Month: February 2022

By KELVIN CHAN, CANDICE CHOI and AARON MORRISON Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Football, video games and dress-up are just some of the ways athletes at the Beijing Olympics are keeping busy when they’re not competing. As part of the strict COVID-19 protocols, athletes and others at the Games can only move between select sites

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl took place at the same time for the first time. That created a big day for NBC. The network televised both. It also sent athletes in China scrambling to find ways to watch. The time change meant the game

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH and GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writers BEIJING (AP) — Russian teenager Kamila Valieva has been cleared to compete in the women’s figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics despite failing a pre-Games drug test. The Court of Arbitration for Sport released its ruling less than 12 hours after a hastily arranged hearing

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — After Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s fate is determined at the Olympics, legal trouble for her coach and others in her orbit could emerge in the United States. Though the episode doesn’t appear to have much to do with the U.S., the case falls under

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin and other Alpine skiers at the Beijing Olympics get help from coaches and teammates who offer course reports before races. Those reports are usually given via two-way radios and offer a mix of information and motivation. Racers can get insights into the speed of

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Skiers skidding into safety nets. Snowboarders eating it on the halfpipe. Speedskaters crashing into the barriers — and each other.  When Winter Olympians talk about losing their edge, they often mean the literal edge of a skate, a ski or a snowboard. That sharpened strip can