Tag: Winter Olympics
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Mark Kiszla: It was in Brock Nelson’s DNA to bring Olympic hockey gold back home to the USA
MILAN – This was no hockey miracle. It was the destiny of the biggest little hockey town in the USA. Forty-six years to the exact date of the Miracle on Ice, the United States scored a 2-1 overtime victory against Canada to mint a new generation of American hockey heroes in 24-karat Olympic gold. …
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Mark Kiszla: Breakfast Brawl between USA and Canada for gold medal is dumbest great idea in NHL history
MILAN – Decades from now, grizzled old puckheads in the United States and Canada will still be telling tall tales about a hockey showdown destined to go down in history as the Breakfast Brawl. Set your alarm clock, pour a beer and buckle up. The Yanks versus the Canucks, with Connor McDavid facing off against…
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Mark Kiszla: With gold medal on line, Nathan MacKinnon is a bad guy for one day
MILAN – All the pain that puddled in the corners of Artturi Lehkonen’s eyes revealed something beautiful and true. Hockey at the Olympics brings out a passion in a man that the NHL cannot fully understand. Blowing a two-goal lead Friday in a 3-2 loss to Canada that wrecked the gold medal dream of Lehkonen…
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Mark Kiszla: In final act of hockey heroism, Captain America saves day for USA in win worth weight in gold
MILAN — Two minutes from being pushed from the ice into retirement, Captain America refused to go quietly and made the loudest play of her hockey life. Down a goal to Canada with the third period of the Olympic gold-medal match slip-sliding away, U.S. captain Hilary Knight scored when teammates needed her most. OK, so…
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Mark Kiszla: Could Olympic excess kill what makes Cortina special?
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – As the lights of the old ski jump hill from the 1956 Olympics shine through his kitchen window, Italian mountain climber Mario Dibona pours a beer and gently places his prized possession on the table. “Gruppo Scoiattoli,” Dibona tells me on a starry winter night, speaking in the reverent tone of…
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Mark Kiszla: Why Mikaela Shiffrin and Ilia Malinin are the accidental heroes of Winter Olympics
CORTINA d’AMPEZZIO, Italy – The real big shocker of these Winter Games is how skier Mikaela Shiffrin and skater Ilia Malinin have become accidental American heroes. Through the pain of their very public Olympic suffering, they’ve taught mere mortals like you and me a valuable lesson: Choke happens. If the pressure can get to Shiffrin…
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Mark Kiszla: How best little hockey town in USA made it Brock Nelson’s destiny to play in Winter Olympics
MILAN – The river is frozen hard as granite in the real Hockeytown, USA, where the wind chill out on Muskeg Bay is: Don’t ask. But inside the Nomad Tavern – where if the piping-hot pizza doesn’t warm the cockles of your heart, a shot of Fireball might do the trick – there’s a Winter Olympics…
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Kickin’ It with Kiz: Was Buffs legend Christian Fauria wrong to pancake Coach Prime with criticism?
Hey, Kiz! I know you’re at the Winter Olympics in Italy. But did you see former CU Buffs football star Christian Fauria unload on Coach Prime with criticism? Just want to say: Thumbs up to Mr. Fauria! – J.G., honeymoon’s over Kiz: Welp, that was a bruising pancake block Fauria put on Deion Sanders. Fauria,…
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Mark Kiszla: ‘Quad God’ trips over his Olympic hype, takes tumble off medal stand
MILAN – The “Quad God” crashed to earth with an icky thump. How the heck did that happen? “I blew it,” U.S. figure skater Ilia Malinin said Friday. He not only failed to win gold that had been deemed a foregone conclusion, but tumbled off the medal stand and plummeted all the way to eighth…
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Mark Kiszla: Elizabeth Lemley appears from thin Colorado air to be Olympic hero nobody saw coming
MILAN — Whether in an airplane or on skis, Elizabeth Lemley digs flying upside down. What’s the crazy appeal to her? A big shot of adrenaline, Lemley will tell you, before adding: “I love the risk.” Every Olympics needs a “Rocky” story. An underdog counted out. A champion of the peeps. This one comes straight…