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Winter Olympic Sports

Bobsled, skeleton resumes World Cup sliding

ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND — Team USA resumed the World Cup circuit in this past weekend with three days of racing in the Swiss Alps. On Friday, the action started on a high note with Katie Uhlaender of Breckenridge, Colorado, securing a third-place finish in women’s skeleton with her ...

Forgan and Kirkby take bronze in Igls World Cup

INNSBRUCK, Austria — For the fourth consecutive World Cup event, USA Luge had athletes standing on the podium. Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby won the bronze in the women’s doubles competition in Innsbruck, Austria — the home of the 1964 and 1976 Olympic Winter Games. Ashley ...

Team USA prepares for sliding at upcoming Youth Olympic Games

LAKE PLACID — Six USA Bobsled and Skeleton athletes including John Lansing from Lake Placid, will represent their country at the fourth Winter Youth Olympic Games in the province of Gangwon in the Republic of Korea, the site of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. This will be the first Youth ...

Women’s biathlon relay team finish 11th in Germany

After a delayed start to the race weekend in Oberhof, Germany, with rain and strong winds creating challenging conditions for the athletes, the U.S. Biathlon Team was able to pull off clean shooting, pursuit qualifications and strong relay performances. In the opening sprint race in ...

USA learns earns World Cup bronze in Winterberg team relay

WINTERBERG, Germany — For the second time in as many races, Team USA earned a bronze medal in the FIL Luge World Cup relay, concluding the weekend of competitions in Winterberg. The United States squad consisted of 2022 Olympians Ashley Farquharson, Zack DiGregorio and Sean Hollander, ...

Six biathletes qualify for IBU Cup Pursuit

Lina Farra, an athlete with the New York Ski Educational Foundation, raced to a personal best 46th place in the women’s 7.5K sprint, her second race of the weekend at the IBU Cup in Martell-Val Martello, Italy. Farra, of Heber City, Utah, cleaned both her prone and standing shoots, avoiding ...