By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — As talented and deep as the Americans appear to be, coach John Wroblewski wasn't ready to accept his team being considered the favorite a day before the women's hockey tournament opens at the Milan Cortina Games. After initially sidestepping ...
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VARESE, Italy (AP) — Freestyle skier and Olympic silver medalist Jaelin Kauf's first stop Wednesday for the Milan Cortina Winter Games was at a Milan airport hotel. She and her U.S. teammates were giddy as tailors fitted them with their Ralph Lauren ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers MILAN (AP) — Workers in hard hats and orange vests scurried around behind the scenes Wednesday inside the freshly built main hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Olympics. On the concourse less than 24 hours before doors open to fans, ...
By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — There won't be any delayed Olympic celebrations this time for U.S. moguls star Jaelin Kauf. Her family is here in Italy to cheer on Kauf at the Milan Cortina Games. Because of COVID-19 restrictions four years ago in Beijing, they had to stay home ...
BORMIO, Italy (AP) — American skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle was fastest in the opening downhill training session of the Milan Cortina Games on Wednesday but another racer had to be airlifted off the fearsome Stelvio slope. Cochran-Siegle was 0.16 seconds faster than the young Italian Giovanni ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn needed to use a crutch to get around over the weekend. Now she's performing box jumps, working out in a pool while wearing a weighted vest and skiing at high speed. No wonder the 41-year-old American is so optimistic that she can compete in the ...
By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Finland's national women's hockey team canceled practice Wednesday due to a stomach illness affecting at least four players, a team spokesman confirmed to The Associated Press. "We're reviewing a difficult situation," Henna Malmberg said a day ...
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — With the race to host the 2036 Olympics on hold, the IOC gave its clearest signs yet Wednesday how it will decide with more transparency a contest India and Qatar crave to win. More than 100 International Olympic Committee members got ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ongoing snowfall forced Milan Cortina Games organizers to cancel the opening women's downhill training session scheduled for Thursday. Some 7 inches (20 centimeters) have fallen on the Olympia delle Tofane course this week and the white stuff was still coming ...
MILAN (AP) — The Winter Olympics are a land of snow and frozen water — no "ice," though, at least not at the hospitality house being hosted by U.S. sports teams in Milan for the Games. The Ice House has been officially renamed the Winter House, in a nod to the tension surrounding the U.S. ...
By The Associated Press The start of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy is days away. The torch relay is nearly complete and some of the top athletes are already making headlines. There are 16 sports in all, including some never seen before, and 116 gold medals are waiting to be ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Hockey was not televised, at least not for free, in France when Pierre-Edouard Bellemare was growing up there. The rare chance he got to watch the sport he loved came every four years at the Olympics. "I was born into this Olympic family ...
By JOSEPH WILSON and EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writers LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A backside double cork 1080! Followed by a cab triple cork 1440! Holy Crail, that was a sweet grab! The snowboarders and freestyle skiers will be speaking a language all their own as they "shred some gnar" (ride some ...
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — It's the message no figure skater wants to get. At any time, an email could block them from using the music they've built their Olympic programs around. As the skating world grapples with a music standoff involving the lovable, ...
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Staging future Winter Games as early as January and the Paralympic Winter Games in February is a possibility because of the effects of warmer temperatures, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday. Every Winter Games medal was won ...
By EDDIE PELLS and STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writers In some ways, the goals Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris set for the Milan Cortina Olympics are the same ones he set in his three previous appearances at the Games. "Landing when it matters, landing how I want to, landing my hardest ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as "the most gender-balanced in history." That's reflected in, and helped by, ...
By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Lindsey Vonn's decision to compete in Alpine skiing at the Milan Cortina Olympics, despite a torn ACL, is risky but not unexpected, experts in orthopedics and sports medicine said. "It's not unusual for any elite athlete. People will push through with ...