Associated Press

Britain, Sweden To Play For Olympic Men’s Curling Gold

Britain and Sweden will play for the Olympic gold medal in men’s curling. Britain beat the United States 8-4 and Sweden topped Canada 5-3 in the semifinals at the Ice Cube venue in Beijing.
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Valieva Tumbles Out Of The Medals In Olympic Figure Skating

Bing Dwen Dwen stuffed pandas are already in the hands of the top three finishers in the women’s figure skating competition at the Beijing Olympics.
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Shiffrin’s Olympics: 5 Individual Races, No Medals, 3 DNFs

Mikaela Shiffrin skied out in the Alpine combined and once again was unable to finish a race at the Beijing Olympics.
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Riiber-Less Norway Wins Gold In Nordic Combined Team Event

Norway picked up yet another gold in the nordic combined team event.
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Austria Takes Early Lead, United States Settles For Seventh Entering Cross Country

With the cross-country event occurring later this evening, Austria takes the early lead.
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Japan’s Takagi Wins 1000m Speedskating Gold, Brittany Bowe Takes Bronze

The USA takes bronze while Japan secures gold in women's speedskating 1000m final.
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Gisin Wins Back-To-Back Olympic Combined, Shiffrin Out Again

Defending champion Michelle Gisin won her second straight Olympic gold medal in the Alpine combined race.
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Poulin Leads Canada To Olympic Gold In 3-2 Win Over US

Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice and Canada reclaimed its place atop the women's hockey world with a 3-2 win over the defending champion United States at the Beijing Olympics.
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Former Colleague Says Ex-Angels Employee Saw Skaggs Do Drugs

A one-time colleague has testified that former Los Angeles Angels employee Eric Prescott Kay confided that he watched Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs do drugs the night before he was found dead in Texas.
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Wallace Grudgingly Relives 2020 Turmoil In New Netflix Doc

Bubba Wallace revisits his role in the national racial reckoning in an upcoming Netflix documentary.
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Super Bowl Run Excited Fans, But Bengals Still Need Work

The Cincinnati Bengals were expected to have another rebuilding year under coach Zac Taylor.
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Slovakia Stuns US, Americans And Canadians Out Of Olympics

The United States is out of the men’s hockey tournament at the Olympics in stunning fashion after blowing a late lead.
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AP Sources: US Skaters To Get Olympic Torches As Medals Wait

IOC president Thomas Bach offered U.S. figure skaters Olympic torches as holdover gifts while they await a resolution of the Russian doping case preventing them from receiving their silver medals.
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Olympic Athletes On the Best Things They’ve Eaten In The Bubble

Avocado ice cream and boiling hot pots are some of the best foods athletes say they’ve eaten at the Beijing Olympics.
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Ukrainian And Russian Celebrate With Hug At Beijing Olympics

Defending champion Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday and celebrated by getting a hug from Russian skier Ilia Burov at a time of rising tensions between the countries.
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Epic Tricks Lift US Freestyle Skiers To 1-2 Olympic Finish

Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals in slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics.
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Valieva Listed 2 Legal Oxygen Boosters On Olympic Forms

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva listed two legal substances used to improve heart function on an anti-doping control form she filled out before her drug case at the Olympics erupted.
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US Skater Vincent Zhou Out Of Weeklong COVID-19 Quarantine

American figure skater Vincent Zhou is out of quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 at the Beijing Games.
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For Goepper, Another Olympic Medal And Clear Outlook On Life

American freestyle skier Nick Goepper has another Olympic medal and a great outlook to go with it.
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Despite Loosening Rules, Few Women Figure Skaters Pick Pants

Just one figure skater in the Beijing Olympics' marquee women's event wore pants for her short program performance at Capital Indoor Stadium.
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Valieva Case Boosts Drive To Raise Age Limit At Olympics

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to skate at the Olympics in the short program partly because her age gives her extra rights as a “protected person” in a doping case.
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US Olympic Speedskating Coach Back On Ice After Heart Attack

Ryan Shimabukuro still has that deep passion for speedskating.
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China’s Qi Flips His Way To Gold In Aerials, USA Crushed

China wins gold in the men's and women's aerials for the first time at the Winter Olympics.
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French Skier Noel Wins Olympic Slalom, Asa Miller Fails To Advance

BEIJING (AP) — French skier Clement Noel put down a blistering second run to win the slalom at the Beijing Olympics by a large margin. Noel moved up from sixth after the first leg to beat first-run leader Johannes Strolz of Austria by 0.61 seconds after posting the fastest second run. Clement Noel of France […]
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