These athletes with Maine ties will compete in the Winter Olympics. Troy Murphy Hometown: Bethel Event: Moguls skiing Age: 25 Personal: 2014 FIS Rookie of the Year; 2015 national champ; 2017, ranked sixth in the world after six Top 10 finishes; attended Gould Academy (2010); lives in Park City, Utah. Outlook: Murphy entered the season as the top-ranked U.S. moguls […]
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Olympic watching guide: Who is competing Thursday
NBC paid nearly $1 billion for broadcast rights, and events will be shown on the parent network as well as NBC Sports Network, CNBC, USA and the Olympic Channel. Live-streaming of all events is available at NBCOlympics.com or via the NBC app. There is a 14-hour time difference. Events listed here are those shown on […]
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Olympic officials try to contain norovirus outbreak
The Olympic organizing committee says another 42 cases of norovirus have been reported at the Olympics, bringing the total to 128 in the past week. Most of the cases, 97 in all, are people staying at a youth center in Pyeongchang that housed security personnel for the games. About 1,200 people there were sequestered, forcing […]
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Olympics: Erin Hamlin to carry U.S. flag; speedskater rips selection process
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — It was a feel-good story for a few hours: Luge veteran Erin Hamlin gets the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the U.S. flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes. And then Shani Davis tweeted. […]
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Community came together to get Troy Murphy from Bethel to the Olympics
BETHEL — On a September evening in 2010, Matt Murphy sat down with Woody Hughes at the bar in the Mill Hill Inn. Hughes had just opened the inn and was enjoying a quiet night with an old friend. At some point, they got to talking about Murphy’s son Troy, who was pursuing a berth […]
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2018 Winter Olympics TV schedule and highlights
More than 90 countries will send roughly 2,900 athletes to compete in the PyeongChang Olympics. There are 102 events – most in Olympic history – including four making their debuts: big air snowboarding, mass start speedskating, mixed doubles curling and a mixed team event in Alpine skiing. Two-hundred forty-three athletes will represent the United States. […]
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Olympics FAQ: What you need to know about the winter games
?? Q: When do the Games begin? A: Competition gets underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Thursday, but the official start is Friday, with the opening ceremony. In the United States, the first event actually begins at 7:05 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday. Q: Who participates? A: More than 90 countries will send roughly 2,900 athletes […]
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Siblings team up for new Olympic curling event
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — A pair of siblings from McFarland, Wisconsin, is set to make their Olympic debut on Thursday in the mixed doubles event in curling – one of four disciplines to be newly introduced at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Matt Hamilton encouraged his younger sister Becca to start curling when they were both […]
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Against a tense backdrop, let the Games begin
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — On the one hand: The world gathers for a scripted, globalized spectacle of competition and unity. North Korean athletes and performers stream into the rival South for a display of cooperation that maybe, just maybe, could ease anxiety about possible nuclear war. The North’s head of state announces plans to […]
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Skaters Nathan Chen and Adam Rippon took different roads to the Olympics
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Nathan Chen was an 11-year-old figure skating phenom when he came to work with coach Rafael Arutyunyan. Adam Rippon, by contrast, enlisted Arutyunyan’s help at 22, wondering whether his best results were behind him as he struggled to reach the podium after winning back-to-back junior world championships as a teenager. So […]