GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Ryan Donato would love to clone himself so he could play at the Olympics and Harvard at the same time. He has to be content will trying to win a medal for the United States. Donato is one of a handful of players and coaches in the Olympic men’s hockey […]
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France’s Fourcade nips Schempp for gold in mass start
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — France’s Martin Fourcade slammed his ski pole into the snow in disgust after sliding through the finish line, thinking he’d just lost another Olympic gold medal to a photo finish. But upon further review, replays showed Fourcade’s left boot crossed the line a few centimeters ahead of Germany’s Simon Schempp, […]
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Mikaela Shiffrin admits she felt the pressure — from herself
? PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Racing is the fun part. Losing is the hard part. And moving on? For Mikaela Shiffrin, that often feels like the impossible part. “I’m terrible at that,” said the 22-year-old skier, moments after her surprising slalom finish Friday, the shock and disappointment still fresh. In back-to-back days, Shiffrin left everything […]
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Food brands go for gold when Chloe Kim tweets ‘hangry’
Chloe Kim was hangry. The snowboarder hadn’t finished her breakfast and now, halfway through the Olympic halfpipe competition, she was regretting it. So she did what many 17-year-olds might do: She tweeted. “Wish I finished my breakfast sandwich but my stubborn self decided not to and now I’m getting hangry,” she wrote from PyeongChang, South […]
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Mikaela Shiffrin finishes a disappointing fourth in Olympic slalom
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Mikaela Shiffrin makes it all looks so easy sometimes. For the world’s most dominant female ski racer, the trip from the starting gate to the medals podium is a well-trodden path. Friday morning offered a stern reminder for Shiffrin and the world just how difficult this medal pursuit could be, how […]
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Clare Egan places 62nd in Olympic biathlon
Cape Elizabeth native Clare Egan finished 62nd Thursday in the women’s 15-kilometer individual race at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in PyeongChang, South Korea. In an event postponed from Wednesday because of high winds, Egan hit all 10 of her targets from a prone position, but missed three in her first standing stage and one more […]
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Photo Gallery: Mikaela Shiffrin captures Olympic gold in women’s giant slalom
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Mikaela Shiffrin already had waited four years for this moment. A couple of more days didn’t seem to bother her one bit. After windy conditions delayed her ambitious – and perhaps historic – Olympic schedule, Shiffrin finally stepped into a pair of skis Thursday and gave the screaming crowd at Yongpyong […]
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Olympic watching guide: Clare Egan ready for another go-round in biathlon
Cape Elizabeth native Clare Egan gets her second shot at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday with the women’s 15-kilometer individual biathlon race. In her Olympic debut Saturday at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in PyeongChang, South Korea, Egan fell in her first loop of the 7.5K sprint and hit seven of 10 targets on her way […]
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Olympic hockey: U.S. women beat Russian team; Canada is next
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson can’t remember ever scoring twice on the same shift. The three-time Olympian looking for her first gold medal is just happy to give the Americans a bit of a boost. She did it in Olympic record fashion. Lamoureux-Davidson had the fastest back-to-back goals in Olympic history, scoring 6 […]
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17-year-old Chloe Kim soars to halfpipe gold
BONGPYEONG, South Korea — The gold medal had been secured, the desire to eat a breakfast sandwich had been conveyed to the world, and the starburst had been completed. She stood at the top at Pyeongchang Halfpipe and had only one thing left to do, the thing she loved most, the most peaceful thing in […]