GENEVA — Hitting back at the president of his sport’s governing body, Swiss skier Daniel Yule will give his prize money this month to an athlete-backed charity campaigning against climate change. The Olympic gold medalist said Monday he is “putting my money where my mouth is” ...
If Devin Logan has her way, she’ll be the first and last to serve this sort of doping ban. The 2014 Olympic silver medalist is in the final week of a three-month suspension, announced Friday, for using a cannabis-based product she says contained higher-than-allowed levels of the banned ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A beer with your urine sample? No longer in Russian sports. Citing “aggressive” athletes and interference with drug-testing results, Russia has barred sportspeople from drinking alcohol when they’re tested for banned substances. A post-race beer might help a ...
PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith’s College hopes to capitalize on the 2023 Winter World University Games as it looks to make itself a school for student-athletes. The Universiade, as the World University Games are known, is an international Olympic-style event for university student athletes. ...
GENEVA — In ongoing fallout of faulty finish-line timing, a women’s World Cup downhill result was altered on Tuesday three days after the race, forcing two podium places to be changed. The International Ski Federation said reassessing problems with Swiss Timing’s system on Saturday ...
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — At the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, USA Luge’s Summer Britcher ended the World Cup season Sunday in third place in the overall tour standings for the second consecutive season. Among American women, the back-to-back achievements are second only to Cameron ...
The only sure way to beat Mikaela Shiffrin these days is to have her not show up. And that’s about to be the case. A worn out and under-the-weather Shiffrin will temporarily apply the brakes on her splendid season in order to take a much-needed breather. The way she’s racing, ...
BANSKO, Bulgaria (AP) — Alexis Pinturault added the season-long World Cup title in Alpine combined Friday to the world championship title he won 11 days ago. The Frenchman won the discipline’s season-ending race after his main rival, Marco Schwarz of Austria, picked up an injury in the ...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin wrapped up the season-long slalom World Cup title Tuesday, three days after winning her record fourth straight world title in the discipline. And she matched yet another record in the process. Shiffrin won a parallel city event, defeating Christina Geiger ...
LAKE PLACID — A year ago, young Tiago Cusano was at home in Florida watching the Winter Olympics on television while recovering from a cancer surgery that was followed by two and a half months of radiation treatment. This past weekend, on a trip sponsored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, ...
OBERHOF, Germany — USA Luge ended its international youth and junior seasons last weekend on Oberhof’s throwback course that brought back memories of days when the sliding tracks were separate. Traditionally, German athletes have dominated races here due to their access to the track’s ...
LAKE PLACID — Canada’s Justin Kripps drove to a four-man bobsled World Cup gold medal in dramatic fashion Saturday, and in the same race, an athlete who grew up in the North Country also came through with a memorable performance on his home track. In a race that saw first-run leader ...
ARE, Sweden — Maybe Alpine skiing won’t be so lost without Lindsey Vonn and Aksel Lund Svindal after all. One week after Vonn and Svindal retired by claiming medals in their final races, Mikaela Shiffrin and Marcel Hirscher both showed true grit by fighting through debilitating ...
LAKE PLACID — As one of the best and most experienced women’s bobsled drivers on the planet, Elana Meyers Taylor wanted nothing else more than winning on her home track when the World Cup tour made a stop in Lake Placid on Friday. The American veteran got her wish, topping the field ...
LAKE PLACID — A medal drought that lasted for more than two years for the United States on the World Cup skeleton tour ended Friday, thanks to Kendall Wesenberg. At the next-to-last World Cup stop of the season, Wesenberg captured the bronze medal in the two-heat women’s skeleton ...
LAKE PLACID — Eight-year-old Tiago Cusano of Miami, Florida, has never seen snow, but the native Floridian developed a fascination for bobsledding while watching the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics during an extended hospitalization for cancer treatment. When Cusano was notified that he was ...
LAKE PLACID — Elana Meyers Taylor is excited for the opportunity to battle the Europeans on home ice. Brittany Reinbolt is happy not to be sitting inside in an office. And Hunter Church is thrilled to have the chance to drive his “bus” not far away from where he grew up. This ...
LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority plans to start upgrading multiple winter sports venues this summer. In the past two years, ORDA has received $80 million in state money for capital improvements to winter sports venues it runs. Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...
LAKE PLACID — Stories of 2019 International Children’s Winter Games in Lake Placid will air on Teen Kids News at 9 a.m. Saturday on WPTZ-TV, NBC 5. Recently, Lake Placid hosted the first ever winter ICG in the United States, where more than 400 student-athletes from 33 different cities ...
ARE, Sweden — During her inexorable rise to someday becoming the most successful Alpine skier in history, Mikaela Shiffrin has been shooting some admiring glances at another young female athlete excelling at her chosen sport. And she, too, is emerging from the shadow of an all-time ...