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Winter Sports

Mikaela Shiffrin goes the extra step to help teammate

Even when she has just nailed a first run, Mikaela Shiffrin is not only thinking about getting the victory. Helping a teammate was on the American...

Olympics
/ 3 months ago

Russia confirms it will appeal 4-year Olympic ban

Russia confirmed Friday that it will appeal its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data. The Russian anti-doping agency, known as...

By Associated Press
Winter Sports
/ 3 months ago

‘I own this track’: Paris feels at home on Stelvio course

Dominik Paris mastered the Stelvio course once again on Friday, becoming the first skier to win three consecutive downhill races on...

By Associated Press
International
/ 3 months ago

Canada beats US 6-4 in world junior hockey opener

Arizona Coyotes forward Barrett Hayton scored twice to help Canada beat the United States 6-4 on Thursday night in their Group...

By Associated Press
More Sports
/ 3 months ago

Plays of the year: 2019 had a flair for the dramatic

Thousands of pro games, hundreds of thousands of college games, millions of high school games and billions of youth-league, rec-league, bar-league...

By Tim Reynolds
More Sports
/ 3 months ago

Stalwart Super Bowl, ascendant Tiger top priciest sports moments of 2019

Football fans hoping to see a pair of Super Bowl tickets under the tree this week will need to be on...

By Amy Tennery
More Sports
/ 3 months ago

Swimming reinvents itself with glitz and cash of pro league

In a darkened arena on the Las Vegas Strip, swimming is being reinvented. Some of the sport’s biggest names are competing...

By Beth Harris
Olympics
/ 4 months ago

New WADA report shows jump in global doping cases

More drug cheats are being caught in global sport with the latest World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) figures on Thursday showing a...

By Steve Keating
Horse Racing
/ 4 months ago

No criminal wrongdoing found in horse deaths at Santa Anita

There was no criminal animal cruelty or unlawful conduct at Southern California’s Santa Anita Park this year despite a spate of...

By Rory Carroll
Olympics
/ 4 months ago

Tokyo 2020 organizers hold earthquake drill at Olympics venue

Tokyo 2020 organizers held an earthquake drill on Thursday at Ariake Gymnastics Centre, a newly built venue for next year’s Olympics,...

By Jack Tarrant