The eyes of the world are on South Korea as the 2018 Winter Olympics got underway. While winter winds howled on the ski slopes, a welcoming thaw emerged in North and South Korean relationships. Their teams entered the Opening Ceremony under one flag; the women’s hockey teams played as one; and Moon Jae In, president […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Got snow? Go Backwoods
The other night, Shopping Siren had an epiphany while watching the Olympic Winter Games. Snowboarding is fun. I know a lot of people feel that way. But I have always been of the opinion that strapping your feet to a board and hurling yourself down a mountain is a scary/dangerous/generally bad idea — when you […]
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Clare Egan shoots clean in Olympic biathlon
Cape Elizabeth native Clare Egan turned in her best performance of the Olympic Winter Games with a perfect 10-for-10 shooting in the women’s 4-by-6-kilometer biathlon relay Thursday night at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in PyeongChang, South Korea. Skiing the second leg, Egan kept the United States in medal contention at fourth place, only 16.8 seconds […]
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Doping scandal rocks Olympic curling — yes, curling
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — The news of Alexander Krushelnitsky’s banishment spread fast Sunday night, bouncing from one athlete and official to the next. It came as a shock in some corners and a sad fulfillment of expectation in others. The process of sharing updates of a failed drug test has become commonplace at the Olympics, […]
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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 […]