ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) – A day after a stunning confession on live television that he had cheated on his girlfriend, Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid on Wednesday said he regrets going public with his private life at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) – Chinese snowboarder Liu Jiayu took a scary fall in Olympic halfpipe qualifying Wednesday and had to be carried off on a stretcher after landing hard on her left arm and shoulder, slamming her face and stomach to the ground then bending backward and somersaulting through the bottom of the pipe.
ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) – Julia Simon became the first Frenchwoman to win an Olympic gold medal in the women’s 15-kilometer individual biathlon race and teammate Lou Jeanmonnot took silver at the the Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday.
MILAN (AP) – Martin Fehervary was still catching his breath. Fresh off the ice from playing in the first men’s hockey game at the Milan Cortina Olympics, he knew he wasn’t in North America anymore.
MILAN (AP) – Juraj Slafkovsky had Slovakia’s only two goals four years ago in the first men’s hockey game at the Beijing Olympics, a convincing loss to Finland.
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) – Some saw it as a ground-breaking moment for transgender athletes when freestyle skier Elis Lundholm competed at the Winter Olympics.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) – For Italy, it was a double-gold night in doubles luge. And USA Luge made history, just not the kind the Americans have been waiting forever to enjoy.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) – Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhofer hadn’t won a race this season on the World Cup circuit. They weren’t even contenders in many of them.
TESERO, Italy (AP) – Competitors find it hard to fault Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo because he has it all: Technique, tactics, power and speed.
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