Longtime hockey coach and Augusta native Joe Clark has guided the goalie through the mental part of the game since his days in juniors.
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Interest in curling sweeps Maine during Winter Olympics
Clubs in Portland and Belfast aim to welcome new fans of the sport.
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Maine’s Sophia Laukli put Olympics on hold to focus on her health
The Yarmouth native stepped away from the World Cup Nordic tour because after years of pushing herself, she needed a break.
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Fans react after Mainer Nathan Pare disqualified in Olympic snowboard run: ‘It’s a heartbreaker’
Joy turns to despair for Pare’s friends, who had gathered to watch him make his Olympic debut and saw him finish first in a snowboard cross quarterfinal only to have the result nullified.
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Staying the president's hand
The eyes of the world are on South Korea as the 2018 Winter Olympics got underway. While winter winds howled on the ski slopes, a welcoming thaw emerged in North and South Korean relationships. Their teams entered the Opening Ceremony under one flag; the women’s hockey teams played as one; and Moon Jae In, president […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Got snow? Go Backwoods
The other night, Shopping Siren had an epiphany while watching the Olympic Winter Games. Snowboarding is fun. I know a lot of people feel that way. But I have always been of the opinion that strapping your feet to a board and hurling yourself down a mountain is a scary/dangerous/generally bad idea — when you […]
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Clare Egan shoots clean in Olympic biathlon
Cape Elizabeth native Clare Egan turned in her best performance of the Olympic Winter Games with a perfect 10-for-10 shooting in the women’s 4-by-6-kilometer biathlon relay Thursday night at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in PyeongChang, South Korea. Skiing the second leg, Egan kept the United States in medal contention at fourth place, only 16.8 seconds […]
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Doping scandal rocks Olympic curling — yes, curling
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — The news of Alexander Krushelnitsky’s banishment spread fast Sunday night, bouncing from one athlete and official to the next. It came as a shock in some corners and a sad fulfillment of expectation in others. The process of sharing updates of a failed drug test has become commonplace at the Olympics, […]
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Mikaela Shiffrin admits she felt the pressure — from herself
? PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Racing is the fun part. Losing is the hard part. And moving on? For Mikaela Shiffrin, that often feels like the impossible part. “I’m terrible at that,” said the 22-year-old skier, moments after her surprising slalom finish Friday, the shock and disappointment still fresh. In back-to-back days, Shiffrin left everything […]
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Food brands go for gold when Chloe Kim tweets ‘hangry’
Chloe Kim was hangry. The snowboarder hadn’t finished her breakfast and now, halfway through the Olympic halfpipe competition, she was regretting it. So she did what many 17-year-olds might do: She tweeted. “Wish I finished my breakfast sandwich but my stubborn self decided not to and now I’m getting hangry,” she wrote from PyeongChang, South […]