Lindsey Vonn suffered a heavy fall during her last downhill race before the Winter Olympics on Friday and was airlifted from the slope for precautionary medical checks — a worrying development just days before the Milan Cortina Games. The 41-year-old American skiing icon crashed during a World Cup event in Crans-Montana, marking her third crash…
SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) — Henrik Kristoffersen ended his wait of nearly 11 months for another World Cup win on Wednesday, triumphing in the last slalom before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. Racing under the floodlights, Kristoffersen beat his Norwegian teammate and first-run leader Atle Lie McGrath by 0.34 seconds with an all-attacking, wild final run….
Jan 24 (Reuters) – Norwegian Sander Eitrem shattered the men’s 5,000 meters world record at the Speed Skating World Cup in Inzell, Germany, on Saturday, winning the event in five minutes 58.52 seconds and becoming the first to skate the distance in under six minutes. The previous record of 6:00.23 was set in November by…
MILAN (AP) — Olympic organizers are “100%” confident the NHL won’t pull out of the Milan Cortina Games with the new ice hockey arena finally ready. Or almost. construction delays and other concerns about the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena have drawn headlines for weeks ahead of the NHL returning to the Winter Olympics for the…
