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April 16, 2024

Olympics

  • Las Vegas Aces guard Kelsey Plum (10) listens in a time out during a WNBA basketball game at the Mandalay Bay Events Center Tuesday, July 23, 2019.

    Las Vegas Aces’ Kelsey Plum makes U.S. Olympic 3x3 basketball team

    June 23, 2021

    By Doug Feinberg, Associated Press

    Kelsey Plum, Stefanie Dolson, Allisha Gray and Katie Lou Samuelson, who helped the United States qualify for the inaugural 3x3 Olympic competition in women's basketball, will represent the U.S. at the ...

  • USA Basketball sets plan for Olympic camps in Las Vegas

    June 10, 2021

    By Tim Reynolds, Associated Press

    For USA Basketball, the last stop before the Tokyo Olympics will be Las Vegas. The men’s and women’s national teams will hold training camps in Las Vegas in July, they announced Thursday, and they’ll be playing seven ...

  • The first lady Kim Jung-sook, left, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, IOC president Thomas Bach, North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam and Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, greet players after the preliminary round of the women's hockey game between Switzerland and the combined Koreas at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018.

    As Olympics wrap up, still no coverage in North Korea

    February 24, 2018

    By Eric Talmadge, Associated Press

    While hundreds of millions of the world's people get ready to watch the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday, North Koreans are still waiting to see the first event.

  • Mikaela Shiffrin, of the United States, attacks the gate during the second run of the Women's Giant Slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018.

    Delays done, Shiffrin wins Olympic GS gold; best event next

    February 15, 2018

    By Howard Fendrich, Associated Press

    The nervous energy accumulated for Mikaela Shiffrin while she waited, waited, waited for these Olympics — the ones that so many are expecting to be HER Olympics — to finally get started. First one race was postponed. Then another. And so it was not until a week into the Pyeongchang Games that ...

  • Johannes Thingnes Boe, of Norway, reacts to his time in the finish area during the men's 20-kilometer individual biathlon at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018.

    Boe takes biathlon gold after Fourcade’s stunning collapse

    February 15, 2018

    By Steve Reed, Associated Press

    Martin Fourcade's rare collapse on the final shoot of the 20-kilometer individual race handed Norwegian rival Johannes Thingnes Boe his first Olympic gold medal in biathlon on Thursday. Fourcade, the world's top-ranked biathlete and already a gold medalist at the Pyeongchang Games, shockingly missed ...

  • Canada wins 1st Olympic gold in curling mixed doubles

    February 13, 2018

    By Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press

    With a triumphant hug and fist pump, Canada won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in curling mixed doubles, beating Switzerland 10-3 on ...

  • Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson (17), of the United States, celebrates her second goal against the team from Russia with Kelly Pannek (12) during the second period of the preliminary round of the women's hockey game at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018.

    U.S. women beat Russia 5-0, early showdown with Canada next

    February 13, 2018

    By Teresa M. Walker, Associated Press

    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 ...

  • Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, of Norway, celebrates after winning the men's cross-country skiing sprint classic at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018.

    Favorites Klaebo, Nilsson handle pressure, win Olympic gold

    February 13, 2018

    By Steve Reed, Associated Press

    Being the best sometimes just makes the pressure even greater. That was true for both Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Stina Nilsson, who came into the Pyeongchang Olympics as the favorites in the cross-country skiing sprints. They seem to have handled it just fine, though, and they both ...

  • Canada’s Kingsbury storms to gold in men’s moguls

    February 12, 2018

    By Will Graves, Associated Press

    Mikael Kingsbury kept trying to convince himself the Olympics were just another event. That his legacy as one of the greatest moguls skiers ever ...

  • Jamie Anderson, of the United States, jumps during the women's slopestyle final at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Canada gets skating gold, American Anderson wins slopestyle

    February 12, 2018

    By Dennis Waszak Jr., Associated Press

    Canada skated to the gold it had been dreaming about for four years. American Jamie Anderson got another to match the one she won in Sochi. The Canadians kicked off the third day of full competition at ...

  • Brittany Bowe of the U.S. competes during the women's 1,500 meters speedskating race at the Gangneung Oval at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018.

    U.S. speedskaters off to another slow start at Olympics

    February 12, 2018

    By Beth Harris, Associated Press

    Three events into the Olympic speedskating competition and the Americans remain off the podium. The latest setback came Monday night when world champion Heather Bergsma finished eighth in the 1,500 meters. Brittany Bowe had the highest ...

  • NBC apologizes to South Koreans for analyst’s remark

    February 11, 2018

    By David Bauder, Associated Press

    NBC has apologized to South Koreans for an on-air remark by an analyst that cited Japan as an example that has been important to the country's own transformation. The remark was made by analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo during ...

  • Olympic athletes march into Blyth Arena, at Squaw Valley, Calif., on Feb. 28, 1960, for the ceremony to end the VIII Winter Olympic Games. Instead of marching in units according to their nationalities, they all intermingled with friends they had made during the games. In the background is the Tower of nations and the Olympic Torch.

    New exhibit celebrates 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Tahoe

    January 16, 2018

    Associated Press

    Weeks ahead of the opening of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea, the El Dorado Arts Council has opened a new exhibition celebrating the ...

  • Mikaela Shiffrin, of the United States, celebrates her gold medal in the women's slalom Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, at the alpine skiing World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

    US ski team leans on superstars for medals ahead of Olympics

    February 19, 2017

    By Graham Dunbar, Associated Press

    Dressed as comic book superheroes, American skiers were often merely mortal at the last world championships before the 2018 Olympics. A tally of three medals — one of each color, all won by female superstars — surely did not rise above expectations from an 11-event program that ended Sunday in the sun-soaked Swiss Alps. Still, each medal performance was impressive and seems repeatable at the Pyeongchang Winter Games next February ...