge
American luger Sweeney crashes in final run
American luger Emily Sweeney crashed out of the Pyeongchang Olympics on Tuesday, losing control of her sled midway through the final run of the competition.
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W2W4 at Winter Olympics: Mikaela Shiffrin, Shaun White eye Olympic history
Wednesday's highlights in Pyeongchang: America's 22-year-old skiing star will look to win her second Olympic gold, and a snowboarding icon takes to the skies seeking redemption.
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Winter Games: India's Shiva Keshavan finishes 34th in luge
Shiva Keshavan, taking part in his sixth and last Olympics, finished 34th in the men's luge singles event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
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W2W4 @ Winter Olympics: First alpine medal to be awarded; Biney looks to make 500 final
Tuesday's highlights in Pyeongchang: America's 17-year-old snowboard star will look to win her first Olympic gold, and Maame Biney tries to reach the women's 500-meter final for Team USA.
Luge
The one Olympic finish that no one was expecting (yes, in luge)
It was luge legend Felix Loch's race to win. But an unlikely trio, including American Chris Mazdzer, made their own history in the Olympic men's singles final.
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Mazdzer wins men's luge singles silver for U.S.
Chris Mazdzer has given USA Luge its first men's singles medal in history, and the reign of Germany's Felix Loch as Olympic champion came to a sudden and shocking end with David Gleirscher claiming the gold.
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W2W4 @ Winter Olympics: Canada poised for figure skating team gold
Monday's highlights in Pyeongchang: Canada looks to lock up figure skating team gold and the Dutch skate for another speed sweep.
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W2W4 on Sunday: Men's slopestyle, figure skating team event on tap
Alpine events kick off with men's downhill, while other medals will be handed out in men's slopestyle and women's moguls on Sunday at the Winter Olympics.
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Tonga's Pita Taufatofua steals the show, again
What was the biggest question leading into the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang? Everyone wanted to know if Tongan Pita Taufatofua would show up shirtless and oiled up. He did not disappoint.
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Legend of the luge
Shiva Keshavan heads for his sixth Winter Olympics, and towards the finishing line of a career whose greatness is measured in his grit.
Speedskating
Shani Davis tweet rips flag-bearer coin toss
It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games -- but a tweet changed that feeling.
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Luger Hamlin picked as Team USA flag-bearer
Erin Hamlin will carry the U.S. flag into Friday's opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Olympics.
Medal Tracker
Total Medal Leaders
- 39
NOR - 31
GER - 29
CAN
- Gold14NORGER
14 CAN11 - Silver14NORGER
10 CAN8 - Bronze11NORCAN
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OAR9
Total Medal Leaders
- 5Bjørgen
- 4
Kalla - 4Nilsson
- Gold3Klæbo
Fourcade3 Bjørgen2 - Silver3KallaBolshunov
3 Nilsson2 - Bronze2BjørgenJohansson
2 Bescond2
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USA Diving CEO Lee Walsi Johnson to leave after 16 months on job
USA Diving said Monday that Lee Walsi Johnson will be leaving on Oct. 5 and that it will announce plans for new leadership in the upcoming weeks.
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WADA president defends Russian anti-doping reinstatement
World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie defends the decision to reinstate Russia's suspended drug-fighting operation, after criticism from athletes and anti-doping leaders.
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Breanna Stewart leads U.S. to World Cup win over China
Breanna Stewart scored 21 of her 23 points in the second half, and A'ja Wilson added 20 to help the United States beat China 100-88 on Sunday in the second day of the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
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Cities deny access of softball facilities to controversial former Auburn coach Clint Myers and sons
Two Alabama cities have decided not to lease public facilities to Clint Myers, the controversial former Auburn softball coach, who apparently was planning to use fields to coach China's national team.
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Yuzuru Hanyu wins in return from ankle injury at Autumn Classic
Two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu made a successful return from an ankle injury by winning the Autumn Classic figure skating competition on Saturday. Canada's Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won the ice dance with a new program.
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U.S. routs Senegal in FIBA Women's World Cup opener
Tied midway through the second quarter, the U.S. went on a 20-6 run en route to a 87-67 victory over Senegal in their FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup opener.
