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Winter Olympic Sports

Russian Figure skater Valieva disqualified in 2022 Olympic doping case

GENEVA — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified from the 2022 Olympics on Monday, almost two years after the teenager’s doping case caused turmoil at the Beijing Games. The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the ...

2026 Olympics organizers confident they can build bobsled track

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Organizers for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics are convinced that they can build a bobsled track in record time amid a standoff with the International Olympic Committee, which wants an existing foreign venue used instead to cut costs. Italian luger Armin ...

U.S. women’s doubles earns bronze at luge World Championships

ALTENBERG, Germany — The United States doubles team of Chevonne Forgan and Sophie Kirkby won their second career World Championship bronze medal on Saturday, tying the start and track records while doing so. Team USA also brought home a silver medal at the 52nd FIL Luge World ...

USA Luge takes 4th in luge sprint World Championships

ALTENBERG, Germany —The FIL Luge World Championships kicked off the three-day racing weekend with the sprint competitions on Friday. The United States had two close calls with the podium, placing Ashley Farquharson and the duo of Maya Chan/Reannyn Weiler fourth in the women’s singles and ...

Youth Olympic luge under way

GANGWON, South Korea — The 2024 Youth Olympic Winter Games luge events kicked off this past weekend at the Alpensia Sliding Center, the site of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The women’s singles race was the first luge event, followed by the men’s doubles competition on Saturday. ...

USA Luge medals in Junior World Cup

BLUDENZ, Austria — Aidan Muller of West Islip won a bronze medal at the fifth Junior World Cup event this luge season on Friday, and the doubles team of Logan Barnes and Gavin Davis won silver on Thursday. Muller clocked a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 5.462 seconds. Marco Leger of ...