Tag: Winter Olympics
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Mark Kiszla: Free Bird! U.S. women flying high after 5-0 win over bitter hockey rival
MILAN – Holy schnikes! Team USA knocked the ever-loving poutine out of Canada, eh? I went to the hockey version of a border war on Tuesday night, and a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert broke out. Free Bird! That’s the classic rock song the arena DJ plays every time a U.S. woman scores a goal in the…
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Mark Kiszla: Mikaela Shiffrin again wearing thorny GOAT horns of doubt at Olympics
MILAN — She’s the GOAT who chokes on Olympic slopes. Mikaela Shiffrin was painfully reminded it’s nearly impossible to ski with a nervous heart in your throat and the five Olympic rings shackled tightly around your boots. In a new event that seemed invented for her benefit, presenting a golden opportunity to cure a wicked…
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Lindsey Vonn says she has complex tibia fracture requiring multiple surgeries after Olympic crash
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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn sustained a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly” after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill, the skier said in a social media post late Monday. Vonn posted on Instagram about her left leg injuries following her fall in…
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Mark Kiszla: How Colorado skier got caught in crossfire of U.S. culture wars over the Olympics
MILAN — If mudslinging ever becomes an Olympic sport, the United States will certainly win gold, silver and bronze. The vitriol has gone viral in a media-fueled debate about what it means for an athlete to be a true American patriot at the Winter Games. Pressed for his nonsports opinions, a 23-year-old skier from Winter…
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Colorado Avalanche own the Winter Olympics with eight proud players set to represent their countries
NHL players fought to return to the Winter Olympics. This week, they’ll get their wish. And the Colorado Avalanche will be well represented. Eight members of the burgundy and blue have landed in Milan with the honor of representing their respective countries when the tournament gets underway Wednesday. It’s a new stage for all but…
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Mark Kiszla: The mountain doesn’t care. It laughed at skier Lindsey Vonn’s plans for a fairy-tale ending in Italy.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Every ski racer has a plan until the mountain wrecks ’em at 60 mph. American downhiller Breezy Johnson was sizzling Sunday, screaming down the mountain to win a gold medal. But what will leave the impossible-to-erase marks on our memory from this race are the agonizing shrieks from teammate Lindsey Vonn,…
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Mark Kiszla: Why Mikaela Shiffrin won’t be a klutz in the clutch at the Olympics this time
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Mikaela Shiffrin showed up at the Olympics, rocking and ready for her close-up in front of the whole wide world, then promptly got rudely photobombed by a total klutz. Damn, girl. Can you say em-bar-rass-ing? The 30-year-old Colorado native is the greatest skier since the invention of snow … except when…
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Mark Kiszla: How little hug between U.S. hockey hero and toddler gave Olympics its first big goosebumps moment
MILAN — The big, beautiful, goosebump-inducing noise of the Olympics can be as quiet as the rhythmic breathing of a toddler napping on a hockey hero’s shoulder. Unable to wait until the Opening Ceremony, the Winter Games got a 24-hour head start at becoming a rip-roaring party, as the U.S. women’s team rocked Czechia 5-1…
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Mark Kiszla: In a nation divided, can Olympics give love for the U-S-A a chance?
MILAN, Italy — Is it hopelessly naive to think five Olympic rings can bind 345 million American hearts in our bickering nation? When we stand to shout U-S-A! during the Winter Games, can it unite us in red, white and blue pride, or does the chant now ring hollow? “I’m incredibly proud to be here…
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Mark Kiszla: Lindsey Vonn’s idea of fun? Skiing 80 mph at Olympics on a shredded knee
MILAN, Italy — With a ghost in her ear and no fear in her heart, Lindsey Vonn is hellbent on fulfilling a dream that would sound like an absolute nightmare to most any other 41-year-old woman on the planet. Skiing down a mountain at 80 mph? That’s crazy. But doing it on a trashed knee…