Year: 2022

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — The top-seeded United States will face Slovakia in the quarterfinals of the men’s hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics. Slovakia beat Germany 4-0 to knock the defending silver medalists out of the tournament. The U.S. goes into the knockout round as the only team to win

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Norway has won its second straight Olympic gold medal in men’s team pursuit speedskating. The Japanese women were headed for another gold as well — until one of their skaters crashed on the final turn. The stunning fall by Nana Takagi handed the women’s team pursuit

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — What better way to prepare for an Olympic downhill race than by watching Lindsey Vonn. Swiss skier Corinne Suter checked out some old videos of the sport’s most successful downhiller before her run at the Beijing Games and then went out and won gold. The victory

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Olympic routine for Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor has always been the same. They would arrive, train, compete, win a medal and go home. Such was the case in 2010. And again in 2014. And again in 2018. Not this time. The celebration after

By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — One of sports’ fiercest and longest-running grudge-matches will resume Thursday when the American and Canadian women’s hockey teams faceoff at the Beijing Games with an Olympic gold medal on the line. The game will mark the sixth time out of seven Olympics the cross-border rivals will

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Mathilde Gremaud won the ski slopestyle contest by the slimmest of margins over fan favorite Eileen Gu. The Swiss freestyle skier who squeaked into the slopestyle final by a mere .36 points edged out Gu for the gold medal by an even narrower margin —

By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Around the world, athletes are throwing their support behind political and social causes, part of a wave of sports activism that has flourished in the years since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began taking a knee during games to protest police brutality against Black people.

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — American freestyle halfpipe skier Carly Margulies is on her way to Beijing Olympics after going through not one or two or three but seven knee surgeries. Her latest surgery, the one that landed her on the operating table two months before the Winter Games, also

By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NASCAR was long overdue to revamp its aging, arguably outdated race car. The previous version was an overly engineered, off-the-chart expensive design that had been tweaked, twisted, trimmed and tuned to make it fractionally faster and significantly safer over the past five-plus decades. Driver

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Wyoming has gone from being picked to finish at the bottom of the Mountain West Conference to playing this week with a rare national ranking. The Cowboys are ranked No. 22 this week in the AP Top 25. They’ll play with their first national ranking since 2015 when they

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The NBA’s All-Stars are sharing their stage this weekend in Cleveland. Expanding on its commitment to support historically Black colleges and universities, the league is hosting the inaugural HBCU Classic, a matchup between Morgan State and Howard. The game will bring added exposure and financial funding